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Android System Programming
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Android System Programming

by Roger Ye
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
10h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Services

Services are programs that init launches and (optionally) restarts when they exit. Services take the form of:

service <name> <pathname> [ <argument> ]*    <option>    <option>    ... 

The service will be known by init as <name>. The actual name of the binary that is pointed to by <pathname> will not be recognized.

Options are modifiers to services. They affect how and when init runs the service. We can use the following goldfish-specific service as an example:

service goldfish-setup /system/etc/init.goldfish.sh     user root     group root     oneshot 

The name of the service is goldfish-setup and it runs the init.goldfish.sh script as the root user. The oneshot option means that this service won't restart when it exits.

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ISBN: 9781787125360