[Muscle] Revised Diagram: pcsclite for Sun Ray w/Solaris Trusted Exteions

Michael Bender Michael.Bender at Sun.COM
Wed Oct 25 15:02:46 PDT 2006


Ludovic Rousseau wrote:

> I think it is better to use IFDHcontrol(). At least the communication
> is more explicit.

I agree.

> Note that you can use IFDHGetCapabilities(...,
> SCARD_ATTR_VENDOR_IFD_TYPE, ...) (or another similar tag) to check
> that the IFD will understand the IFDHcontrol() request.

What happens if you send an IFD an IFDHcontrol() request that it doesn't
understand? Is it supposed to fail gracefully, or do IFDs tend to
just start scribbling on random memory and then cause pcscd to dump
core ;-)?

mike

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