Re: adb shell spwns non-root shell for -tests builds

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Bernhard Rosenkränzer bernhard.rosenkranzer@linaro.org wrote:

On 23 August 2012 00:54, Zygmunt Krynicki zygmunt.krynicki@linaro.org wrote:

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Does "adb root" work for you?

Where should I run it? I never had to do that with -eng builds.

Just run "adb root" instead of "adb shell" on your computer.

The former is supposed to give you a root shell, the latter gives you a shell as some user who may or may not be root (depending on the build type).

Can you give background what's the approach android takes here? e.g. when do they give you root and when do you get a "unprivileged" shell and why is that?

Also, does it mean that a tests build is rather a production builds with test and we would like to have an eng+tests target?