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authorLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2012-04-06 21:48:59 -0400
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2012-04-06 21:48:59 -0400
commiteeaab2d8af2cf1d36d7086f22e9de42d6dd2995c (patch)
tree369b9c91a6d808944f07d2290fec6f9fe2731904 /tools/perf/util/usage.c
parentee01e663373343c63e0e3d364d09f6155378dbcc (diff)
parentaaef292acf3a78d9c0bb6fb72226077d286b45d7 (diff)
Merge branches 'idle-fix' and 'misc' into release
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/usage.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/usage.c39
1 files changed, 39 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/usage.c b/tools/perf/util/usage.c
index d76d1c0ff98f..52bb07c6442a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/usage.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/usage.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
* Copyright (C) Linus Torvalds, 2005
*/
#include "util.h"
+#include "debug.h"
static void report(const char *prefix, const char *err, va_list params)
{
@@ -81,3 +82,41 @@ void warning(const char *warn, ...)
warn_routine(warn, params);
va_end(params);
}
+
+uid_t parse_target_uid(const char *str, const char *tid, const char *pid)
+{
+ struct passwd pwd, *result;
+ char buf[1024];
+
+ if (str == NULL)
+ return UINT_MAX;
+
+ /* UID and PID are mutually exclusive */
+ if (tid || pid) {
+ ui__warning("PID/TID switch overriding UID\n");
+ sleep(1);
+ return UINT_MAX;
+ }
+
+ getpwnam_r(str, &pwd, buf, sizeof(buf), &result);
+
+ if (result == NULL) {
+ char *endptr;
+ int uid = strtol(str, &endptr, 10);
+
+ if (*endptr != '\0') {
+ ui__error("Invalid user %s\n", str);
+ return UINT_MAX - 1;
+ }
+
+ getpwuid_r(uid, &pwd, buf, sizeof(buf), &result);
+
+ if (result == NULL) {
+ ui__error("Problems obtaining information for user %s\n",
+ str);
+ return UINT_MAX - 1;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return result->pw_uid;
+}