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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __CUTILS_PROPERTIES_H
+#define __CUTILS_PROPERTIES_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/* System properties are *small* name value pairs managed by the
+** property service. If your data doesn't fit in the provided
+** space it is not appropriate for a system property.
+**
+** WARNING: system/bionic/include/sys/system_properties.h also defines
+** these, but with different names. (TODO: fix that)
+*/
+#define PROPERTY_KEY_MAX 32
+#define PROPERTY_VALUE_MAX 92
+
+/* property_get: returns the length of the value which will never be
+** greater than PROPERTY_VALUE_MAX - 1 and will always be zero terminated.
+** (the length does not include the terminating zero).
+**
+** If the property read fails or returns an empty value, the default
+** value is used (if nonnull).
+*/
+int property_get(const char *key, char *value, const char *default_value);
+
+/* property_set: returns 0 on success, < 0 on failure
+*/
+int property_set(const char *key, const char *value);
+
+int property_list(void (*propfn)(const char *key, const char *value, void *cookie), void *cookie);
+
+
+#ifdef HAVE_SYSTEM_PROPERTY_SERVER
+/*
+ * We have an external property server instead of built-in libc support.
+ * Used by the simulator.
+ */
+#define SYSTEM_PROPERTY_PIPE_NAME "/tmp/android-sysprop"
+
+enum {
+ kSystemPropertyUnknown = 0,
+ kSystemPropertyGet,
+ kSystemPropertySet,
+ kSystemPropertyList
+};
+#endif /*HAVE_SYSTEM_PROPERTY_SERVER*/
+
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif