[PATCH] [2/2] perf: allow installing as perf-versionnumber
Andi Kleen
Right now installing a given perf binary as perf-versionnumber doesn't
work because perf internally tries to dispatch a "versionnumber" command.
Add a special case to not dispatch commands starting with a digit.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
---
tools/perf/perf.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.32-ak/tools/perf/perf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.32-ak.orig/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ linux-2.6.32-ak/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -441,8 +441,11 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
*
* So we just directly call the internal command handler, and
* die if that one cannot handle it.
+ *
+ * A special case is a digit option: this might be perf-versionnumber
+ * Just ignore that.
*/
- if (!prefixcmp(cmd, "perf-")) {
+ if (!prefixcmp(cmd, "perf-") && !isdigit(cmd[5])) {
cmd += 5;
argv[0] = cmd;
handle_internal_command(argc, argv);
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