Re: Valgrind porting

[Subhashish Pradhan]

Okay!

I read the ideas page, and it says as a starter, valgrind could be taught some linux ioctls.

ioctl() is a system call for controlling certain operations of hardware of the system. So teaching valgrind the syscall

means directing memcache tool to intercept the read/write operations of the syscall? Is this memcache tool the one

that handles read/write primitives of valgrind?

Or maybe I'm wrong?

Regards,

Subhashish

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:

Subhashish Pradhan, le Mon 06 Jan 2014 01:27:08 +0530, a écrit :

> Has anyone started working on porting valgrind to hurd?

Not that I know of.

> If not, I'd like to take up the task (and for GSOC).

Cool :)

> What would be the essential skills that would be required for this task?
>
> Shell scripting, understanding of C, and anything else?

Mostly understanding C, in particular the valgrind source code, to
understand how system calls are described in there.

You will also have to get a very good understanding of how MIG RPCs
work.

Samuel