On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 22:43, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rouss...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2010/9/4 Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se>: >> Martin Paljak wrote: >>> Nothing bad will happen if pcscd is not gracefully shut down when >>> the computer is rebooting, >> >> Not the problem. But if pcscd crashes it should be restarted, as long >> as the card is still inserted. So pcscd needs to be supervised. Many >> distributions don't support it, but they will, and there's not much >> point in going against the flow; better just start the service the >> $distribution way. > > If pcscd crashes it will be restarted by the next > SCardEstablishContext() call using the same auto start mechanism. > But pcscd never crashes :-)
By the way, I think this claim is correct, I don't remember seeing a crashing released version of pcsc-lite on Linux under normal use (no comments about OS X though). But a crashing pcscd would bring down with it all handles, so I don't see a need why it needs to be restarted based on the reader state. Only if the application asks for a restart (and knows how to recover from the situation). If pcscd has built-in restart and exit handling (and policy), the whole distro voodoo can be forgotten, no? _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
