diff --git a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
index 01d84daa211d..f545f0856ec4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_posixpath.py
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ def test_normpath(self):
         self.assertEqual(posixpath.normpath(b"///..//./foo/.//bar"),
                          b"/foo/bar")
 
+    @skip_if_ABSTFN_contains_backslash
     def test_realpath_curdir(self):
         self.assertEqual(realpath('.'), os.getcwd())
         self.assertEqual(realpath('./.'), os.getcwd())
@@ -349,6 +350,7 @@ def test_realpath_curdir(self):
         self.assertEqual(realpath(b'./.'), os.getcwdb())
         self.assertEqual(realpath(b'/'.join([b'.'] * 100)), os.getcwdb())
 
+    @skip_if_ABSTFN_contains_backslash
     def test_realpath_pardir(self):
         self.assertEqual(realpath('..'), dirname(os.getcwd()))
         self.assertEqual(realpath('../..'), dirname(dirname(os.getcwd())))