On 29 May 2012 17:19, Latimerius <l4t1m3r...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Kostya Vasilyev <kmans...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > The assets of package B are probably open and memory mapped by package
> A's
> > process.
>
> I don't know...I thought of this but I wasn't able to confirm it.  A
> can access files after B's uninstallation that were never read or even
> opened before B's uninstallation.  Unlike the test, in the actual app
> where I bumped into this, B is an APK of almost a megabyte, I mean
> it's not small, and still A was able to read in files (tens or
> hundreds kB in size) after uninstallation that had never been accessed
> before uninstallation.
>

Weren't these files A's assets? If so, the were in A's .apk file, so even
you uninstall or remove (rm) that file, filesystem still got it unless all
handles refering to it are closed. That's how linux fs works.

Regards,
Marcin Orlowski

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