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doc: add descriptions about when options.mode is ignored
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PR-URL: #39881
Fixes: #39859
Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anto Aravinth <anto.aravinth.cse@gmail.com>
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rayw000 authored and targos committed Sep 4, 2021
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If `options` is a string, then it specifies the `encoding`.
The `mode` option only affects the newly created file. See [`fs.open()`][]
for more details.
The `path` may be specified as a {FileHandle} that has been opened
for appending (using `fsPromises.open()`).
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If `options` is a string, then it specifies the encoding.
The `mode` option only affects the newly created file. See [`fs.open()`][]
for more details.
Any specified {FileHandle} has to support writing.
It is unsafe to use `fsPromises.writeFile()` multiple times on the same file
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Asynchronously append data to a file, creating the file if it does not yet
exist. `data` can be a string or a {Buffer}.
The `mode` option only affects the newly created file. See [`fs.open()`][]
for more details.
```mjs
import { appendFile } from 'fs';
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The `encoding` option is ignored if `data` is a buffer.
The `mode` option only affects the newly created file. See [`fs.open()`][]
for more details.
If `data` is a plain object, it must have an own (not inherited) `toString`
function property.
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Synchronously append data to a file, creating the file if it does not yet
exist. `data` can be a string or a {Buffer}.
The `mode` option only affects the newly created file. See [`fs.open()`][]
for more details.
```mjs
import { appendFileSync } from 'fs';

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If `data` is a plain object, it must have an own (not inherited) `toString`
function property.
The `mode` option only affects the newly created file. See [`fs.open()`][]
for more details.
For detailed information, see the documentation of the asynchronous version of
this API: [`fs.writeFile()`][].
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