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Commit 7f7337d6 authored by Janis Danisevskis's avatar Janis Danisevskis
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Clarifies that filesystem permission 0700 is not enforced as an invariant 

The 0700 permission on apps' home directories is not
enforced as a invariant. This change to the behavior
changes documentation reflects this.

Change-Id: I2257796b804574f3c6c7d273957625f4458fe81b
(cherry picked from commit b25a17b3)
parent dd3b48de

docs/html/preview/behavior-changes.jd

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<ul>

  <li>

    Private files’ file permissions can no longer be relaxed by the owner, and

    an attempt to do so using

    Private files’ file permissions should no longer be relaxed by the owner,

    and an attempt to do so using

    {@link android.content.Context#MODE_WORLD_READABLE} and/or

    {@link android.content.Context#MODE_WORLD_WRITEABLE}, will trigger a

    {@link java.lang.SecurityException}.

    <p class="note">

      <strong>Note:</strong> As of yet, this restriction is not fully enforced.

      Apps may still modify permissions to their private directory using

      native APIs or the {@link java.io.File File} API. However, we strongly

      discourage relaxing the permissions to the private directory.

    </p>

  </li>

  <li>

    Passing <code>file://</code> URIs outside the package domain may leave the