The Old New Thing

Isn't there a race condition in GetFileVersionInfoSize?

March 21, 2012 Mar 21, 2012 03/21/12

Raymond Chen

In response to my explanation of what the parameter in is used for, Steve Nuchia wonders if there's a race condition between the time you get the size and the time you ask for the data. Yes, there is a race condition, but calling the function in a loop won't help because the function does not report that the buffer is too small to hold ...