[Libguestfs] [PATCH] Enable running the daemon under valgrind.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:13:09PM +0000, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 01/24/2012 01:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >From: "Richard W.M. Jones"<rjones at redhat.com>
> >
> >This commit allows you to run the daemon under valgrind.  You have to
> >enable it at configure time:
> >
> >   ./configure --enable-valgrind-daemon
> >
> >This should *not* be done for production builds.
> >
> >When this feature is enabled, valgrind is added to the appliance and
> >the daemon is run under valgrind.  Log messages from valgrind are
> >passed back over a virtio-serial channel into a file called
> >'valgrind.log.$PID' in the top build directory.
> >
> >Running 'make check', 'make extra-tests' etc causes many
> >valgrind.log.* files to be created which must be examined by hand.
> >---
> >  .gitignore               |    1 +
> >  appliance/Makefile.am    |    9 +++++++--
> >  appliance/init           |   10 +++++++++-
> >  appliance/packagelist.in |    4 ++++
> >  configure.ac             |   15 +++++++++++++++
> >  src/guestfs.c            |    2 ++
> >  src/launch.c             |   10 ++++++++++
> >  7 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> 
> Could you stick a comment here explaining what this #ifdef is for?
> It's not obvious enough from the code.

Done.

There are other changes too.  I'm going to repost this patch + a long
series of fixes for the daemon.  Still fixing :-)

Rich.

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