docs: function safeReadFileSync (fileName, options) {
      verifyFileName (fileName);
      
      // if fileName exists, verify it is a file
      var info = getFileInfo (fileName);
      if ((info.exists) && (info.isFile === false)) {
          var message = format (cc.MSG_IS_NOT_A_FILE, fileName);
          throw new SafeFileError (cc.IS_NOT_A_FILE, message);
      }
  
      // get state, if auto-recovery required, perform recovery
      var state = getState (fileName);
      if (state.status === cc.SAFE_RECOVERABLE) {
          performRecovery (state, true);
      }
  
      // perform read on file
      return (readFileSync (fileName, options));
  }