Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf tools: Make rm_rf to remove single file

From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] perf tools: Make rm_rf to remove single file
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 14:33:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6c505cd6-9b49-5c47-8e8d-5b1fa68d1a69@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190203153018.9650-2-jolsa@kernel.org>

On 03.02.2019 18:30, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Let rm_rf remove file if it's provided by path.
> 
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-whhp3ej5795l9dc86xfyyp74@git.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/util.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
> index 320b0fef249a..58b8d6a8bfbc 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
> @@ -125,8 +125,14 @@ int rm_rf(const char *path)
>  	char namebuf[PATH_MAX];
>  
>  	dir = opendir(path);
> -	if (dir == NULL)
> -		return 0;
> +	if (dir == NULL) {
> +		/*
> +		 * The path does not exist or is not directory,
> +		 * so there's no harm to try remove it. This way
> +		 * rm_rf will work over single file.
> +		 */

This can also happen due to lack of fds or memory.
Not sure file still has to be deleted in these cases.

- Alexey

> +		return unlink(path);
> +	}
>  
>  	while ((d = readdir(dir)) != NULL && !ret) {
>  		struct stat statbuf;
> 