Thanks Andreas, Thank you for your comment. I am for dropping old kernels hacks... And provide better solution for users. I now understand why mainloop wakes up... i will try to implement something.
Alon. On 12/21/08, Andreas Jellinghaus <a...@dungeon.inka.de> wrote: > in usb apps you can't poll a usb file handle without timeout - > older kernels have a bug, where device removed event is not > handled when it happends, but the application is only notified > after the timeout is over. if that is 0, the applications waits > forever. > > thats why we had a loop with 1 second or so in the openct pre-decessor. > hmm, not 100% sure how openct works in that regards. but we can change > the code, I think kernels with this bug are no longer relevant / we > can expect kernels to be fixed now. > > also we could optimize those loops - make sure if nothing happends, that > nothing is written to the syslog (unless someone has a very high debug > option). but I guess the code is already ok. > > when it comes to the individual drivers: sorry, I have no clue about them > other than the very simple etoken driver and friends. > > Regards, Andreas > > _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
