1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/win32/mingw.c b/win32/mingw.c
index f4ae60d41..7ce60139e 100644
--- a/win32/mingw.c
+++ b/win32/mingw.c
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ int utimensat(int fd, const char *path, const struct timespec times[2],
         HANDLE fh;
         DWORD cflag = FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS;
 
-        if (!is_absolute_path(path) && fd != AT_FDCWD) {
+        if (is_relative_path(path) && fd != AT_FDCWD) {
                 errno = ENOSYS; // partial implementation
                 return rc;
         }
@@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ int symlink(const char *target, const char *linkpath)
                 return -1;
         }
 
-        if (!is_absolute_path(target) && has_path(linkpath)) {
+        if (is_relative_path(target) && has_path(linkpath)) {
                 /* make target's path relative to current directory */
                 const char *name = bb_get_last_path_component_nostrip(linkpath);
                 relative = xasprintf("%.*s%s",
@@ -2082,11 +2082,11 @@ int has_path(const char *file)
                                 has_dos_drive_prefix(file);
 }
 
-/* This function is misnamed.  It's actually a test for 'is not a path
- * relative to the current working directory'.  On Unix this is the
- * same as 'is an absolute path' but Windows also has paths relative to
- * current root and relative to current directory of another drive. */
-int is_absolute_path(const char *path)
+/* Test whether a path is relative to a known location (usually the
+ * current working directory or a symlink).  On Unix this is a path
+ * that doesn't start with a slash but on Windows we also need to
+ * exclude paths that start with a backslash or a drive letter. */
+int is_relative_path(const char *path)
 {
-        return path[0] == '/' || path[0] == '\\' || has_dos_drive_prefix(path);
+        return !is_dir_sep(path[0]) && !has_dos_drive_prefix(path);
 }