perf record: auto detect when stdout is a pipe

This patch gives the ability to 'perf record' to detect when its stdout
has been redirected to a pipe. There's now no more need to add '-o -'
switch in this case.

However '-o <path>' option has always precedence, that is if specified
and stdout has been connected via a pipe then the output will go into
the specified output.

LKML-Reference: <m3ipxo966i.fsf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 45a3689..1346d42 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static unsigned int           user_freq                       = UINT_MAX;
 static int                     freq                            =   1000;
 static int                     output;
 static int                     pipe_output                     =      0;
-static const char              *output_name                    = "perf.data";
+static const char              *output_name                    = NULL;
 static int                     group                           =      0;
 static int                     realtime_prio                   =      0;
 static bool                    nodelay                         =  false;
@@ -497,18 +497,26 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
                exit(-1);
        }
 
-       if (!strcmp(output_name, "-"))
-               pipe_output = 1;
-       else if (!stat(output_name, &st) && st.st_size) {
-               if (write_mode == WRITE_FORCE) {
-                       char oldname[PATH_MAX];
-                       snprintf(oldname, sizeof(oldname), "%s.old",
-                                output_name);
-                       unlink(oldname);
-                       rename(output_name, oldname);
+       if (!output_name) {
+               if (!fstat(STDOUT_FILENO, &st) && S_ISFIFO(st.st_mode))
+                       pipe_output = 1;
+               else
+                       output_name = "perf.data";
+       }
+       if (output_name) {
+               if (!strcmp(output_name, "-"))
+                       pipe_output = 1;
+               else if (!stat(output_name, &st) && st.st_size) {
+                       if (write_mode == WRITE_FORCE) {
+                               char oldname[PATH_MAX];
+                               snprintf(oldname, sizeof(oldname), "%s.old",
+                                        output_name);
+                               unlink(oldname);
+                               rename(output_name, oldname);
+                       }
+               } else if (write_mode == WRITE_APPEND) {
+                       write_mode = WRITE_FORCE;
                }
-       } else if (write_mode == WRITE_APPEND) {
-               write_mode = WRITE_FORCE;
        }
 
        flags = O_CREAT|O_RDWR;