diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 93686e9bd8..646f3eaedf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sat Dec 21 13:00:20 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* file.c: remove unnecessary the source path from EEXIST error
+	  messages and show the destination path only.  [ruby-core:59202]
+	  [Feature #9263]
+
 Sat Dec 21 12:37:19 2013  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* lib/resolv.rb (Resolv::Hosts#lazy_initialize): should not
diff --git a/file.c b/file.c
index 77facacfcf..aee3fa6851 100644
--- a/file.c
+++ b/file.c
@@ -2510,6 +2510,9 @@ sys_fail2(VALUE s1, VALUE s2)
     const int max_pathlen = MAXPATHLEN;
 #endif
 
+    if (errno == EEXIST) {
+	rb_sys_fail_path(rb_str_ellipsize(s2, max_pathlen));
+    }
     str = rb_str_new_cstr("(");
     rb_str_append(str, rb_str_ellipsize(s1, max_pathlen));
     rb_str_cat2(str, ", ");