diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f70050f96f..f4ff959c60 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-Wed Feb 18 15:33:51 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+Wed Feb 18 15:35:36 2009  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* file.c (rb_file_chown): use chown unless HAVE_FCHOWN.
 
 	* io.c (pipe_open): sarg is always used unless HAVE_FORK.
 
diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 69c0c681a3..c0e9e8a77e 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -1998,7 +1998,7 @@ rb_file_chown(VALUE obj, VALUE owner, VALUE group)
     o = NIL_P(owner) ? -1 : NUM2INT(owner);
     g = NIL_P(group) ? -1 : NUM2INT(group);
     GetOpenFile(obj, fptr);
-#if defined(__CYGWIN32__) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__EMX__) || defined(__SYMBIAN32__)
+#ifndef HAVE_FCHOWN
     if (NIL_P(fptr->pathv)) return Qnil;
     if (chown(RSTRING_PTR(fptr->pathv), o, g) == -1)
 	rb_sys_fail_path(fptr->pathv);