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We can double the speed of "adb sync" (on N9) if we increase SYNC_DATA_MAX from 64KiB to 256KiB. This change doesn't do that, because I still haven't managed to plumb through the information about whether we're a new adb/adbd to file_sync_client.cpp and file_sync_service.cpp. But this is already a big change with a lot of cleanup, so let's do the cleanup and worry about the intended change another day... This change does improve performance somewhat by halving the number of lstat(2) calls made on the client side, and ensuring that most packets are sent with a single write. This has the pleasing result of making the null sync on an AOSP N9 go from just over 300ms to around 100ms, which means it now seems instantaneous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_chronometry). Change-Id: If9f6d4c1f93ec752b95f71211bbbb1c513045166
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This file tries to document all requests a client can make
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to the ADB server of an adbd daemon. See the OVERVIEW.TXT document
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to understand what's going on here.
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HOST SERVICES:
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host:version
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Ask the ADB server for its internal version number.
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As a special exception, the server will respond with a 4-byte
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hex string corresponding to its internal version number, without
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any OKAY or FAIL.
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host:kill
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Ask the ADB server to quit immediately. This is used when the
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ADB client detects that an obsolete server is running after an
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upgrade.
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host:devices
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host:devices-l
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Ask to return the list of available Android devices and their
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state. devices-l includes the device paths in the state.
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After the OKAY, this is followed by a 4-byte hex len,
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and a string that will be dumped as-is by the client, then
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the connection is closed
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host:track-devices
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This is a variant of host:devices which doesn't close the
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connection. Instead, a new device list description is sent
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each time a device is added/removed or the state of a given
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device changes (hex4 + content). This allows tools like DDMS
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to track the state of connected devices in real-time without
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polling the server repeatedly.
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host:emulator:<port>
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This is a special query that is sent to the ADB server when a
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new emulator starts up. <port> is a decimal number corresponding
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to the emulator's ADB control port, i.e. the TCP port that the
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emulator will forward automatically to the adbd daemon running
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in the emulator system.
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This mechanism allows the ADB server to know when new emulator
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instances start.
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host:transport:<serial-number>
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Ask to switch the connection to the device/emulator identified by
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<serial-number>. After the OKAY response, every client request will
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be sent directly to the adbd daemon running on the device.
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(Used to implement the -s option)
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host:transport-usb
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Ask to switch the connection to one device connected through USB
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to the host machine. This will fail if there are more than one such
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devices. (Used to implement the -d convenience option)
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host:transport-local
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Ask to switch the connection to one emulator connected through TCP.
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This will fail if there is more than one such emulator instance
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running. (Used to implement the -e convenience option)
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host:transport-any
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Another host:transport variant. Ask to switch the connection to
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either the device or emulator connect to/running on the host.
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Will fail if there is more than one such device/emulator available.
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(Used when neither -s, -d or -e are provided)
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host-serial:<serial-number>:<request>
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This is a special form of query, where the 'host-serial:<serial-number>:'
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prefix can be used to indicate that the client is asking the ADB server
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for information related to a specific device. <request> can be in one
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of the format described below.
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host-usb:<request>
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A variant of host-serial used to target the single USB device connected
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to the host. This will fail if there is none or more than one.
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host-local:<request>
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A variant of host-serial used to target the single emulator instance
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running on the host. This will fail if there is none or more than one.
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host:<request>
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When asking for information related to a device, 'host:' can also be
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interpreted as 'any single device or emulator connected to/running on
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the host'.
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<host-prefix>:get-product
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XXX
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<host-prefix>:get-serialno
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Returns the serial number of the corresponding device/emulator.
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Note that emulator serial numbers are of the form "emulator-5554"
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<host-prefix>:get-devpath
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Returns the device path of the corresponding device/emulator.
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<host-prefix>:get-state
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Returns the state of a given device as a string.
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<host-prefix>:forward:<local>;<remote>
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Asks the ADB server to forward local connections from <local>
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to the <remote> address on a given device.
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There, <host-prefix> can be one of the
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host-serial/host-usb/host-local/host prefixes as described previously
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and indicates which device/emulator to target.
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the format of <local> is one of:
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tcp:<port> -> TCP connection on localhost:<port>
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local:<path> -> Unix local domain socket on <path>
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the format of <remote> is one of:
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tcp:<port> -> TCP localhost:<port> on device
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local:<path> -> Unix local domain socket on device
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jdwp:<pid> -> JDWP thread on VM process <pid>
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or even any one of the local services described below.
