Re: [Valgrind-developers] Proposed valgrind environment-variable patch

[Paul F. <pj...@wa...>]

On 26-10-24 16:58, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> Paul Floyd via Valgrind-developers writes:
>> 1. Using a / in environment variables doesn't work with most (all?) shells.
> 
> Also hyphens; but, as noted in my previous message, this is only a minor
> disadvantage since one can set the variables using env rather than shell
> builtins. This is also what the tests in the patch do, and it works for
> the intended use case of simplifying scripts.

Sorry to be so difficult, but I think that it's best to get things like 
this right before letting them out into the wild.

How about just having VALGRIND_TRYOPTS or VALGRIND_TRY_OPTS. That would 
be the same as VALGRIND_OPTS but not result in failure if there's an 
unrecognized option.

A+
Paul