diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/redox/fs.rs b/src/libstd/sys/redox/fs.rs
index c5a19e8debe93..4dcaec6edb8ad 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/redox/fs.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/redox/fs.rs
@@ -447,7 +447,10 @@ pub fn stat(p: &Path) -> io::Result<FileAttr> {
 }
 
 pub fn lstat(p: &Path) -> io::Result<FileAttr> {
-    stat(p)
+    let fd = cvt(syscall::open(p.to_str().unwrap(),
+                               syscall::O_CLOEXEC | syscall::O_STAT | syscall::O_NOFOLLOW))?;
+    let file = File(FileDesc::new(fd));
+    file.file_attr()
 }
 
 pub fn canonicalize(p: &Path) -> io::Result<PathBuf> {
diff --git a/src/libstd/sys/redox/syscall/flag.rs b/src/libstd/sys/redox/syscall/flag.rs
index bd603cfe6ef9d..65ad9842d699a 100644
--- a/src/libstd/sys/redox/syscall/flag.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/sys/redox/syscall/flag.rs
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ pub const O_EXCL: usize =       0x0800_0000;
 pub const O_DIRECTORY: usize =  0x1000_0000;
 pub const O_STAT: usize =       0x2000_0000;
 pub const O_SYMLINK: usize =    0x4000_0000;
+pub const O_NOFOLLOW: usize =   0x8000_0000;
 pub const O_ACCMODE: usize =    O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR;
 
 pub const SEEK_SET: usize = 0;