perf record: Rename perf.data to perf.data.old if --force/-f is used
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
LKML-Reference: <1260828571-3613-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index a66a58d..66979a5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -421,10 +421,19 @@
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;