well intents are a form of ipc ,right?
when do we use binders for ipc and when intents?
what are the plus and the cons?

On Nov 25, 2:09 am, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> It depends on what you are doing.  This is pretty much all standard Linux
> stuff -- filesystem permissions, passing fds through sockets, etc.
>  (Actually it is mostly really just generic Unix stuff.)  You would probably
> be best looking specifically at Unix/Linux to find out the information you
> want, than asking here.
>
> The binder is the main Android-specific thing, but for purposes of security
> it is really the same semantics as passing an fd through a socket.
>
> 2009/11/24 dane131 <[email protected]>
>
>
>
> > well in what way do the kernel mechanisms allow the processes to see
> > each other files(when the ids are the same),through shared
> > memory,sockets?is a process with the same id with another one,allowed
> > to write its address space?
>
> > On 24 Νοέ, 05:10, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > They are allowed to do IPC between each other if the the things that
> > check
> > > uids allow it.  Your question is a little too general to answer more
> > > specifically than that.
>
> > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM, dane131 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > well,i am quite confused with the user ids stuff and what they mean in
> > > > the process level.In Linux,every process uses its own virtual address
> > > > space and no process can write to the address space of another
> > > > process.So the communication between two processes is conducted via
> > > > IPC mechanims which are part of the Linux kernel.Are two processes
> > > > with different user ids allowed to ipc?
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