Question

A lot of functions in the Android source code have peculiar names ending with LI, LPw, LPr. Does anyone know what these acronyms mean, as it would be more helpful to understand the function name and its purpose.

Example:

PackageManagerService.installPackageLI()
PackageManagerService.updatePermissionsLPw()
Settings.peekPackageLPr()

Thanks.

Answer 1

Look at line 234 :

234     // Lock for state used when installing and doing other long running
235     // operations.  Methods that must be called with this lock held have
236     // the prefix "LI".
237     final Object mInstallLock = new Object();