diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 33dc10a341..276c7ee4da 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Thu Feb 12 13:32:49 2004  NAKAMURA Usaku  <usa@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* win32/win32.c (link): raise NotImplementedError on Win9X.
+	  contributed by Tietew. [ruby-dev:22713]
+
+	* win32/win32.c, win32/win32.h (link): add const.
+
 Thu Feb 12 09:56:19 2004  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* ext/tk/lib/tk.rb (TkComm::tk_split_list): suppress a warning.
diff --git a/win32/win32.c b/win32/win32.c
index 43c69078d4..4436464697 100644
--- a/win32/win32.c
+++ b/win32/win32.c
@@ -2593,7 +2593,7 @@ kill(int pid, int sig)
 }
 
 int
-link(char *from, char *to)
+link(const char *from, const char *to)
 {
     static BOOL (WINAPI *pCreateHardLink)(LPCTSTR, LPCTSTR, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES) = NULL;
     static int myerrno = 0;
@@ -2605,9 +2605,8 @@ link(char *from, char *to)
 	if (hKernel) {
 	    pCreateHardLink = (BOOL (WINAPI *)(LPCTSTR, LPCTSTR, LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES))GetProcAddress(hKernel, "CreateHardLinkA");
 	    if (!pCreateHardLink) {
-		myerrno = map_errno(GetLastError());
+		rb_notimplement();
 	    }
-	    CloseHandle(hKernel);
 	}
 	else {
 	    myerrno = map_errno(GetLastError());
diff --git a/win32/win32.h b/win32/win32.h
index 33aa60619c..82bc90ed77 100644
--- a/win32/win32.h
+++ b/win32/win32.h
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ extern int rb_w32_vsnprintf(char *, size_t, const char *, va_list);
 extern int rb_w32_snprintf(char *, size_t, const char *, ...);
 
 extern int chown(const char *, int, int);
-extern int link(char *, char *);
+extern int link(const char *, const char *);
 extern int gettimeofday(struct timeval *, struct timezone *);
 extern pid_t waitpid (pid_t, int *, int);
 extern int do_spawn(int, char *);