Don't store write() return val in unsigned variable

The conversion to unsigned means we failed to recognize errors,
since if (ret < 0) was never hit. This is the suspected cause
for data loss in bug 598561.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/metadata/metabuilder.c b/metadata/metabuilder.c
index bffdd163..cca24434 100644
--- a/metadata/metabuilder.c
+++ b/metadata/metabuilder.c
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ write_metadata (GString *out,
 static gboolean
 write_all_data_and_close (int fd, char *data, gsize len)
 {
-  gsize written;
+  gssize written;
   gboolean res;
 
   res = FALSE;