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diff --git a/source3/tdb/tdb.c b/source3/tdb/tdb.c
index 0ec770ed81..ab50f40ef6 100644
--- a/source3/tdb/tdb.c
+++ b/source3/tdb/tdb.c
@@ -20,6 +20,27 @@
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
*/
+
+
+/* NOTE: If you use tdbs under valgrind, and in particular if you run
+ * tdbtorture, you may get spurious "uninitialized value" warnings. I
+ * think this is because valgrind doesn't understand that the mmap'd
+ * area may be written to by other processes. Memory can, from the
+ * point of view of the grinded process, spontaneously become
+ * initialized.
+ *
+ * I can think of a few solutions. [mbp 20030311]
+ *
+ * 1 - Write suppressions for Valgrind so that it doesn't complain
+ * about this. Probably the most reasonable but people need to
+ * remember to use them.
+ *
+ * 2 - Use IO not mmap when running under valgrind. Not so nice.
+ *
+ * 3 - Use the special valgrind macros to mark memory as valid at the
+ * right time. Probably too hard -- the process just doesn't know.
+ */
+
#ifdef STANDALONE
#if HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include <config.h>