What is the exporting folder "sootOutput" ?

[yieux]

I use ic3-0.2.0-bin and dare to analyze some Android apk, and obtain a great deal of information about inter-component communication in exporting file "(specified path -out)/(packagename)_.txt".

When I get a new folder "sootOutput" in ./ when I run the ic3 cmd as follow:

java -jar ../ic3-0.2.0/ic3-0.2.0-full.jar -apkormanifest ./1.apk -input ./out/retargeted/1 -cp ../ic3-0.2.0/android.jar -out ./out2 -protobuf ./out2

The "sootOutput" always be empty iin my test, so I can't makesure the use of this folder. Do it will have some output files in certain special cases?

Thanks.

[docteau]

No, this is something that is created by Soot by default, this is not useful for inter-component communication.