From: He Kuang <heku...@huawei.com> Perf shows the usage message when perf scripts folder failed to open, which misleads users to let them think the command is being mistyped.
This patch shows a proper message and guides users to check the PERF_EXEC_PATH environment variable in that case. Before: $ perf script --list Usage: perf script [<options>] or: perf script [<options>] record <script> [<record-options>] <command> or: perf script [<options>] report <script> [script-args] or: perf script [<options>] <script> [<record-options>] <command> or: perf script [<options>] <top-script> [script-args] -l, --list list available scripts After: $ perf script --list open(/home/user/perf-core/scripts) failed. Check for "PERF_EXEC_PATH" env to set scripts dir. Signed-off-by: He Kuang <heku...@huawei.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470309943-153909-1-git-send-email-heku...@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c index 9c640a8081c7..45c51eb6cab4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-script.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-script.c @@ -1690,8 +1690,13 @@ static int list_available_scripts(const struct option *opt __maybe_unused, snprintf(scripts_path, MAXPATHLEN, "%s/scripts", get_argv_exec_path()); scripts_dir = opendir(scripts_path); - if (!scripts_dir) - return -1; + if (!scripts_dir) { + fprintf(stdout, + "open(%s) failed.\n" + "Check \"PERF_EXEC_PATH\" env to set scripts dir.\n", + scripts_path); + exit(-1); + } for_each_lang(scripts_path, scripts_dir, lang_dirent) { snprintf(lang_path, MAXPATHLEN, "%s/%s/bin", scripts_path, -- 2.7.4