diff --git a/repos/libports/src/lib/libc_fatfs/plugin.cc b/repos/libports/src/lib/libc_fatfs/plugin.cc
index 93d61a70d..5864e22fc 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/lib/libc_fatfs/plugin.cc
+++ b/repos/libports/src/lib/libc_fatfs/plugin.cc
@@ -238,11 +238,6 @@ class Plugin : public Libc::Plugin
 
 		bool supports_symlink(const char *, const char *) override
 		{
-			/*
-			 * Even though FATFS does not support symlinks, we still want
-			 * to capture calls of 'symlink' to return ENOSYS, which is
-			 * checked in the file-system test.
-			 */
 			return true;
 		}
 
@@ -795,7 +790,7 @@ class Plugin : public Libc::Plugin
 
 		int symlink(const char *, const char *) override
 		{
-			errno = ENOSYS;
+			errno = EPERM;
 			return -1;
 		}
 };
diff --git a/repos/libports/src/test/libc_vfs/main.cc b/repos/libports/src/test/libc_vfs/main.cc
index 4721b100e..346c979a8 100644
--- a/repos/libports/src/test/libc_vfs/main.cc
+++ b/repos/libports/src/test/libc_vfs/main.cc
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ static void test(Genode::Xml_node node)
 		CALL_AND_CHECK(ret, stat(dir_name2, &stat_buf), (ret == -1), "dir_name=%s", dir_name2);
 
 		/* test symbolic links */
-		if ((symlink("/", "symlinks_supported") == 0) || (errno != ENOSYS)) {
+		if ((symlink("/", "symlinks_supported") == 0) || (errno != EPERM)) {
 			CALL_AND_CHECK(ret, mkdir("a", 0777), ((ret == 0) || (errno == EEXIST)), "dir_name=%s", "a");
 			CALL_AND_CHECK(ret, mkdir("c", 0777), ((ret == 0) || (errno == EEXIST)), "dir_name=%s", "c");
 			CALL_AND_CHECK(ret, symlink("../a", "c/d"),