[android-kernel] Re: creating new processes insternals

2010-05-08 Thread Vesmar
asons (zygote is an empty VM instance, ready > > to spawn/fork off real apps; it has many libraries preloaded in its > > address space, etc.). > > >http://developer.android.com/reference/dalvik/system/Zygote.html > > > Not sure why multiple threads though. > > &g

[android-kernel] creating new processes insternals

2010-05-06 Thread Vesmar
Hi all, Im studing how Android creates new processes and found two scenarios. when I am running native programs on a terminal on Android (ps, ls, mkdir, etc) all programs are created in the standard way, that is, fork (clone) and execve system calls. The process name on task struct is set by the

[android-kernel] transform a standard linux kernel on Android kernel

2009-10-15 Thread Vesmar
Hi all, I'm very interested in test some pieces of Android Software on my installed x86 linux. My first tries was with the Dalvik VM and I found that is necessary apply the ashmem patch to my linux kernel and create the /dev/ashmem file (with mknod I think). My question is does any one know the