diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 55c86d149..cd09e486b 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+Wed Mar  7 15:49:47 2001  Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
+
+	* syscalls.cc (_read): Change definition to return ssize_t to be
+	consistent with read.
+	(_write): Change definition to return ssize_t to be consistent with
+	write.
+
 Wed Mar  7 01:08:21 2001  Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
 
 	* sigproc.h (sigthread): Declare new methods.  Create new winapi_lock
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 2497d8bf8..81394f0db 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ setsid (void)
   return -1;
 }
 
-extern "C" int
+extern "C" ssize_t
 _read (int fd, void *ptr, size_t len)
 {
   sigframe thisframe (mainthread);
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ out:
   return res;
 }
 
-extern "C" int
+extern "C" ssize_t
 _write (int fd, const void *ptr, size_t len)
 {
   int res = -1;