diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 20c978dd42..f13137425e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Tue Nov 18 19:05:04 2003  Minero Aoki  <aamine@loveruby.net>
+
+	* lib/fileutils.rb (fu_same?): check by inode instead of path
+	  name, to detect two hard links pointing to the same content.
+
+	* test/fileutils.rb: did not create correctly looped symlinks.
+
 Tue Nov 18 18:23:05 2003  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nakada@nifty.ne.jp>
 
 	* ext/stringio/stringio.c (strio_read): behave as IO at empty string.
diff --git a/lib/fileutils.rb b/lib/fileutils.rb
index 94a8f5e939..9b50aec919 100644
--- a/lib/fileutils.rb
+++ b/lib/fileutils.rb
@@ -739,35 +739,9 @@ module FileUtils
   end
 
   def fu_same?( a, b )
-    fu_resolve_symlink(a) == fu_resolve_symlink(b)
-  end
-
-  def fu_resolve_symlink( path, limit = 128 )
-    raise Errno::ELOOP, "too many levels of symlic links: #{path}" if limit < 0
-    if File.symlink?(path)
-    then fu_resolve_symlink(fu_readlink(File.expand_path(path)), limit-1)
-    else path
-    end
-  end
-
-  def fu_readlink( path )
-    dest = File.readlink(path)
-    if absolute_path?(dest)
-    then dest
-    else File.dirname(File.expand_path(path)) + '/' + dest
-    path = File.readlink(path)
-    end
-  end
-
-  def absolute_path?( path )
-    if have_drive_letter?
-    then %r<\A([a-z]:)?/> === path
-    else %r<\A/> === path
-    end
-  end
-
-  def have_drive_letter?
-    File::ALT_SEPARATOR ? true : false
+    File.stat(a).ino == File.stat(b).ino
+  rescue Errno::ENOENT
+    return false
   end
 
   def fu_stream_blksize( *streams )
diff --git a/test/fileutils/test_fileutils.rb b/test/fileutils/test_fileutils.rb
index 922c065919..d5357ca4c9 100644
--- a/test/fileutils/test_fileutils.rb
+++ b/test/fileutils/test_fileutils.rb
@@ -149,11 +149,11 @@ end
       cp 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp'
     }
 if have_symlink?
-    File.symlink 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
+    File.symlink 'cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
     assert_raises(ArgumentError) {
       cp 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
     }
-    File.symlink 'tmp/symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
+    File.symlink 'symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
     assert_raises(Errno::ELOOP) {
       cp 'tmp/symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
     }
@@ -180,11 +180,11 @@ end
       mv 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp'
     }
 if have_symlink?
-    File.symlink 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
+    File.symlink 'cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
     assert_raises(ArgumentError) {
       mv 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
     }
-    File.symlink 'tmp/symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
+    File.symlink 'symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
     assert_raises(Errno::ELOOP) {
       mv 'tmp/symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
     }
@@ -412,11 +412,11 @@ end
       install 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp'
     }
 if have_symlink?
-    File.symlink 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
+    File.symlink 'cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
     assert_raises(ArgumentError) {
       install 'tmp/cptmp', 'tmp/cptmp_symlink'
     }
-    File.symlink 'tmp/symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
+    File.symlink 'symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
     assert_raises(Errno::ELOOP) {
       install 'tmp/symlink', 'tmp/symlink'
     }