diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e997b27..bf8d6e3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed Jan 02 21:33:41 2002  Guillaume Morin  <gmorin@gnu.org>
+
+    * stow.in: Stow now only warns the user if a subdirectory
+      is unreadable during unstowing.
+
 Wed Jan 02 20:58:05 2002  Guillaume Morin  <gmorin@gnu.org>
 
     * stow.in: fixed JoinPaths so that subdir called "0" are
diff --git a/stow.in b/stow.in
index 1236058..08a73c1 100644
--- a/stow.in
+++ b/stow.in
@@ -202,8 +202,9 @@ sub Unstow {
   return (0, '') if (-e &JoinPaths($Target, $targetdir, '.stow'));
   warn sprintf("Unstowing in %s\n", &JoinPaths($Target, $targetdir))
     if ($Verbose > 1);
-  opendir(DIR, &JoinPaths($Target, $targetdir)) ||
-    die "$ProgramName: Cannot read directory \"$dir\" ($!)\n";
+  if (!opendir(DIR, &JoinPaths($Target, $targetdir))) {
+    warn "Warning: $ProgramName: Cannot read directory \"$dir\" ($!). Stow might leave some links. If you think, it does. Rerun Stow with appropriate rights.\n";
+  }	
   @contents = readdir(DIR);
   closedir(DIR);
   foreach $content (@contents) {