From b3e4ef37021a9e5518fdbc7d0cbb0a1709d5301b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Egnor <egnor@google.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:03:35 -0700
Subject: COMMENT ONLY change to add some warnings about ParcelFileDescriptor
 behavior with Parcel.writeValue().

Change-Id: If55fcce29559379855735ff5297cf4f46d5d6be6
Bug: 2847738
---
 core/java/android/os/Parcel.java               | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 core/java/android/os/ParcelFileDescriptor.java |  5 +++++
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/core/java/android/os/Parcel.java b/core/java/android/os/Parcel.java
index 8ad600c644f3..bb6357e55b19 100644
--- a/core/java/android/os/Parcel.java
+++ b/core/java/android/os/Parcel.java
@@ -437,6 +437,12 @@ public final class Parcel {
     /**
      * Write a FileDescriptor into the parcel at the current dataPosition(),
      * growing dataCapacity() if needed.
+     *
+     * <p class="caution">The file descriptor will not be closed, which may
+     * result in file descriptor leaks when objects are returned from Binder
+     * calls.  Use {@link ParcelFileDescriptor#writeToParcel} instead, which
+     * accepts contextual flags and will close the original file descriptor
+     * if {@link Parcelable#PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE} is set.</p>
      */
     public final native void writeFileDescriptor(FileDescriptor val);
 
@@ -1000,7 +1006,7 @@ public final class Parcel {
     /**
      * Flatten a generic object in to a parcel.  The given Object value may
      * currently be one of the following types:
-     * 
+     *
      * <ul>
      * <li> null
      * <li> String
@@ -1023,7 +1029,7 @@ public final class Parcel {
      * <li> Parcelable[]
      * <li> CharSequence (as supported by {@link TextUtils#writeToParcel}).
      * <li> List (as supported by {@link #writeList}).
-     * <li> {@link SparseArray} (as supported by {@link #writeSparseArray}).
+     * <li> {@link SparseArray} (as supported by {@link #writeSparseArray(SparseArray)}).
      * <li> {@link IBinder}
      * <li> Any object that implements Serializable (but see
      *      {@link #writeSerializable} for caveats).  Note that all of the
@@ -1032,6 +1038,13 @@ public final class Parcel {
      *      approach is much less efficient and should be avoided whenever
      *      possible.
      * </ul>
+     *
+     * <p class="caution">{@link Parcelable} objects are written with
+     * {@link Parcelable#writeToParcel} using contextual flags of 0.  When
+     * serializing objects containing {@link ParcelFileDescriptor}s,
+     * this may result in file descriptor leaks when they are returned from
+     * Binder calls (where {@link Parcelable#PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE}
+     * should be used).</p>
      */
     public final void writeValue(Object v) {
         if (v == null) {
@@ -1120,7 +1133,7 @@ public final class Parcel {
     /**
      * Flatten the name of the class of the Parcelable and its contents
      * into the parcel.
-     * 
+     *
      * @param p The Parcelable object to be written.
      * @param parcelableFlags Contextual flags as per
      * {@link Parcelable#writeToParcel(Parcel, int) Parcelable.writeToParcel()}.
diff --git a/core/java/android/os/ParcelFileDescriptor.java b/core/java/android/os/ParcelFileDescriptor.java
index 0a3b2cf77f83..e8fe302e28d3 100644
--- a/core/java/android/os/ParcelFileDescriptor.java
+++ b/core/java/android/os/ParcelFileDescriptor.java
@@ -250,6 +250,11 @@ public class ParcelFileDescriptor implements Parcelable {
         return Parcelable.CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@inheritDoc}
+     * If {@link Parcelable#PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE} is set in flags,
+     * the file descriptor will be closed after a copy is written to the Parcel.
+     */
     public void writeToParcel(Parcel out, int flags) {
         out.writeFileDescriptor(mFileDescriptor);
         if ((flags&PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE) != 0 && !mClosed) {
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