Hi ImperatorRj, I'm not suppose to change the permissions of sysfs due to security reasons, they can only be modified by root user. My Service runs as a system user but needs to modify sysfs. is there any way to run my service's sysfs modification part as a root user.
thanks, shanth On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 8:27 PM, ImperatorRj <raul.a.jime...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On Apr 20, 8:15 pm, Shanth Murthy <shanth.murth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a question related to Android System Service. > > > > I have added system service into Android framework.. > > > > During the run-time of the system service, it has to modify certain sysfs > > parameter exposed by underlying device driver to achieve the required > > functionality. > > Native method is used to modify the sysfs parameter. > > > > Given the fact that, usually sysfs interface parameters are modified by > root > > user only, and system services don't have root permission. how do we > tackle > > this problem? > > > > Any pointer or suggestions would be highly appreciated. > > > > Thanks! > > You could modify the permissions either in init.rc if they are already > created or in the driver that creates them by callying a user process > with chown. > > -- > unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
