From 266e0e219888420a1a7cafc82e82891cf7b5a979 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Habouzit Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:16:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf record: Fix the -A UI for empty or non-existent perf.data 1. Ignore the -A argument if there is no perf.data file 2. Treat an empty file like a non existent file. Else, perf will try to read the perf.data header, and fail with an error. Treating an empty file like a non-existent file makes sense, since an interupted (as in SIGKILLed) perf could leave such files around, and you don't want to annoy the user with errors for files with no data in it. Signed-off-by: Pierre Habouzit Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 90c98082af10..0345aad8eba5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -525,10 +525,14 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) signal(SIGCHLD, sig_handler); signal(SIGINT, sig_handler); - if (!stat(output_name, &st) && !force && !append_file) { - fprintf(stderr, "Error, output file %s exists, use -A to append or -f to overwrite.\n", - output_name); - exit(-1); + if (!stat(output_name, &st) && st.st_size) { + if (!force && !append_file) { + fprintf(stderr, "Error, output file %s exists, use -A to append or -f to overwrite.\n", + output_name); + exit(-1); + } + } else { + append_file = 0; } flags = O_CREAT|O_RDWR; -- 2.20.1