Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind output file inaccessible

[Richard L. <rl...@pe...>]

My version of valgrind/callgrind (3.2.1) does not list any such argument.

What version are you using?

PS
If it *were* there in my version, I certainly would not have been posting to the list :-)

PPS
IT is going to give that access needed; I just thought it would be handy for other use cases as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ashley Pittman [mailto:api...@co...]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 10:39 AM
To: Richard Lynch
Cc: 'val...@li...'
Subject: Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind output file inaccessible

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 10:29 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
> I'm running valgrind on a dev/QA box for code profiling.
>
> Said box is maintained by IT.
>
> I am not root, cannot get root, and will never ever ever have a chance
> of being root on hardware of this price tag. :-)
>
> And that's the way it SHOULD be.

I could argue that if you need a tool to do your job it's ITs role to
ensure you have access to those tools.

> I'd LOVE a --output-file=/path/to/some/file which would just use that file, and not attempt to chown/chmod it in any way.

from "valgrind --tool=callgrind -- help"

    --callgrind-out-file=<f>  Output file name [callgrind.out.%p]

Does this do what you want?  Perhaps you'll could create a empty file in
that name as a normal user and then have valgrind write to it as root.

Ashley,


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