On 6/19/2015 5:26 PM, Luigi Semenzato wrote:
>
> No, you're on your own for that.  Trunks only does the
> marshalling/unmarshalling of TPM commands.
>
> At least on Linux, request/response atomicity is guaranteed by the
> driver, which makes /dev/tpm0 an exclusive-open device (only one
> process at a time can hold it open).

That is my understanding, which means that if /dev/tpm0 grants user 
level permissions, one application can open the TPM and block all other 
applications.

Even if applications cooperate, doing open/close pairs, they will 
interfere with each other.  Another purpose of tcsd is resource 
management, swapping items in and out of the TPMas needed for each 
application.

If that limitation is satisfactory, you don't need a privileged 
scheduler like tcsd.


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