diff --git a/src/library_fs.js b/src/library_fs.js
index 886efa61f4c45..b50fb155a42e6 100644
--- a/src/library_fs.js
+++ b/src/library_fs.js
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ FS.staticInit();
       if (!link.node_ops.readlink) {
         throw new FS.ErrnoError({{{ cDefs.EINVAL }}});
       }
-      return PATH_FS.resolve(FS.getPath(link.parent), link.node_ops.readlink(link));
+      return link.node_ops.readlink(link);
     },
     stat(path, dontFollow) {
       var lookup = FS.lookupPath(path, { follow: !dontFollow });
diff --git a/test/unistd/links.c b/test/unistd/links.c
index d587160903346..81de30c60b2be 100644
--- a/test/unistd/links.c
+++ b/test/unistd/links.c
@@ -81,15 +81,7 @@ void test_reading_existing_symlinks() {
       continue;
     }
 
-    // WASMFS behaves the same as Linux (and as best as I can tell, the spec),
-    // seeing the symlink as a string. The old JS FS instead normalizes it and
-    // returns something modified.
-    // The same happens in the assertions below.
-#if !defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__) || defined(WASMFS)
     assert(strcmp(buffer, "../test/../there!") == 0);
-#else
-    assert(strcmp(buffer, "/there!") == 0);
-#endif
     assert(strlen(buffer) == rtn);
     errno = 0;
   }
@@ -111,11 +103,7 @@ void test_creating_symlink() {
   char buffer[256] = {0};
   rtn = readlink("directory/link", buffer, 256);
   assert(errno == 0);
-#if !defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__) || defined(WASMFS)
   assert(strcmp(buffer, "new-nonexistent-path") == 0);
-#else
-  assert(strcmp(buffer, "/working/directory/new-nonexistent-path") == 0);
-#endif
   assert(strlen(buffer) == rtn);
   errno = 0;
 }
@@ -127,11 +115,7 @@ void test_reading_shortened_symlink() {
   int rtn = readlink("link", buffer, 4);
   assert(errno == 0);
   assert(rtn == 4);
-#if !defined(__EMSCRIPTEN__) || defined(WASMFS)
   assert(strcmp(buffer, "../t**nexistent-path") == 0);
-#else
-  assert(strcmp(buffer, "/the**ng/directory/new-nonexistent-path") == 0);
-#endif
   errno = 0;
 }