[Valgrind-users] Looking for a usage trick

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Hi all,
I have an application that spawns quite a few children processes. These
children cannot be run standalone, they have to spawned by that master
process.&nbsp; What I would like to do is to spawn just one of the children
with Valgrind. I can tell the master application which child to spawn with
Valgrind via a command-line switch, but the actual spawning is where I
am at a loss.&nbsp; The master app is doing an execl() call,&nbsp; so I
would need to explicitly list all Valgrind options in that call and then
the application name. This is not very useful since I won't be able to
change skins and options on the fly.
One way I could do it is tweak Valgrind code to read options from an
environment variable, say VALGRIND_OPTS="-v --logfile=/tmp/VLOG" --leak-check=yes"
and then in execl() call do something like:
if ( valgrind switch is set )
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; execl ( ... , "valgrind", "Application", .... )
 else
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; execl ( ... , "Application", ... )
I would rather not modify Valgrind source, since I would have to carry
over changes between Valgrind versions. Is there any easier&nbsp; way to
do what I am trying to accomplish?&nbsp; Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
 Alex Ivershen
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