Processes that continue holding open fds on the sdcard a little after it is requested to be unmounted will be killed so that it can unmount.
We don't want the system process to be able to access the sdcard to avoid these kinds of issues (and just general security cleanliness), so that it does not have permission to access it. On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen the following explanation about why the system user is not > allowed to read/write the sdcard: > > "The system user is not allowed to touch the SD card so that the > system does not get killed if the card is removed or unmounted." > > I'm looking for some clarification on that statement. Does it mean > that the single process with UID system that is accessing the sdcard > will be killed or all processes running with the UID system will be > killed. Better yet, can someone point me to the code that will be > doing said killing. > > -- > unsubscribe: > [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> > website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
