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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:29:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1261171790.20899.675.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091218205853.GD19708@ghostprotocols.net>

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 18:58 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > -   if (pipe(child_ready_pipe) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe) < 0) {
> > > +   if (target_pid == -1 && argc > 0 &&
> > > +       (pipe(child_ready_pipe) < 0 || pipe(go_pipe) < 0)) {
> > >             perror("failed to create pipes");
> > >             exit(-1);
> > >     }

Also, there's an unconditional close() a bit further down.

If not for that, I'd have put the whole mkpipe thing in the if
(target_pid == -1) branch.

Maybe I shouldn't have skimped on the extra state for that close


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-18 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-18 20:42 [PATCH 1/1] perf record: We should fork only if a program was specified to run Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2009-12-18 20:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-18 20:58   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2009-12-18 21:13     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-18 22:03       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-18 21:29     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-12-20 10:31 ` Xiao Guangrong

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