Let's just open the file right away and deal with errors. Moreover, there's no reason to forbid logging to, e.g., a pipe. Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- tools/virsh.c | 20 -------------------- 1 file changed, 20 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.c b/tools/virsh.c index 1bac842..3927120 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.c +++ b/tools/virsh.c @@ -2794,29 +2794,9 @@ vshInit(vshControl *ctl) void vshOpenLogFile(vshControl *ctl) { - struct stat st; - if (ctl->logfile == NULL) return; - /* check log file */ - if (stat(ctl->logfile, &st) == -1) { - switch (errno) { - case ENOENT: - break; - default: - vshError(ctl, "%s", - _("failed to get the log file information")); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - } else { - if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode)) { - vshError(ctl, "%s", _("the log path is not a file")); - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); - } - } - - /* log file open */ if ((ctl->log_fd = open(ctl->logfile, LOGFILE_FLAGS, FILE_MODE)) < 0) { vshError(ctl, "%s", _("failed to open the log file. check the log file path")); -- 2.0.0