diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a2e50e8760..9571cdf9d6 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Thu Apr 24 20:53:02 2014  Tanaka Akira  <akr@fsij.org>
+
+	* lib/tmpdir.rb: Don't need to rescue LoadError for etc.so.
+
 Thu Apr 24 17:39:53 2014  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* file.c (statfs_inspect): suppress warnings.
diff --git a/lib/tmpdir.rb b/lib/tmpdir.rb
index 2161768576..a3bb9f4935 100644
--- a/lib/tmpdir.rb
+++ b/lib/tmpdir.rb
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@
 #
 
 require 'fileutils'
-begin
-  require 'etc.so'
-rescue LoadError
-end
+require 'etc.so'
 
 class Dir