From 9262d647bb886fb6d1a846e33af2e95b35105459 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jethrogb <github@jbeekman.nl>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 11:05:47 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Change std::fs::File.set_len example and documentation

The File object needs to be writable for the truncate to succeed.
---
 src/libstd/fs.rs | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/libstd/fs.rs b/src/libstd/fs.rs
index 2458838bc9d36..7598a1c7a48f0 100644
--- a/src/libstd/fs.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/fs.rs
@@ -269,14 +269,18 @@ impl File {
     /// will be extended to `size` and have all of the intermediate data filled
     /// in with 0s.
     ///
+    /// # Errors
+    ///
+    /// This function will return an error if the file is not opened for writing.
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// ```no_run
     /// use std::fs::File;
     ///
     /// # fn foo() -> std::io::Result<()> {
-    /// let mut f = try!(File::open("foo.txt"));
-    /// try!(f.set_len(0));
+    /// let mut f = try!(File::create("foo.txt"));
+    /// try!(f.set_len(10));
     /// # Ok(())
     /// # }
     /// ```