On Dec 7, 8:36 pm, "Dianne Hackborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For application style permissions, what you generally do is define a new gid
> that your device is published under (so it is not world readable/writeable),
How to define a group statically? (Maybe editing kernel files? Is
there any file containing group ids?)
> add an entry to etc/permissions.xml mapping that gid to a permission string,
I did that.
> and add an item in the frameworks AndroidManifest.xml describing that
> permission.
This one? frameworks/base/core/res/AndroidManifest.xml
> (Sorry about not giving full paths to these things, I don't yet have these
> things at the tip of my fingers in the new tree layout we moved to for the
> open source release. :p)
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Luca Belluccini
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> > I'm trying to create a fake character device.
> > I want to make it usable within the provided Android emulator.
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> > Firstly, I recompiled the Android Kernel editing the .config file,
> > adding CONFIG_MODULES.
> > Then, I wrote a module managing "/dev/mydev" (it acts as a 80 char
> > buffer) and crosscompiled it for arm architecture.
> > I ran the emulator and pushed busybox (for creating the /dev/mydev
> > with mknod) and loaded the module with insmod.
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> > Now, both shell and common activities can interact with it, by using
> > standard open/close/write/etc...
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> > I would like to create a specific permission for that device and make
> > it not readable from common Activities.
> > Is there some documentation/hints/links?
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> > I know Android has a specific HAL but there's no documentation.
> > Thank you.
>
> > Luca
>
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> Dianne Hackborn
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