From d89872c7641b458d4454bf000cf12534b2bed816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pierre Habouzit <pierre.habouzit@intersec.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:16:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 156627 b: refs/heads/master c:
 266e0e219888420a1a7cafc82e82891cf7b5a979 h: refs/heads/master i:   156625:
 e96ed3bb798781df23534bb2d41c89a561f14555   156623:
 650de985dde38283c2c8506da14bfb7665f3bd27 v: v3

---
 [refs]                            |  2 +-
 trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 12 ++++++++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 21807153f4a5..08a2660b713a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7eac7e9e726c1b136bd7e0ad6671ce315f48bb18
+refs/heads/master: 266e0e219888420a1a7cafc82e82891cf7b5a979
diff --git a/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 90c98082af10..0345aad8eba5 100644
--- a/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/trunk/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -525,10 +525,14 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv)
 	signal(SIGCHLD, sig_handler);
 	signal(SIGINT, sig_handler);
 
-	if (!stat(output_name, &st) && !force && !append_file) {
-		fprintf(stderr, "Error, output file %s exists, use -A to append or -f to overwrite.\n",
-				output_name);
-		exit(-1);
+	if (!stat(output_name, &st) && st.st_size) {
+		if (!force && !append_file) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Error, output file %s exists, use -A to append or -f to overwrite.\n",
+					output_name);
+			exit(-1);
+		}
+	} else {
+		append_file = 0;
 	}
 
 	flags = O_CREAT|O_RDWR;