[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-04-03 Thread Chris Stratton
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 2:49:05 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: Or android itself would have to make that distinction for it, and each user-app pair would effectively have to have its own userid. That at least should be possible with platform-only changes. The app database would need a

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-04-01 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/01/2012 04:49 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:56:34 -0700, Chris Stratton wrote: On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:38:49 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: Instead of a user-id belonging to a human user, a user-id belong to an application. So even if they implemented ~ as a

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:56:34 -0700, Chris Stratton wrote: On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:38:49 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: Instead of a user-id belonging to a human user, a user-id belong to an application. So even if they implemented ~ as a home directory (which they may well do), it

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Stratton
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:38:49 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: Instead of a user-id belonging to a human user, a user-id belong to an application. So even if they implemented ~ as a home directory (which they may well do), it wouldn't deal with my case. The more significant consequence

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-28 Thread Chris Stratton
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:43:43 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a new android transformer. I'd like to share it with my wife. Not that it's multiuser in the sense that we can both use it simultaneously, but rather that when I use it, I'd have my identity, and she'd have hers. Or

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:30:33 -0700, Chris Stratton wrote: On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:43:43 PM UTC-4, Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a new android transformer. I'd like to share it with my wife. Not that it's multiuser in the sense that we can both use it simultaneously, but rather that when

[android-discuss] Re: Does android function as a multi-user system?

2012-03-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:08:16 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: Thanks. That's the most I realistically was hopping for. The Nokia 800 made the same mistake. There's really no reason that app developers can't be made to understand '~' as a directory name. Finding some documentation, I discover