Re: [Opensc-devel] blocking C_WaitForSlotEvent()

[Martin P. <ma...@ma...>]

I think it is time to assume it is working correctly on all recent versions
and increase the minimal required version of pcsc-lite, if that exists.

On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 at 15:40 Jakub Jelen <jj...@re...> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The source of the pkcs11-global.c [1] says that the blocking call does
> not work in some pcsc-lite versions. From the git/svn history [2], the
> versions are before pcsc-lite 1.5.3, the changelog points more to the
> version 1.5.4 fixing various use cases of the SCardGetStatusChange() calls.
>
> I tested with current pcsc-lite and with the condition removed and basic
> use case with waiting for slot status change from PKCS#11 in single
> thread worked flawlessly.
>
> Is there something more needed than adding a check for pcsc-lite 1.6 in
> the configure scripts to allow this functionality again? Are there any
> test cases to make sure it works fine with Firefox for example?
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/blob/master/src/pkcs11/pkcs11-global.c#L645
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/commit/8af1b60afdad95f569279528ff96dda9d1d4e9f8
> [3]
>
> https://alioth.debian.org/plugins/scmgit/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcsclite/PCSC.git;a=blob;f=ChangeLog;hb=HEAD#l535
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
> Jakub Jelen
> Software Engineer
> Security Technologies
> Red Hat
>
>
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