[android-developers] Re: Killing rogue plug-in threads within an Android application

Hi,

Can you framework load these untrusted Threads into a separate
process ? If yes just kill that process.

Regards

On Jul 13, 11:16 pm, DCA <onl...@dcarlson.info> wrote:
> I've developed a framework that loads potentially untrusted plug-in
> code from a remote repository into my framework's process at runtime
> (using OSGi). Each plug-in is started on a thread that my framework
> holds a reference to. Problematically, misbehaving plug-ins may
> continue to run, even when asked to stop by the framework using
> conventional means (i.e. setting a flag). Because of this, I need a
> way to forceably kill the thread a problem plug-in is running on,
> along with any additional threads the plug-in thread may have created.
> Since I can't rely on "normal" methods of managing plug-in threads
> (i.e. using a flag or relying on the thread obeying an interrupted
> exception), I've tried sending the plug-in thread's id into
> android.os.Process.killProcess, but this doesn't seem to work. I've
> also tried using ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses, but this
> method doesn't seem to operate at the thread level.
>
> Any other ideas?
> DCA

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