From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:28:53 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: perf_counter tools: Guard against record damaging existing files
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=229c4eedcedcdadf70411120ba34bc37554a74bd;p=linux-beck.git

perf_counter tools: Guard against record damaging existing files

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
index 23d1224ce98c..96bfb7c5f1e4 100644
--- a/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
+++ b/Documentation/perf_counter/builtin-record.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 	assert(nr_cpus <= MAX_NR_CPUS);
 	assert(nr_cpus >= 0);
 
-	output = open(output_name, O_CREAT|O_RDWR, S_IRWXU);
+	output = open(output_name, O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_RDWR, S_IRWXU);
 	if (output < 0) {
 		perror("failed to create output file");
 		exit(-1);