Ah, yes, of course. That critical fact slipped my mind -- thanks Dianne! This is, of course, a major reason why ability to write to the SD card is controlled by an application permission.
Even without the limitations of FAT, file ownership is a tenuous concept with removable media. I have scripts to set up EC2 instances, and I have to force user UIDs in each created, so that the filesystems I mount on those instances can be consistent. And that's using the ext3 filesystem. On Aug 9, 3:25 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > You can't change the permissions on stuff in external storage. That uses a > FAT filesystem, which doesn't have permissions, so all files there simply > immutably use the permissions of the mount point. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
