Re: [Valgrind-users] Valgrind with linux daemon

[Philippe W. <phi...@sk...>]

On Tue, 2015-03-03 at 04:59 +0000, sankoor sampath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am very new valgrind, pl help me out:
> I have daemon running on linux machine, in which i have injected 1MB
> memory leak & trying to find memory leak in a daemon using valgrind.
> But am not able to get the proper memory leak ouptut , Pl find the
> below the valgrind o/p:
...
> ==2476==
> 0513-059 The FSRM Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 2477.
> ==2476==
Isn't the above indicating that the daemon is started as a child process
of 2476 ?

Then you should use
   --trace-children=yes
to ensure valgrind also instruments the daemon process.


Philippe