From d6188bdd2718c15742c62d38d40919a54d64d44d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 16:26:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Document behaviour of the `encoding` parameter of
 fs.writeFile().

Fixes #401.
---
 doc/api/fs.markdown | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/fs.markdown b/doc/api/fs.markdown
index 613c45efd3..7df7ee1158 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.markdown
+++ b/doc/api/fs.markdown
@@ -361,7 +361,8 @@ returns a buffer.
 ### fs.writeFile(filename, data, encoding='utf8', [callback])
 
 Asynchronously writes data to a file, replacing the file if it already exists.
-`data` can be a string or a buffer.
+`data` can be a string or a buffer. The `encoding` argument is ignored if
+`data` is a buffer.
 
 Example: