Re: [Valgrind-users] Using valgrind from a test suite

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

On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Olly Betts wrote:

> A third possibility I've just thought of is to use:
>
> valgrind --logfile-fd=-1 /dev/null [program and args]
>
> (Or redirect to a particular fd and direct that to /dev/null but then
> that fd might be used by something - -1 is nice as it always works...)

That seems a good way to do it, since it doesn't require any changes.

Is -1 the file descriptor for /dev/null, or is it just an invalid file
descriptor and thus the output goes nowhere?

I just tried it, you don't need to write /dev/null in the command line as
you have above.

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