I just spent some time on this issue albeit under the MS version of
PC/SC, and you do have to spawn a thread watch SCardGetStatusChange()
for the proper event type.
Cam
David Timothy Corcoran wrote:
>
> You are right. PC/SC doesn't formally specify how one would go about
> sending events on card insertion/removal. It does provide an API though
> for you to test this. I suppose an application could thread this for real
> time notification but I would like to extend the specification to support
> events for those readers that support interrupts on card insertion/removal
> and plan to do so. Unfortunately, none of the readers that I'm currently
> working with support interrupts so they would have to have a threaded
> driver that throws an event on insertion/removal.
>
> Any suggestions on how one would go about this are appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
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