diff --git a/Mac/Tools/pythonw.c b/Mac/Tools/pythonw.c
index 1d2db38..cf81241 100644
--- a/Mac/Tools/pythonw.c
+++ b/Mac/Tools/pythonw.c
@@ -163,24 +163,11 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
          * Note: don't call 'realpath', that will
          * erase symlink information, and that
          * breaks "pyvenv --symlink"
-         *
-         * It is nice to have the directory name
-         * as a cleaned up absolute path though,
-         * therefore call realpath on dirname(path)
          */
         char* slash = strrchr(path, '/');
         if (slash) {
-            char  replaced;
-            replaced = slash[1];
-            slash[1] = 0;
-            if (realpath(path, real_path) == NULL) {
-                err(1, "realpath: %s", path);
-            }
-            slash[1] = replaced;
-            if (strlcat(real_path, slash, sizeof(real_path)) > sizeof(real_path)) {
-                errno = EINVAL;
-                err(1, "realpath: %s", path);
-            }
+            strncpy(real_path, path, sizeof(real_path));
+            real_path[sizeof(real_path)-1] = 0;
 
         } else {
             if (realpath(".", real_path) == NULL) {