Re: [Opensc-devel] C_Initialize

[Nikos M. <n.m...@gm...>]

On 02/18/2013 06:34 PM, Douglas E. Engert wrote:


>> Hello,
>>   I've noticed that C_Initialize takes excessive time on the opensc
>> pkcs11 module when a smart card is present. When no smart card is
>> present everything is ok. This causes quite a problem in gnutls which
>> has transparent smart card support and calls C_Initialize on startup. As
>> a result, every application that uses gnutls gets 4-6 second delay on
>> startup, irrespective on whether it will read that smart card or not.
>>
>> The attached patch seems to fix the initialization delays and the cards
>> I have seem to work fine.
> 
> With your mod in place, do smart cards still work with gnutls?
> 
> The card-detect will have to be called sometime...


Yes, but that should be when someone asks for a card. GnuTLS works fine
with this patch, because the cards are detected in C_GetTokenInfo()
which is the expected place.

regards,
Nikos