diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index 91f2cb4c3a7..8c4208b7cfd 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-08-13  Jesse Rosenstock  <jmr@fulcrummicro.com>
+
+	* java/io/RandomAccessFile.java (skipBytes): Return number of
+	bytes skipped.
+
 2002-08-01  Mark Wielaard  <mark@klomp.org>
 
 	Reenable patch since shared library troubles on powerpc are solved:
diff --git a/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java b/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java
index 81b7050f62d..1d30f1f3772 100644
--- a/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java
+++ b/libjava/java/io/RandomAccessFile.java
@@ -171,7 +171,11 @@ public class RandomAccessFile implements DataOutput, DataInput
 
   public int skipBytes (int count) throws IOException
   {
-    return count <= 0 ? 0 : fd.seek(count, FileDescriptor.CUR, true);
+    if (count <= 0)
+      return 0;
+    long startPos = fd.getFilePointer();
+    long endPos = fd.seek(count, FileDescriptor.CUR, true);
+    return (int) (endPos - startPos);
   }
 
   public void write (int oneByte) throws IOException