Index: llvm/lib/Support/raw_ostream.cpp
===================================================================
--- llvm/lib/Support/raw_ostream.cpp
+++ llvm/lib/Support/raw_ostream.cpp
@@ -982,17 +982,30 @@
 
 void buffer_unique_ostream::anchor() {}
 
-Error llvm::writeToOutput(StringRef OutputFileName,
+Error llvm::writeToOutput(StringRef OutputCandidateFileName,
                           std::function<Error(raw_ostream &)> Write) {
-  if (OutputFileName == "-")
+  if (OutputCandidateFileName == "-")
     return Write(outs());
 
-  if (OutputFileName == "/dev/null") {
+  if (OutputCandidateFileName == "/dev/null") {
     raw_null_ostream Out;
     return Write(Out);
   }
 
   unsigned Mode = sys::fs::all_read | sys::fs::all_write | sys::fs::all_exe;
+
+  llvm::SmallString<128> RealPathOfSymlink;
+  if (sys::fs::is_symlink_file(OutputCandidateFileName)) {
+    std::error_code EC =
+        sys::fs::real_path(OutputCandidateFileName, RealPathOfSymlink);
+    if (EC)
+      return errorCodeToError(EC);
+  }
+
+  Twine OutputFileName = RealPathOfSymlink.str().empty()
+                             ? OutputCandidateFileName
+                             : Twine(RealPathOfSymlink);
+
   Expected<sys::fs::TempFile> Temp =
       sys::fs::TempFile::create(OutputFileName + ".temp-stream-%%%%%%", Mode);
   if (!Temp)
Index: llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/keep-dso-symlink.test
===================================================================
--- /dev/null
+++ llvm/test/tools/llvm-objcopy/keep-dso-symlink.test
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# REQUIRES: shell
+# RUN: touch empty.c
+# RUN: clang empty.c -shared -o empty.so.1
+# RUN: ln -sf empty.so.1 empty.so
+# RUN: llvm-strip --strip-unneeded empty.so
+# RUN: [ -L empty.so ] && echo "Still symlink" | FileCheck %s
+
+; CHECK: Still symlink