[Aboriginal] Proposed patches to support modern toolchain

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Sat Feb 13 08:36:03 PST 2016


On 02/12/2016 02:49 PM, Christopher Barry wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:51:30 -0600
> Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> 
>> but android repurposed "users" to mean something else
> 
> uh, slaves?

No, I mean they assign each app its own UID (at install time, I think)
so its processes and files and such are private by default.

It's clever, it just means a lot of the conventional user manipulation
stuff in libc was stubbed out, let alone utmpx and friends.

Rob



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