Re: [android-kernel] Re: Are the DVM registers shared between threads?

2012-04-28 Thread Pascal Wittmann
On 04/27/2012 06:19 PM, Chris Stratton wrote: > On Friday, April 27, 2012 2:08:45 AM UTC-4, andria wrote: > My suspicion is that as a matter of convenience each thread would have it's > own VM registers, but I am confident that any thread within a process can > discover the values of the DVM regi

[android-kernel] Re: Are the DVM registers shared between threads?

2012-04-27 Thread Chris Stratton
On Friday, April 27, 2012 2:08:45 AM UTC-4, andria wrote: > > Maybe I'm wrong but I think they are not shared because applications run > in different processes. The question regarded threads rather than processes. On Linux threads are implemented as lightweight processes, but part of what make

[android-kernel] Re: Are the DVM registers shared between threads?

2012-04-26 Thread andria
Hi, Maybe I'm wrong but I think they are not shared because applications run in different processes. Regards Le jeudi 19 avril 2012 16:19:03 UTC+2, Pascal Wittmann a écrit : > > Hi, > > I'm currently working on a security type system that enforces a > noninterference-like property based on a st

[android-kernel] Re: Are the DVM registers shared between threads?

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Stratton
On Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:19:03 AM UTC-4, Pascal Wittmann wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm currently working on a security type system that enforces a > noninterference-like property based on a static analysis of dalvik > bytecode. In the context of this analysis I need to know if DMV > registers are sh