[Commotion-dev] batphone/olsr GUI dev sync

[Jeremy Lakeman]

Actually, I've just reworked the way batphone executes shell commands
pretty much exactly like that in the development branch, though I'm
not keeping the shell open. These changes also make it easier to tell
the different between su permission errors and errors from executing
other commands, simplifying a fair amount of code and giving better
error messages.

We've had one phone that was impossible to root permanently, so the
software would always check for root permission when it was started.
But some other phones are very aggressive at killing background
processes (eg samsung's), which would cause the root test to pop up
quite frequently.

So we now run a foreground service when the software is "on" which
prevents us being killed, and we remember if we had root permission in
a setting that is only cleared on boot. As well as tweaking a couple
of other places where running commands as root could be avoided.

0.08 is feature complete, and we've pretty much run out of blocking
issues. So you can expect to see a release candidate build soon.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
> Hey Jeremy and all,
>
> I would like to try to keep the OLSR Android GUI app that I'm working on
> as in sync as possible with batphone, since all of the adhoc/edify/olsrd
> infrastructure will be exactly the same.  So far I've been working with
> batphone 0.0.7, which seems to be the head of master in git.  But there
> is a lot of work in the 'development' branch, some of which looks
> related.  Does it make sense for me to switch over to syncing with your
> development branch?
>
> Also, some feedback on the command line stuff: currently, in the setup
> wizard in 0.0.7 asks for root permission on each step.  I generally do
> not grant apps permanent root perms, so that means I have to confirm
> granting root perms on each step of the wizard, and probably each step
> of the app running.  I propose that this app instead launch a root
> shell, then execute commands as root by sending them to this shell.
>
> This way, batphone will only ever ask once for root permission when it
> needs it.  We've done this in Lil' Debi and some other apps and it works
> well.
>
> .hc
>
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