1 Running D-Bus clients with Valgrind
4 When running programs using libdbus in Valgrind, some special care needs to be
5 taken so as to avoid incorrect detection of leaks in libdbus. To avoid these
6 false positives, do the following:
8 * Grab a copy of the D-Bus source code
10 * Run configure with the --enable-developer and --with-valgrind options
14 * Either make sure your code calls dbus_shutdown() (at least while running in
15 Valgrind) or set DBUS_MESSAGE_CACHE=0 in your environment
17 * Run Valgrind on your program with the /path/to/dbus/source/dbus/.libs in your
20 Your Valgrind log should now be free of any (spurious) libdbus-related leaks.
22 For the curious, the DBUS_MESSAGE_CACHE=0 is required because by
23 default, libdbus uses a recyclable pool of message structs. These help