The Old New Thing

Why does GetFileVersionInfo map the whole image into memory instead of just parsing out the pieces it needs?

May 30, 2014 May 30, 2014 05/30/14

Raymond Chen

Commenter acq responds (with expletive deleted), "the whole file is mapped into the process' memory only for version info that's certainly only a few kilobytes to be read?" Why not map only the parts that are needed? "I don't understand the necessity to map the whole file except that it was easier to write that code without thinking too much...