Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind: r6640 - trunk/memcheck

[Nicholas N. <nj...@cs...>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> I've thought about this some days ago. the reason why environment is special
> compared to other glibc functions is that it is something that interacts with
> process-external (other subprocesses for example). So it falls into the same
> class like the defined-ness checking for write(2) or similar syscallls, with
> the difference, that environment manipulation doesn't involve any significant
> syscalls (brk() at most). Thats why I want to add these special wrappers.

Hmm, that does sound reasonable.

Nick