merge revision(s) 60294: [Backport #11638]

	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/branches/ruby_2_4@62692 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index 2847980610..71ea478ef7 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -10102,8 +10102,8 @@ 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"
diff --git a/version.h b/version.h
index e8dd5b68f4..3d404f2b9d 100644
--- a/version.h
+++ b/version.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #define RUBY_VERSION "2.4.4"
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_DATE "2018-03-07"
-#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 254
+#define RUBY_PATCHLEVEL 255
 
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_YEAR 2018
 #define RUBY_RELEASE_MONTH 3