Start C/C++daemon from Android application

[Siddartha]

Hi ,


How do we start a C / C++ daemon from Android application? The
requirement could be that there is UI settings (on/off , say from
Settings like application) to start / stop the C/C++ daemon.
We already have the C daemon running from Android emulator (adb shell)
by running ./mydaemon from the prompt.

What is the best practice to start/stop the daemon from the Android
application?
Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated

Thanks!

[Pavan Savoy]

Most daemons are run by having a service in the init.rc
as in

service my_daemon_service mydaemon <args>
     user root
     ... group permissions.. etc..

and in your c/c++ application you would do a property_set("ctl.start", "my_daemon_service");

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[Pavan Savoy]

Yes, correct ..
look at wpa_supplicant for example..

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:51 AM, <pothapragad...@wipro.com> wrote:

 

Thanks for the reply!

I was just wondering if if i put 'disabled' in init.rc for 'mydaemon', then it would not be started by default during bootup process. Isn't so?

 

Thanks again for the information

 

Rgds,

Siddartha

 

 

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