diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 644d9da..79caa0e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Feb  9 00:48:38 2002  Gaël Roualland  <gael.roualland@iname.com>
+
+    * stow.in: be more flexible on '..' and '.' in existing symlinks
+      when trying to find if they point to the stow directory.
+
 Sat Jan 26 16:15:21 2002  Guillaume Morin  <gmorin@gnu.org>
 
     * stow.in: if $ENV{'STOW_DIR'} is set, this becomes the default
diff --git a/stow.in b/stow.in
index 43638bd..049094e 100644
--- a/stow.in
+++ b/stow.in
@@ -526,9 +526,9 @@ sub FindStowMember {
   while (@path) {
     $x = shift(@path);
     if ($x eq '..') {
-      pop(@x);
-      return '' unless @x;
-    } elsif ($x) {
+      # ignore if /, since /.. is /
+      pop(@x) if scalar(@x) > 1;
+    } elsif ($x ne '.') {
       push(@x, $x);
     }
   }