Thanks, I had missed that! Perhaps it would be helpful for bankd to explicitly log that no reader was found according to the regex - in my case the problem wasn't obvious, and the client would keep retrying in a loop.
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023, 13:29 Harald Welte <lafo...@osmocom.org> wrote: > Dear Adrian, > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:44:50PM +0300, Adrian Popa wrote: > > Now - if it's using a regex to search for the reader string, the fact > > that my reader has [] and () in it will break the regex search, right? > > yes. > > > I've changed /etc/osmocom/bankd_pcsc_slots.csv, and set just: > > "1","1","SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 3310" > > as the reader name/mapping, leaving out the special characters, and it > > started ok. > > > > I suggest making a note of this in the documentation, that special > > characters in the reader name are checked via regular expressions. > > This is already documented rather explicitly, please see > > https://gitea.osmocom.org/sim-card/osmo-remsim/src/commit/958ae50de114def58e3213a06d469de0bb19fa7d/doc/manuals/chapters/remsim-bankd.adoc#L150 > > | NOTE:: If the reader name contains any special characters, they might > need to be escaped according > | to the extended POSIX regular expression syntax. See `man 7 regex` for a > reference. > > The example config file snippet just below it also contains \[ style > escaping > > -- > - Harald Welte <lafo...@osmocom.org> > https://laforge.gnumonks.org/ > > ============================================================================ > "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." > (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. > A6) >
