diff --git a/src/fcntl.rs b/src/fcntl.rs
index 7ccb737670..2cb7f50575 100644
--- a/src/fcntl.rs
+++ b/src/fcntl.rs
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ fn wrap_readlink_result(v: &mut Vec<u8>, res: ssize_t) -> Result<OsString> {
     }
 }
 
-pub fn readlink<'a, P: ?Sized + NixPath>(path: &P) -> Result<OsString> {
+pub fn readlink<P: ?Sized + NixPath>(path: &P) -> Result<OsString> {
     let mut v = Vec::with_capacity(libc::PATH_MAX as usize);
     let res = path.with_nix_path(|cstr| {
         unsafe { libc::readlink(cstr.as_ptr(), v.as_mut_ptr() as *mut c_char, v.capacity() as size_t) }
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ pub fn readlink<'a, P: ?Sized + NixPath>(path: &P) -> Result<OsString> {
 }
 
 
-pub fn readlinkat<'a, P: ?Sized + NixPath>(dirfd: RawFd, path: &P) -> Result<OsString> {
+pub fn readlinkat<P: ?Sized + NixPath>(dirfd: RawFd, path: &P) -> Result<OsString> {
     let mut v = Vec::with_capacity(libc::PATH_MAX as usize);
     let res = path.with_nix_path(|cstr| {
         unsafe { libc::readlinkat(dirfd, cstr.as_ptr(), v.as_mut_ptr() as *mut c_char, v.capacity() as size_t) }