As of 1.5 applications can no longer use su.
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:59 PM, toto <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> hi
> I work on rooted unlocked G1, latest JS firmware ADP1.5
> I wrote some application that perform some root actions in the /system
> of course, when messing up /system requires to remount that partition
> but that's not my issue.
>
> the code is fairly simple (attached at bottom of this message).
> however when running a command as root (for example executeAsRoot("su
> ls -l /system")) I get exit code 255 (i.e. -1 or failure)
> when running that command as non-root - it runs ok with exit code 0.
> The strange thing that this happens only in the real G1 . On the
> emulator, root commands work just fine.
> if i open a terminal on the G1 and perform su - I get the
> "allow"/"deny" screen but after that I am able to perform actions as
> root.
> How can I debug the reason for the application process failure ?
>
>
> private int executeAsRoot(String command) {
> Process process = null;
> int exitVal = -1;
> try {
> process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
> process.waitFor();
> exitVal = process.exitValue();
> m_logsView.append("\nexecuted:"+command +"
> ->"+((exitVal==1)?
> "success" : exitVal));
> Log.i("executeAsRoot","Exit value is:"+exitVal);
> } catch (IOException e) {
> m_logsView.append("\nexecuted:"+command +"
> ->"+e.getLocalizedMessage
> ());
> Log.e("executeAsRoot",e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
> } catch (InterruptedException e) {
> m_logsView.append("\nexecuted:"+command +"
> ->"+e.getLocalizedMessage
> ());
> Log.e("executeAsRoot",e.getLocalizedMessage(), e);
> } finally {
> if (process != null) {
> process.destroy();
> }
> }
> return exitVal;
>
> }
>
> >
>
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