diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6248c97033..dec9f22c56 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Apr 11 19:10:37 2002  WATANABE Hirofumi  <eban@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* io.c (remain_size): IO#read returns "" if file.size == 0.
+
 Thu Apr 11 09:31:19 2002  Takaaki Tateishi <ttate@kt.jaist.ac.jp>
 
 	* ext/dl/ptr.c: raise() -> rb_raise(). (Thanks Tetsuya Watanabe)
diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index 8057542f92..da93d45253 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -625,9 +625,6 @@ remain_size(fptr)
     {
 	off_t pos;
 
-	if (st.st_size == 0) {
-	    return 1;		/* force EOF */
-	}
 	pos = ftello(fptr->f);
 	if (st.st_size > pos && pos >= 0) {
 	    siz = st.st_size - pos + 1;