[Commotion-dev] Android olsrd using JNI

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Its an interesting idea, but I think that getting root for that thread
is the hard part.  I think its worth trying but perhaps after we have a
simple Java wrapper for the olsrd.

I think this is the kind of thing they are trying to support in the
olsrd rewrite, since its all framework-based.

At the very least, it would be interesting to see if there is another
workable approach to getting root for operations on Android.  From what
I've seen, everything is using 'su' to start a process.

.hc

On 06/08/2012 05:43 PM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> Hello Hans, etc.
> 
> I had a thought over the past few days. Since we are already compiling
> olsrd natively for ARM, does it make sense to invoke/suspend olsrd
> through JNI?
> 
> As opposed to the way we are doing it now, this seems to have the
> advantage that olsrd can look like a Thread instead of a process that
> needs to be controlled via the shell. This will also give us the chance
> to potentially call functions in olsrd source directly to do things like
> re-read the configuration file.
> 
> I need to investigate whether running olsrd this way will limit its
> ability to run as root.
> 
> If you don't see anything absolutely objectionable to this, I will spend
> some time next week further evaluating the pros/cons to this approach.
> 
> Will
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