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authorMichal Sekletar <msekletar@users.noreply.github.com>2017-08-30 13:07:43 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2017-08-30 13:07:43 +0200
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README: note that installing valgrind-devel maybe useful to developers (#6502)
Commit also mentions that when running under valgrind we actually don't execve() systemd-shutdown. We have a comment about this in the code, but being upfront about this change in behavior doesn't hurt.
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@@ -291,9 +291,12 @@ WARNINGS:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
To run systemd under valgrind, compile with VALGRIND defined
- (e.g. ./configure CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1'). Otherwise,
- false positives will be triggered by code which violates
- some rules but is actually safe.
+ (e.g. CPPFLAGS='... -DVALGRIND=1' meson <options>) and have valgrind
+ development headers installed (i.e. valgrind-devel or
+ equivalent). Otherwise, false positives will be triggered by code which
+ violates some rules but is actually safe. Note that valgrind generates
+ nice output only on exit(), hence on shutdown we don't execve()
+ systemd-shutdown.
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