diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 070bdadb5b..9d461ec746 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Fri Mar 15 19:47:31 2002  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu.nakada@nifty.ne.jp>
+
+	* win32/win32.c (StartSockets): remove duplicated lines.
+
 Fri Mar 15 17:44:08 2002  Usaku Nakamura <usa@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* bignum.c, intern.h (rb_ull2big, rb_ll2big, rb_ull2inum, rb_ll2inum,
diff --git a/win32/win32.c b/win32/win32.c
index 5ba9bfbaf7..01e824baab 100644
--- a/win32/win32.c
+++ b/win32/win32.c
@@ -1722,9 +1722,6 @@ StartSockets ()
     interrupted_event = CreateSignal();
     if (!interrupted_event)
 	rb_fatal("Unable to create interrupt event!\n");
-    interrupted_event = CreateSignal();
-    if (!interrupted_event)
-	rb_fatal("Unable to create interrupt event!\n");
 }
 
 #undef accept