From b38d34645cc52136b6c99623fef7ded26742e573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:09:30 -0200 Subject: perf record: Rename perf.data to perf.data.old if --force/-f is used MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools') diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index a66a58d52818..66979a5553b8 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -421,10 +421,19 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) signal(SIGINT, sig_handler); 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); + if (!force) { + if (!append_file) { + pr_err("Error, output file %s exists, use -A " + "to append or -f to overwrite.\n", + output_name); + exit(-1); + } + } else { + char oldname[PATH_MAX]; + snprintf(oldname, sizeof(oldname), "%s.old", + output_name); + unlink(oldname); + rename(output_name, oldname); } } else { append_file = 0; -- cgit v1.2.3