Clarify where to set TMPDIR to have working FIFOs.

+ mention --vgdb-prefix clo as an alternative.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@12271

diff --git a/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml b/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml
index 717c2f2e5ee3811b13b46ecf57b8e42c628602fb..ad65e37f07e7024faa1c865bae46efbd752da6da 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml
+++ b/docs/xml/manual-core-adv.xml
@@ -546,7 +546,10 @@ of success.</para>
 <para>You can specify the temporary directory to use either via
 the <computeroutput>--with-tmpdir=</computeroutput> configure time
 flag, or by setting environment variable TMPDIR when running Valgrind
-(on the device, not the Android device).
+(on the Android device, not on the Android NDK development host).
+Another alternative is to specify the directory for the FIFOs using
+the <computeroutput>--vgdb-prefix=</computeroutput> Valgrind command
+line option.
 </para>
 
 <para>We hope to have a better story for temporary directory handling