Hi On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:32:57 PM UTC+2, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > Specifically, each process has a pool of "binder threads" which sit there > waiting for incoming IPCs from other process. When an IPC is dispatched to > your process, one of these threads comes out of the pool to process it. > These may come to you directly through an IBinder you publish from a > Service to another process, semi-directly through calls from another process > to a ContentProvider you have published, or indirectly from a wide range of > IPCs the system does into app processes to tell it to launch an activity, > receive an intent, etc. >
I have been trying to get a better understanding of how this works. Will every thread have it's own iocl/binder with the kernel or will there still be a main binder thread dispatching call to the processing threads? Thanks > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Mark Murphy <mmu...@commonsware.com>wrote: > >> If I understand correctly, for IPC via AIDL, the object that is >> responding to the IPC is invoked on a binder thread. The object >> definitely is not invoked on the main application thread. >> >> They may have additional uses, but that's the one I can think off of >> the top o' my head. >> >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:37 PM, DanH <danh...@ieee.org> wrote: >> > I tried Google, but the only answer I could find is "They were created >> > by the system and they don't do any harm." I'm not worried about them >> > per se, but was just curious about what they actually do and why >> > they're there. >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy >> http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> Android 2.2 Programming Books: http://commonsware.com/books >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Android Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to android-d...@googlegroups.com >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> android-develop...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >> > > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > hac...@android.com > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
