[android-developers] Question about purpose of CALL_PRIVILEGED permission (not working as stated in the docs)

Hi Dianne (and anbody else),

on
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission.html
I read

CALL_PRIVILEGED:
Allows an application to call any phone number, _including emergency
numbers_, without going through the Dialer user interface for the user
to confirm the call being placed.

while on this previous post
http://markmail.org/message/vokag6tjz55qct5j#query:+page:1+mid:edtclmkfkd5qse65+state:results
you (Dianne) replied:

> Sorry, emergency dialing is not something we can expose to third party
applications.

Above reads contradictory, therefore I'm wondering, what's the purpose
of CALL_PRIVILEGED that can be set in the manifest?
Or is it not supposed to be in the docs anymore (deprecated)? In the
docs it's explicitly mentioned that "emergency numbers are included".

Thanks!
Mathias

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