commit 03abb8179f0d912e6dabfc0e2b0f129d85066d17
author Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@google.com> Mon Jan 04 18:43:19 2010 -0800
committer Dianne Hackborn <hackbod@google.com> Tue Jan 05 15:47:05 2010 -0800
tree 96bb3a814c750fd498db0171dab2e40bb9b1ae8f
parent 129ef0aab3506f3cd80506843f42813ba20ce8ea

Kill the task killers.

The ActivityManager.restartPackage() API is now deprecated, and no longer
allows applications to mess up the state of other applications.  This was
being abused by task killers, causing users to think their other applications
had bugs.

A new API is introduced for task killers,
ActivityManager.killBackgroundProcesses(), which allows these applications
to kill processes but only the same amount that the out of memory
killer does, thus causing no permanent damage.  The old restartPackage()
API is now a wrapper for calling this new API.

There is also a new private forceStopPackage() API that is used for the
system's force stop UI which does what the old restartPackage() API did.

core/java/android/app/IActivityManager.java

diff --git a/core/java/android/app/IActivityManager.java b/core/java/android/app/IActivityManager.java
index ca6bfa7..016d465 100644
--- a/core/java/android/app/IActivityManager.java
+++ b/core/java/android/app/IActivityManager.java
@@ -216,7 +216,8 @@
     
     public void getMemoryInfo(ActivityManager.MemoryInfo outInfo) throws RemoteException;
     
-    public void restartPackage(final String packageName) throws RemoteException;
+    public void killBackgroundProcesses(final String packageName) throws RemoteException;
+    public void forceStopPackage(final String packageName) throws RemoteException;
     
     // Note: probably don't want to allow applications access to these.
     public void goingToSleep() throws RemoteException;
@@ -424,7 +425,7 @@
     int GET_MEMORY_INFO_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+75;
     int GET_PROCESSES_IN_ERROR_STATE_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+76;
     int CLEAR_APP_DATA_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+77;
-    int RESTART_PACKAGE_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+78;
+    int FORCE_STOP_PACKAGE_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+78;
     int KILL_PIDS_FOR_MEMORY_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+79;
     int GET_SERVICES_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+80;
     int REPORT_PSS_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+81;
@@ -448,4 +449,5 @@
     int START_ACTIVITY_INTENT_SENDER_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+99;
     int OVERRIDE_PENDING_TRANSITION_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+100;
     int HANDLE_APPLICATION_WTF_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+101;
+    int KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES_TRANSACTION = IBinder.FIRST_CALL_TRANSACTION+102;
 }