[android-porting] froyo netd

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin
I just want to know the follow question: 1.what's the role of netd in android 2.why android need this daemon? 3.what's the difference between netd and inetd in linux? thanks -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting

[android-porting] froyo - netd daemon

2010-11-09 Thread guru
HI All This is the daemon which is running in froyo build ... it is not in eclari. I want to know why they added this? from code base, I see it has code related to Tethering controller,, softap controller Please let me know whether they added netd for Tethering support or does it support any othe

[android-porting] froyo netd question

2010-12-15 Thread Kevin
I notice that the froyo X86 add an daemon named netd.The code location is "/system/netd" . I have following question: 1. what's the role of netd? 2. why do they add this daemon? 3.what's the difference betwwen netd and inetd in linux? 4. Does this support 3G usb serial ? -- unsubscribe: android-p

Re: [android-porting] froyo netd question

2010-12-15 Thread Robert Greenwalt
1 - collects network management functionality. 2 - to put this privileged code in a protected process and not have to have the whole system server process privileged. 3 - totally different 4 - no On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Kevin wrote: > I notice that the froyo X86 add an daemon named netd