Merge pull request #196 from AIM360/UpdatedCodeComments
Updated some code comments in DefaultIOStream.cpppull/198/head^2
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@ -110,7 +110,14 @@ size_t DefaultIOStream::FileSize() const
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if (SIZE_MAX == cachedSize) {
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if (SIZE_MAX == cachedSize) {
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// TODO: Is that really faster if we're already owning a handle to the file?
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// Although fseek/ftell would allow us to reuse the exising file handle here,
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// it is generally unsafe because:
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// - For binary streams, it is not technically well-defined
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// - For text files the results are meaningless
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// That's why we use the safer variant fstat here.
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//
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// See here for details:
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// https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode/FIO19-C.+Do+not+use+fseek()+and+ftell()+to+compute+the+size+of+a+regular+file
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#if defined _WIN32 && !defined __GNUC__
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#if defined _WIN32 && !defined __GNUC__
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struct __stat64 fileStat;
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struct __stat64 fileStat;
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int err = _stat64( mFilename.c_str(), &fileStat );
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int err = _stat64( mFilename.c_str(), &fileStat );
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