OpenBinder
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
|---|---|
| Type | Inter-process communication |
| Website | OpenBinder docs |
OpenBinder is a system for Inter-process communication.[1] It was developed at Be Inc. and then Palm, Inc.[2] and was the basis for the Binder framework[3] now used in the Android operating system developed by Google.[4]
OpenBinder allows processes to present interfaces which may be called by other threads. Each process maintains a thread pool which may be used to service such requests. OpenBinder takes care of reference counting, recursion back into the original thread, and of course the inter-process communication itself. On the Linux version of OpenBinder, the communication is achieved using ioctls on a given file descriptor, communicating with a kernel driver.
References
- ^ OpenBinder website
- ^ Eugenia Loli-Queru, Introduction to OpenBinder and Interview with Dianne Hackborn, OSNews, 14 February 2006.
- ^ Aleksandar Gargenta, Deep Dive into Android IPC/Binder Framework, What is Binder?, 17 February 2013
- ^ Ben Leslie, Android: strace runtime, Benno’s website, 18 November 2007.