martinzink commented on a change in pull request #987: URL: https://github.com/apache/nifi-minifi-cpp/pull/987#discussion_r570172791
########## File path: libminifi/src/io/FileStream.cpp ########## @@ -77,10 +101,16 @@ void FileStream::close() { void FileStream::seek(uint64_t offset) { std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(file_lock_); + if (file_stream_ == nullptr || !file_stream_->is_open()) { + logging::LOG_ERROR(logger_) << seek_error << invalid_file_stream_error_msg; + return; + } offset_ = gsl::narrow<size_t>(offset); file_stream_->clear(); - file_stream_->seekg(offset_); - file_stream_->seekp(offset_); + if (!file_stream_->seekg(offset_)) + logging::LOG_ERROR(logger_) << seek_error << seekg_call_error_msg; Review comment: That is a good question. I felt the same at first, but since the read and write pointers should be pointing to the same position, I think it would be better to call them both regardless of errors we encounter in the first call. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org