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diff --git a/dvb-spec/README.valgrind b/dvb-spec/README.valgrind new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c1ce7c994 --- /dev/null +++ b/dvb-spec/README.valgrind @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +valgrind-1.0pre3-dvb.patch enables checking correct usage +of the the Linux DVB API ioctls with valgrind +(http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/). Or, more to the point, +it allows you to check your DVB software with valgrind +without getting all those "unknown ioctl" warnings. + +Notes: +- only frontend and demux ioctls are currently implemented +- some ioctls take structs as arguments; due to padding, valgrind + will complain about uninitialized data passed to the ioctl unless + you memset() the whole struct to some defined value + +Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de> |