diff --git a/pcap-dlpi.c b/pcap-dlpi.c
index d87f8c9..1345525 100644
--- a/pcap-dlpi.c
+++ b/pcap-dlpi.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
 
 #ifndef lint
 static const char rcsid[] _U_ =
-    "@(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-dlpi.c,v 1.115 2005-08-13 23:14:24 guy Exp $ (LBL)";
+    "@(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-dlpi.c,v 1.116 2006-04-04 05:32:27 guy Exp $ (LBL)";
 #endif
 
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
@@ -396,6 +396,14 @@ pcap_inject_dlpi(pcap_t *p, const void *buf, size_t size)
 		    pcap_strerror(errno));
 		return (-1);
 	}
+	/*
+	 * putmsg() returns either 0 or -1; it doesn't indicate how
+	 * many bytes were written (presumably they were all written
+	 * or none of them were written).  OpenBSD's pcap_inject()
+	 * returns the number of bytes written, so, for API compatibility,
+	 * we return the number of bytes we were told to write.
+	 */
+	ret = size;
 #else /* no raw mode */
 	/*
 	 * XXX - this is a pain, because you might have to extract