diff --git a/Godeps/Godeps.json b/Godeps/Godeps.json
index bc79531c1..8ba0b5c50 100644
--- a/Godeps/Godeps.json
+++ b/Godeps/Godeps.json
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/jbenet/go-msgio",
-			"Rev": "634f25d82673bbdb0b87b8d7e1b7a3df59ede671"
+			"Rev": "7bdc5b738564871e1c0d5ca9449900d0d6773713"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/jbenet/go-multiaddr",
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio.go
index 3c03243bf..f4a61aff0 100644
--- a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio.go
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const lengthSize = 4
 type Writer interface {
 
 	// Write writes passed in buffer as a single message.
-	Write([]byte) error
+	Write([]byte) (int, error)
 
 	// WriteMsg writes the msg in the passed in buffer.
 	WriteMsg([]byte) error
@@ -79,8 +79,12 @@ func NewWriter(w io.Writer) WriteCloser {
 	return &writer{W: w, lock: new(sync.Mutex)}
 }
 
-func (s *writer) Write(msg []byte) (err error) {
-	return s.WriteMsg(msg)
+func (s *writer) Write(msg []byte) (int, error) {
+	err := s.WriteMsg(msg)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return len(msg), nil
 }
 
 func (s *writer) WriteMsg(msg []byte) (err error) {
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio_test.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio_test.go
index 80733a6b6..cef3e9cd0 100644
--- a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio_test.go
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/jbenet/go-msgio/msgio_test.go
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@ func TestReadWrite(t *testing.T) {
 	r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(time.Now().UnixNano()))
 	for i := range msgs {
 		msgs[i] = randbuf.RandBuf(r, r.Intn(1000))
-		err := writer.Write(msgs[i])
+		n, err := writer.Write(msgs[i])
 		if err != nil {
 			t.Fatal(err)
 		}
+		if n != len(msgs[i]) {
+			t.Fatal("wrong length:", n, len(msgs[i]))
+		}
 	}
 
 	if err := writer.Close(); err != nil {