lipc sendEvent to execute binaries still works?

[nunojpg]

I see for example in:

https://github.com/AerisDev/KindleMe...emenupage.html

nativeBridge.setLipcProperty("com.lab126.system", "sendEvent", "; su -c 'killall show_alert.sh; /mnt/us/extensions/kindlemenu/bin/sh/show_alert.sh " + status + " 3 &'");

But I've been unable to execute shell scripts / binaries with this approach.

Is there a equivalent way of doing it in recent versions?

Thanks

[j.p.s]

Have you tried KUAL:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=203326

[NiLuJe]

I'm fairly sure the nativeBridge stuff went the way of the dodo back in something like 5.1.x or something *reaaaaaaalllly* old.

As for the system() calls via lipc, yep that's gone for sure. Again, a crapload of time ago.

[knc1]

Originally Posted by nunojpg

I see for example in:

https://github.com/AerisDev/KindleMe...emenupage.html

nativeBridge.setLipcProperty("com.lab126.system", "sendEvent", "; su -c 'killall show_alert.sh; /mnt/us/extensions/kindlemenu/bin/sh/show_alert.sh " + status + " 3 &'");

But I've been unable to execute shell scripts / binaries with this approach.

Is there a equivalent way of doing it in recent versions?

Thanks

As you noted in the link you quoted, the most recent update of that code was December 17, 2013.
Hmm....
That is approximately a zillion firmware revisions ago.

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Even if the above still worked, you would have to have a jail broken Kindle (the original, a K5) to use the code.

So if you really must have this "feature", buy an original K5, then install a firmware version earlier than 5.2, then jail break the device, and THEN you can play with that code.

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Note: KUAL replaced KindleMenu in January of 2013.
So you are looking at some really, really old code (like back in the days of "NativeBridge".

[nunojpg]

Thanks. I am using KUAL. I am just using "KindleMenu" as code snippet examples.

I'm trying to develop a WAF/Pillow app and wanted to have a way of interacting with shell scripts.

Maybe thats possible now by appending custom cmds to /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/debug_cmds.jsonand invoking then from lipc.

Anyway, is there a recent WAF app source code available to take as example?

[NiLuJe]

I'm fairly sure something awful happened to how "free" you were with WAF stuff, too, FWIW, which explains why you can't find anything recent .

[nunojpg]

I confirmed that it's possible to execute arbitrary commands by adding them to /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/debug_cmds.json, and executing with eg:

nativeBridge.dbgCmd(";usbnetwork","")

The second parameter allows to pass parameters to the command, so a shell script with exec can be used as a arbitrary command proxy.

[NiLuJe]

True, but that's considerably more intrusive .

(c.f., the bridge's piggybacking on ;log for an actual implementation of this idea).