1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/sftp.c b/sftp.c
index 4e1a026f7..6f16f7cc6 100644
--- a/sftp.c
+++ b/sftp.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* $OpenBSD: sftp.c,v 1.150 2013/08/07 06:24:51 jmc Exp $ */
+/* $OpenBSD: sftp.c,v 1.151 2013/08/08 04:52:04 djm Exp $ */
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2001-2004 Damien Miller <djm@openbsd.org>
  *
@@ -1358,7 +1358,8 @@ parse_dispatch_command(struct sftp_conn *conn, const char *cmd, char **pwd,
         case I_SYMLINK:
                 sflag = 1;
         case I_LINK:
-                path1 = make_absolute(path1, *pwd);
+                if (!sflag)
+                        path1 = make_absolute(path1, *pwd);
                 path2 = make_absolute(path2, *pwd);
                 err = (sflag ? do_symlink : do_hardlink)(conn, path1, path2);
                 break;