[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