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<host-prefix>:forward:norebind:<local>;<remote>
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Same as <host-prefix>:forward:<local>;<remote> except that it will
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fail it there is already a forward connection from <local>.
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Used to implement 'adb forward --no-rebind <local> <remote>'
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<host-prefix>:killforward:<local>
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Remove any existing forward local connection from <local>.
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This is used to implement 'adb forward --remove <local>'
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<host-prefix>:killforward-all
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Remove all forward network connections.
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This is used to implement 'adb forward --remove-all'.
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<host-prefix>:list-forward
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List all existing forward connections from this server.
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This returns something that looks like the following:
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<hex4>: The length of the payload, as 4 hexadecimal chars.
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<payload>: A series of lines of the following format:
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<serial> " " <local> " " <remote> "\n"
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Where <serial> is a device serial number.
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<local> is the host-specific endpoint (e.g. tcp:9000).
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<remote> is the device-specific endpoint.
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Used to implement 'adb forward --list'.
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LOCAL SERVICES:
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All the queries below assumed that you already switched the transport
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to a real device, or that you have used a query prefix as described
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above.
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shell:command arg1 arg2 ...
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Run 'command arg1 arg2 ...' in a shell on the device, and return
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its output and error streams. Note that arguments must be separated
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by spaces. If an argument contains a space, it must be quoted with
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double-quotes. Arguments cannot contain double quotes or things
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will go very wrong.
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Note that this is the non-interactive version of "adb shell"
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shell:
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Start an interactive shell session on the device. Redirect
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stdin/stdout/stderr as appropriate. Note that the ADB server uses
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this to implement "adb shell", but will also cook the input before
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sending it to the device (see interactive_shell() in commandline.c)
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remount:
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Ask adbd to remount the device's filesystem in read-write mode,
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instead of read-only. This is usually necessary before performing
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an "adb sync" or "adb push" request.
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This request may not succeed on certain builds which do not allow
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that.
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dev:<path>
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Opens a device file and connects the client directly to it for
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read/write purposes. Useful for debugging, but may require special
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privileges and thus may not run on all devices. <path> is a full
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path from the root of the filesystem.
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tcp:<port>
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Tries to connect to tcp port <port> on localhost.
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tcp:<port>:<server-name>
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Tries to connect to tcp port <port> on machine <server-name> from
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the device. This can be useful to debug some networking/proxy
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issues that can only be revealed on the device itself.
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local:<path>
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Tries to connect to a Unix domain socket <path> on the device
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localreserved:<path>
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localabstract:<path>
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localfilesystem:<path>
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Variants of local:<path> that are used to access other Android
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socket namespaces.
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framebuffer:
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This service is used to send snapshots of the framebuffer to a client.
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It requires sufficient privileges but works as follow:
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After the OKAY, the service sends 16-byte binary structure
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containing the following fields (little-endian format):
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depth: uint32_t: framebuffer depth
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size: uint32_t: framebuffer size in bytes
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width: uint32_t: framebuffer width in pixels
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height: uint32_t: framebuffer height in pixels
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With the current implementation, depth is always 16, and
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size is always width*height*2
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Then, each time the client wants a snapshot, it should send
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one byte through the channel, which will trigger the service
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to send it 'size' bytes of framebuffer data.
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If the adbd daemon doesn't have sufficient privileges to open
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the framebuffer device, the connection is simply closed immediately.
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jdwp:<pid>
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Connects to the JDWP thread running in the VM of process <pid>.
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track-jdwp
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This is used to send the list of JDWP pids periodically to the client.
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The format of the returned data is the following:
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<hex4>: the length of all content as a 4-char hexadecimal string
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<content>: a series of ASCII lines of the following format:
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<pid> "\n"
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This service is used by DDMS to know which debuggable processes are running
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on the device/emulator.
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Note that there is no single-shot service to retrieve the list only once.
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sync:
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This starts the file synchronization service, used to implement "adb push"
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and "adb pull". Since this service is pretty complex, it will be detailed
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in a companion document named SYNC.TXT
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reverse:<forward-command>
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This implements the 'adb reverse' feature, i.e. the ability to reverse
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socket connections from a device to the host. <forward-command> is one
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of the forwarding commands that are described above, as in:
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list-forward
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forward:<local>;<remote>
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forward:norebind:<local>;<remote>
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killforward-all
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killforward:<local>
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Note that in this case, <local> corresponds to the socket on the device
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and <remote> corresponds to the socket on the host.
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The output of reverse:list-forward is the same as host:list-forward
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except that <serial> will be just 'host'.
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