Re: [linuxtools-dev] remote Valgrind

[Corey Ashford <cjashfor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/15/2011 01:06 PM, Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Hi Corey,
> 
> Yes I have seen that bug.  It goes away IIRC and I thought I had checked
> in a simple patch to verify
> that the offending line doesn't try to access a null object, but
> apparently I did not.
> 
> I got the remote Valgrind stuff working over TCF, but I had to apply
> some tape to make it work with an actual remote system.  Running it with
> a local TCF agent works quite nicely but that really isn't the point of
> using the remote launcher.
> 
> At the moment I am rewriting the RemoteTab/RemoteConnection classes to
> deal with RSE hosts rather than TCF connections so the code won't know
> anything about TCF.  This will make the code much more generic and allow
> more flexibility in the set up (e.g. you can start a tcf-agent or use an
> rseserver, etc..).  The code only requires that there be a File
> Subsystem and Remote Command Subsystem at the moment.
> 
> I am currently testing the rewrite but ran into some issues on my laptop
> (can't restore my F14 VM which has my tcf-agent set up and trying to
> test with local RSE fails because the executable flag is not being set
> for the executable when it is uploaded).
> 
> If you would like to try it out, I can send you the files.

Yeah, I'd be happy to try it out!  Please send me the patch(es).

- Corey