Correct you have to reboot. You could probably verify that by trying to reboot yourself, yes?
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Mitar <mmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > We are developing an extension to Android firmware which would allow > connecting to mesh networks. We would like to add permission which > would give application direct access to wpa_supplicant sockets and the > most official way for this it would seem that is adding an XML file > like following to /system/etc/permissions/: > > <permissions> > <permission name="android.permission.WPA_SUPPLICANT_CLIENT" > > <group gid="wifi" /> > </permission> > </permissions> > > But after adding such file application which requests this permission > is still not given wifi group. By reading (huge) > PackageManagerService.java file it seems that maybe configuration from > /system/etc/permissions/ is cached? So it is not just enough to add > this file to live system (and reboot)? > > So why is this not enough? Are we missing something? Is there a way to > reread /system/etc/permissions/ without rebooting? > > Best regards > > > Mitar > > -- > unsubscribe: > android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-porting%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer hack...@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. -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
