Added new ReadFileToString API with a max_size argument

base/file_util.h

Index: base/file_util.h
diff --git a/base/file_util.h b/base/file_util.h
index f8418318a6a7ecd92255e6d708624b7f1ae6bcf7..a755901a0b455d434873e1dad9924e8f6e69a994 100644
--- a/base/file_util.h
+++ b/base/file_util.h
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ BASE_EXPORT bool TextContentsEqual(const FilePath& filename1,
 // Useful for unit tests.
 BASE_EXPORT bool ReadFileToString(const FilePath& path, std::string* contents);
 
+// Read the file at |path| into |contents|, returning true on success.
+// This function has an additional check on the maximum size of the file

[Andrew T Wilson (Slow), 2014/02/10 14:29:46]

nit: put a period at the end of the sentence. Also please clarify what the
behavior is if the size of the file exceeds "maxsize" (do we return an error, or
just truncate the amount read)?

[kaliamoorthi, 2014/02/11 10:10:45]

Done.

+BASE_EXPORT bool ReadFileToString(const FilePath& path, std::string* contents,
+                                  size_t maxsize);
+
 #if defined(OS_POSIX)
 
 // Read exactly |bytes| bytes from file descriptor |fd|, storing the result