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This looks good.... but I don't get the importance of it. What can this do that termux openssh can't? Can I mount remote filesystems at the system level via ss

• dataflow 2y ago
  Yeah I had the same question. Why would I prefer this?
  • tetris11 2y ago
    I'm guessing it's for the use case where you "adb shell" into the phone, and want to ssh elsewhere (where dynamically-linked Termux binaries would not work).... Edit: .. though, one could always just start an ssh server in Termux in the OS for this. Maybe it's if you want to have ssh and rsync in the recovery or fastboot modes? Just in case you can't get (or don't want) to run the android system? Edit2: Ah. It's for when you want to use another app that can call system commands, without having to build ssh and rsync into the app, nor spawn an intermediate termux process from the app. It cuts out the middle-man. That is quite useful.
• noname120 2y ago
  Termux gets killed easily, even if you set it to unrestricted in your battery-saving settings. Here is one of the mechanisms that causes Termux (and other apps) to be killed: https://github.com/agnostic-apollo/Android-Docs/blob/master/en/docs/apps/processes/phantom-cached-and-empty-processes.md https://github.com/agnostic-apollo/Android-Docs/blob/master/... This module isn't affected by battery-saving mechanisms because it runs as a system process rather than an app process.
  • nolist_policy 2y ago
    You can disable the phantom process killer in developer settings in Android 14. Termux is rock solid on my Galaxy Fold 4 without any root or adb shenanigans.
    • adhamsalama 2y ago
      It still killed Linux desktop environments after a couple of minutes for me when I tried it.