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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/perf.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c index e0279babe0c0..2f19e03c5c40 100644 --- a/tools/perf/perf.c +++ b/tools/perf/perf.c @@ -467,15 +467,21 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv) * - cannot execute it externally (since it would just do * the same thing over again) * - * So we just directly call the internal command handler, and - * die if that one cannot handle it. + * So we just directly call the internal command handler. If that one + * fails to handle this, then maybe we just run a renamed perf binary + * that contains a dash in its name. To handle this scenario, we just + * fall through and ignore the "xxxx" part of the command string. */ if (strstarts(cmd, "perf-")) { cmd += 5; argv[0] = cmd; handle_internal_command(argc, argv); - fprintf(stderr, "cannot handle %s internally", cmd); - goto out; + /* + * If the command is handled, the above function does not + * return undo changes and fall through in such a case. + */ + cmd -= 5; + argv[0] = cmd; } if (strstarts(cmd, "trace")) { #ifdef HAVE_LIBAUDIT_SUPPORT |