Updated some code comments in DefaultIOStream.cpp

There was a misleading TODO comment that encouraged to use fseek/ftell instead of fstat. However, fstat has been used intionally because fseek/ftell is potentially unsafe.
So I replaced the TODO and added some explanation why fstat is being used instead.
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henrikbuchholz 2013-11-26 14:52:53 +01:00
parent cc3f8b82f9
commit 5983300422
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@ -110,7 +110,14 @@ size_t DefaultIOStream::FileSize() const
if (SIZE_MAX == cachedSize) {
// TODO: Is that really faster if we're already owning a handle to the file?
// Although fseek/ftell would allow us to reuse the exising file handle here,
// it is generally unsafe because:
// - For binary streams, it is not technically well-defined
// - For text files the results are meaningless
// That's why we use the safer variant fstat here.
//
// See here for details:
// https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/FIO19-C.+Do+not+use+fseek()+and+ftell()+to+compute+the+size+of+a+regular+file
#if defined _WIN32 && !defined __GNUC__
struct __stat64 fileStat;
int err = _stat64( mFilename.c_str(), &fileStat );