On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 03:55:02PM -0800, enh wrote: > as i've said, Android doesn't have /etc/passwd (or /etc/group), and it > doesn't have setpwent/getpwent/endpwent (or equivalents). you *can* do > uid/gid or name lookups though, because they do make some degree of > sense. (so id(1) works.) i've considered implementing getpwent so that > it would cycle through the well known users, but we don't actually > have an example of anything that would use it, and it's really not > obvious that we'd be doing anyone any favors --- code calling getpwent > that wants to run on Android needs to think long and hard about > exactly what it means by that, and whether it makes any sense at all.
The main application I've seen that makes _any_ sense is tab-completion of usernames in the shell. > the fact that Android tends to be pretty locked down with SELinux > means it's going to be tricky to test a lot of toybox things, but > getting to a point where i can run the test suite is definitely a > goal. just not a priority (because i can run the tests on the desktop > with bionic). Is there any guide to getting bionic built and working on a desktop system, short of doing a complete android build? I tried a while back with the gentoobionic repo which was setup to work without the android build system, but didn't get anywhere with it. This is not something I have a lot of time to spend on, but I'd like it if I could get something working to evaluate differences between musl and bionic. Rich _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
