Correct, applications can't read that directory.  They can only read their
own sub-directiry,

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Cecco <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> sorry for my english, I'am an italian student.
> I need help. I have to open, from my application, /data directory, but
> using the "ls -l" command in adb shell, I read following lines :
>
> drwxrwx--x System System      2009-05-08   11:28 data
>
> and when I launch this code :
>
> File data = new File("/data");
> if(data.isDirectory()){
>   Log.v(TAG, "directory");
> }
> String []child = data.list();
> Log.v(TAG, String.valueOf(child.length));
>
> I have this output :
>
> "directory
>  0
> "
>
> So my application is not able to read files located into this
> directory.
> Somebody can help me?
>
> >
>


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