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* Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project
*
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*
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package dalvik.system;
/**
* Provides access to the Dalvik "zygote" feature, which allows a VM instance to
* be partially initialized and then fork()'d from the partially initialized
* state.
*
* @deprecated this is an internal Dalvik class that is not appropriate for
* general use. It will be removed from the public API in a future release.
*/
public class Zygote {
/*
* Bit values for "debugFlags" argument. The definitions are duplicated
* in the native code.
*/
/** enable debugging over JDWP */
public static final int DEBUG_ENABLE_DEBUGGER = 1;
/** enable JNI checks */
public static final int DEBUG_ENABLE_CHECKJNI = 1 << 1;
/** enable Java programming language "assert" statements */
public static final int DEBUG_ENABLE_ASSERT = 1 << 2;
/** disable the JIT compiler */
public static final int DEBUG_ENABLE_SAFEMODE = 1 << 3;
/**
* When set by the system server, all subsequent apps will be launched in
* VM safe mode.
*
* @hide
*/
public static boolean systemInSafeMode = false;
private Zygote() {}
/**
* Forks a new Zygote instance, but does not leave the zygote mode.
* The current VM must have been started with the -Xzygote flag. The
* new child is expected to eventually call forkAndSpecialize()
*
* @return 0 if this is the child, pid of the child
* if this is the parent, or -1 on error
*/
native public static int fork();
/**
* Forks a new VM instance. The current VM must have been started
* with the -Xzygote flag. <b>NOTE: new instance keeps all
* root capabilities. The new process is expected to call capset()</b>.
*
* @param uid the UNIX uid that the new process should setuid() to after
* fork()ing and and before spawning any threads.
* @param gid the UNIX gid that the new process should setgid() to after
* fork()ing and and before spawning any threads.
* @param gids null-ok; a list of UNIX gids that the new process should
* setgroups() to after fork and before spawning any threads.
* @param debugFlags bit flags that enable debugging features.
* @param rlimits null-ok an array of rlimit tuples, with the second
* dimension having a length of 3 and representing
* (resource, rlim_cur, rlim_max). These are set via the posix
* setrlimit(2) call.
*
* @return 0 if this is the child, pid of the child
* if this is the parent, or -1 on error.
*/
native public static int forkAndSpecialize(int uid, int gid, int[] gids,
int debugFlags, int[][] rlimits);
/**
* Forks a new VM instance.
* @deprecated use {@link Zygote#forkAndSpecialize(int, int, int[], int, int[][])}
*/
@Deprecated
public static int forkAndSpecialize(int uid, int gid, int[] gids,
boolean enableDebugger, int[][] rlimits) {
int debugFlags = enableDebugger ? DEBUG_ENABLE_DEBUGGER : 0;
return forkAndSpecialize(uid, gid, gids, debugFlags, rlimits);
}
/**
* Special method to start the system server process. In addition to the
* common actions performed in forkAndSpecialize, the pid of the child
* process is recorded such that the death of the child process will cause
* zygote to exit.
*
* @param uid the UNIX uid that the new process should setuid() to after
* fork()ing and and before spawning any threads.
* @param gid the UNIX gid that the new process should setgid() to after
* fork()ing and and before spawning any threads.
* @param gids null-ok; a list of UNIX gids that the new process should
* setgroups() to after fork and before spawning any threads.
* @param debugFlags bit flags that enable debugging features.
* @param rlimits null-ok an array of rlimit tuples, with the second
* dimension having a length of 3 and representing
* (resource, rlim_cur, rlim_max). These are set via the posix
* setrlimit(2) call.
*
* @return 0 if this is the child, pid of the child
* if this is the parent, or -1 on error.
*/
native public static int forkSystemServer(int uid, int gid,
int[] gids, int debugFlags, int[][] rlimits);
/**
* Special method to start the system server process.
* @deprecated use {@link Zygote#forkSystemServer(int, int, int[], int, int[][])}
*/
@Deprecated
public static int forkSystemServer(int uid, int gid, int[] gids,
boolean enableDebugger, int[][] rlimits) {
int debugFlags = enableDebugger ? DEBUG_ENABLE_DEBUGGER : 0;
return forkAndSpecialize(uid, gid, gids, debugFlags, rlimits);
}
}