diff --git a/libgloss/ChangeLog b/libgloss/ChangeLog
index aa1f44508..51464386a 100644
--- a/libgloss/ChangeLog
+++ b/libgloss/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-05-05  Ken Werner  <ken.werner@de.ibm.com>
+
+	* spu/readlink.c: Align readlink implementation to POSIX.
+	
 2008-04-25  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
 
 	* arm/crt0.S: Allow assembly under ARMv7 ISA.  Support for
diff --git a/libgloss/spu/readlink.c b/libgloss/spu/readlink.c
index ac7c59182..7a3dc9543 100644
--- a/libgloss/spu/readlink.c
+++ b/libgloss/spu/readlink.c
@@ -44,14 +44,8 @@ typedef struct
   unsigned int pad2[3];
 } syscall_readlink_t;
 
-/*
- * POSIX says readlink returns ssize_t, and has an size_t bufsiz, but
- * newlib has it prototyped as returning int, and int bufsiz. ssize_t,
- * size_t and int are ally currently 4 bytes for SPU, so just leave them
- * as ints for now.
- */
-int
-readlink (const char *path, char *buf, int bufsiz)
+ssize_t
+readlink (const char *path, char *buf, size_t bufsiz)
 {
   syscall_readlink_t sys;