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| author | Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> | 2010-05-31 23:18:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2010-06-01 00:57:14 +0200 |
| commit | 2fb750e825b5347de0390315f4284f13709a9856 (patch) | |
| tree | 83ee23e2e1de5460c399e7f527a27acf412022f5 | |
| parent | dd833d713ccc79e00176eb1b3a6c65638c44e27b (diff) | |
perf-record: Check correct pid when forking
When forking the child to be traced, we should check the correct
return value from fork() and not a local variable which is otherwise
unused.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100531211818.GA30175@liondog.tnic>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 9bc89050e6f..dc3435e18bd 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -503,7 +503,6 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) { int i, counter; struct stat st; - pid_t pid = 0; int flags; int err; unsigned long waking = 0; @@ -572,7 +571,7 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) if (forks) { child_pid = fork(); - if (pid < 0) { + if (child_pid < 0) { perror("failed to fork"); exit(-1); } |