Re: [Valgrind-developers] adding system call support

[Bob F. <bfr...@si...>]

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Tom Hughes wrote:
>> Unfortunately I did not record the exact assertion message and don't
>> have an unmodified valgrind immediately available.  However, the
>> assertion was from valgrind and was due to support for timer_create
>> not being implemented.  It said not to "panic" since it is easy to add
>> system calls to valgrind.
>
> Was it this message?
>
> --9067-- WARNING: unhandled syscall: 266
> --9067-- Do not panic.  You may be able to fix this easily.
> --9067-- Read the file README_MISSING_SYSCALL_OR_IOCTL.
>
> If so then that isn't an assertion, it's just a warning and valgrind
> will happily carry on return ENOSYS to the application code.

Yes, it was this message.  I must have been confused.  However, the 
program did immediately crash after this point. It was probably our 
own assertion because timer_create returned an error.

Clearly more investigation on my part is necessary.

Bob
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