Re: [android-developers] READ_LOGS permission is not granted to 3rd party applications in Jelly Bean (api 16)

Let me just respectfully say that I don't understand the decision.
The API is potentially very dangerous, yes, but that is why it requires
a permission.

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On 07/12/2012 07:24 PM, Mark Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@android.com> wrote:
>> however every app can read the logs containing only the lines
>> *they* have written, without needing any permission.
> OK, I'll bite: how do you do this? Most of the read-the-logs code that
> I have seen uses logcat via Runtime#exec(), and I don't see a
> command-line switch on logcat to limit output to just your own
> process' lines.
>
> (BTW, count me as one of the fans of this decision, despite the very
> loud grumblings I expect you will receive from various quarters)
>
> Thanks!
>


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