lol :) What are the chances of mailing the one person, who can fix the problem :)
We've had no luck with Sun going through regular channels but its nice to know something is happening. kewl :)
The sordid past of Solaris smartcard framework. hmm not refering to OCFserv issues are you ;)
Anyway, thanks for the reply
Cheers
From: Michael Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], MUSCLE <[email protected]> To: MUSCLE <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Muscle] Solaris Sun Ray Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:40:12 -0800
sim rid wrote:> [...]I been doing a fair bit of playing around with Muscle on Sunrays. :)
You should be aware that there is a bug in Suns libpcsc-srcom.so. This is the library that exports the pcsc interface so you can access the Sunray terminal reader. The bug works like this:
Basically Application 2 cannot access the card while Application 1 process is still running, even though App1 has called SCardDisconnect. Looks like they rely on process exit to clean up resources.
I'm truly sorry for that - that's my fault and it's a known limitation of what we call the "PC/SC bypass" (i.e. the lib that you get with the SUNWsrcbp package).
One day when we're all sitting around at some conference, or rather, after the conference having a beer or two, I'll tell the sordid story of the history of smartcard framework APIs in Solaris - it's not a pretty one :-).
This turns out to be a big problem with pam.
And most everything else that just works correctly with a native pcscd implementation.
I'm working on a short-term fix to the bypass (i.e. the SUNWsrcbp libpcsclite.so/libpcsc-srcom.so) that will allow concurrent access to the Sun Ray internal reader with proper pcscd semantics. That will get us all over this hump for a while while we get a native pcscd implementation working on Solaris and Linux that can support Sun Ray (both Sun Ray internal readers as well as USB and serial readers connected to a Sun Ray's ports).
mike
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