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Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 90c9808..0345aad 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; |
