diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 52c86a83..7e587c70 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Wed May  2 12:56:04 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
+
+	* xmlIO.c: Bjorn Reese provided a fix for a problem on buffer
+	 flushing
+
 Mon Apr 30 22:29:34 CEST 2001 Daniel Veillard <Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr>
 
 	* xpath.c: fix of an XSLT namespace bug reported on the list
diff --git a/xmlIO.c b/xmlIO.c
index 7eba6157..4f113879 100644
--- a/xmlIO.c
+++ b/xmlIO.c
@@ -1416,12 +1416,12 @@ xmlOutputBufferWrite(xmlOutputBufferPtr out, int len, const char *buf) {
 		ret = out->writecallback(out->context, 
 				 (const char *)out->conv->content, nbchars);
 		if (ret >= 0)
-		    xmlBufferShrink(out->conv, nbchars);
+		    xmlBufferShrink(out->conv, ret);
 	    } else {
 		ret = out->writecallback(out->context, 
 				 (const char *)out->buffer->content, nbchars);
 		if (ret >= 0)
-		    xmlBufferShrink(out->buffer, nbchars);
+		    xmlBufferShrink(out->buffer, ret);
 	    }
 	    if (ret < 0) {
 		xmlGenericError(xmlGenericErrorContext,