perf stat: Fix default output file

The following commit:

commit 56f3bae70638b33477a6015fd362ccfe354fd3ee
Author: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Sep 7 17:14:00 2011 -0600

    perf stat: Add --log-fd <N> option to redirect stderr elsewhere

introduced a bug in the way perf stat outputs the results by default,
i.e., without the --log-fd or --output option. It would default to
writing to file descriptor 0, i.e., stdin. Writing to stdin is allowed
and is equivalent to writing to stdout. However, there is a major
difference for any script that was already capturing the output of perf
stat via redirection:

    perf stat >/tmp/log .... or perf stat 2>/tmp/log ....

They would not capture anything anymore. They would have to do:
    perf stat 0>/tmp/log ...

This breaks compatibility with existing scripts and does not look very
natural.

This patch fixes the problem by looking at output_fd only when it was
modified by user (> 0). It also checks that the value if positive.
Passing --log-fd 0 is ignored.

I would also argue that defaulting to stderr for the results is not the
right thing to do, though this patch does not address this specific
issue.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120515111111.GA9870@quad
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
index 262589991ea4..07b5c7703dd1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-stat.c
@@ -1179,6 +1179,12 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
                 fprintf(stderr, "cannot use both --output and --log-fd\n");
                 usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
         }
+
+        if (output_fd < 0) {
+                fprintf(stderr, "argument to --log-fd must be a > 0\n");
+                usage_with_options(stat_usage, options);
+        }
+
         if (!output) {
                 struct timespec tm;
                 mode = append_file ? "a" : "w";
@@ -1190,7 +1196,7 @@ int cmd_stat(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __used)
                 }
                 clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &tm);
                 fprintf(output, "# started on %s\n", ctime(&tm.tv_sec));
-        } else if (output_fd != 2) {
+        } else if (output_fd > 0) {
                 mode = append_file ? "a" : "w";
                 output = fdopen(output_fd, mode);
                 if (!output) {