Re: [Valgrind-developers] Regarding Valgrind when run with gedit

[indhu k. s. <ind...@gm...>]

Thank you for the response.
My program does not have any fork() calls. Is there any other explanation
for this output?

Thanks,
Indhu

On 8/2/06, Tom Hughes <to...@co...> wrote:
>
> In message <eea...@ma...>
>           "indhu krishna sivaramakrishnan" <ind...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > I am getting more than one process ids in the output. Does valgrind
> spawn a
> > new process everytime it calls one of its tools? I know that there is an
> > execve at the beginning in launcher.c where the tool is called. But is
> it
> > happening multiple times?
>
> No, valgrind never spawns new processes of it's own accord. Only if
> the client program calls fork or clone will you see new processes or
> threads appearing.
>
> Tom
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