From 6bb8306bcd3155c76b1e89d0526c179b39a15a54 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lilith Orion Hafner <lilithhafner@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 14:32:36 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Make `write` return `Int` instead of `UInt` in an obscure
 code-path. (#54197)

---
 base/io.jl         | 2 +-
 test/filesystem.jl | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/io.jl b/base/io.jl
index fb883234be4df6..9f5bbf7416a9a8 100644
--- a/base/io.jl
+++ b/base/io.jl
@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ unsafe_write(s::IO, p::Ptr, n::Integer) = unsafe_write(s, convert(Ptr{UInt8}, p)
 function write(s::IO, x::Ref{T}) where {T}
     x isa Ptr && error("write cannot copy from a Ptr")
     if isbitstype(T)
-        unsafe_write(s, x, Core.sizeof(T))
+        Int(unsafe_write(s, x, Core.sizeof(T)))
     else
         write(s, x[])
     end
diff --git a/test/filesystem.jl b/test/filesystem.jl
index 566ca08ec910e4..625bfc38e5e2f7 100644
--- a/test/filesystem.jl
+++ b/test/filesystem.jl
@@ -46,3 +46,7 @@ end
   @test_broken isempty(undoc)
   @test undoc == [:File, :Filesystem, :cptree, :futime, :rename, :sendfile, :unlink]
 end
+
+@testet "write return type" begin
+    @test Base.return_types(write, (Base.Filesystem.File, UInt8)) == [Int]
+end