This has nothing to do with services.  If a process hosting a content
provider goes away, any processes that are currently clients of that
provider also are killed.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Formosalf <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a quick experiment about service and app.
> Ap who bound the service will be killed by system if the service dies.
>
> Here is my experiment steps:
> 1. start camera and taking a picture
> 2. kill the android.process.media within adb shell.
> 3. the camera will killed by system with following logcat.
>
>
> I/ActivityManager(   60): Process android.process.media (pid 1968) has
> died.
> I/ActivityThread( 1942): Removing dead content provider: media
> I/ActivityThread( 1962): Removing dead content provider: media
> I/ActivityManager(   60): Killing app com.android.camera (pid 1942) because
> provider com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider is in dying process
> android.process.media
> I/Process (   60): Sending signal. PID: 1942 SIG: 9
> I/ActivityManager(   60): Killing app com.android.music (pid 1962) because
> provider com.android.providers.media.MediaProvider is in dying process
> android.process.media
> I/Process (   60): Sending signal. PID: 1962 SIG: 9
> D/Zygote  (   33): Process 1968 terminated by signal (15)
>
>
> Following is my questions.
> 1. is camera killed by ibinder?
> 2. is there any way to handle the service died in java ap? because in low
> memory condition, the service is easy to be killed. Since service will
> restart later, maybe AP can just wait for these services restart instead of
> killing by system. It seems easy to handle it in native with ibinder's
> deadnotifier, but the whole story seems different in java layer.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
>


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