From 2476bf2bb15f1b84363d9400c4994702ba3b59cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hsbt <hsbt@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 15:16:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify the behavior of IO.write without offset in write
 mode.

  https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1571

  Patch by @takanabe [fix GH-1571]
  [Bug #11638][ruby-core:71277]

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@60294 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
---
 io.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index 8dbdfad8ec..f01dea6873 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -10287,8 +10287,8 @@ io_s_write(int argc, VALUE *argv, int binary)
  *  Opens the file, optionally seeks to the given <i>offset</i>, writes
  *  <i>string</i>, then returns the length written.
  *  <code>write</code> ensures the file is closed before returning.
- *  If <i>offset</i> is not given, the file is truncated.  Otherwise,
- *  it is not truncated.
+ *  If <i>offset</i> is not given in write mode, the file is truncated.
+ *  Otherwise, it is not truncated.
  *
  *    IO.write("testfile", "0123456789", 20)  #=> 10
  *    # File could contain:  "This is line one\nThi0123456789two\nThis is line three\nAnd so on...\n"