Fix 334788 clarify doc about --log-file initial program directory
Behaviour is kept unchanged, a paragraph is added in the doc to
clarify.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@13979 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a4f02a1..a7065b5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@
334049 lzcnt fails silently (x86_32)
334705 sendmsg and recvmsg should guard against bogus msghdr fields.
334727 Build fails with -Werror=format-security
+334788 clarify doc about --log-file initial program directory
n-i-bz Fix KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP ioctl handling
n-i-bz s390x: Fix memory corruption for multithreaded applications
n-i-bz vex arm->IR: allow PC as basereg in some LDRD cases
diff --git a/docs/internals/3_9_BUGSTATUS.txt b/docs/internals/3_9_BUGSTATUS.txt
index 63e6ba5..06df9bb 100644
--- a/docs/internals/3_9_BUGSTATUS.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/3_9_BUGSTATUS.txt
@@ -175,7 +175,3 @@
========================================================================
========================================================================
-Mon May 12 16:19:52 CEST 2014
-
-334788 Changing the current directory confuses Valgrind when it tries
- to write to log files for forked children
diff --git a/docs/xml/manual-core.xml b/docs/xml/manual-core.xml
index ab8f591..b6be6dc 100644
--- a/docs/xml/manual-core.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/manual-core.xml
@@ -892,6 +892,13 @@
<para>If an <option>%</option> is followed by any other character, it
causes an abort.</para>
+
+ <para>If the file name specifies a relative file name, it is put
+ in the program's initial working directory : this is the current
+ directory when the program started its execution after the fork
+ or after the exec. If it specifies an absolute file name (ie.
+ starts with '/') then it is put there.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>