Hi,
The IEEE is correct. Currently PC/SC does not provide card abstraction
that allows the use of Multi-application cards. It provides a generic
interface that allows the manufacturer to implement their own proprietary
class to do multi-applications on cards. Supposedly PC/SC 2.0 will fix
this.
PC/SC does allow multiple applications to access the same device
simultaneously though. The above paragraph discusses multi-application
cards and this one discusses multiple applications running on the machine
accessing the card simultaneously. The PC/SC full version using CORBA
allowed multiple applications to access the card/reader simultaneously.
PC/SC lite does not currently but will soon ( within 1 month using RPC to
lighten it up a bit - and if I get time I might also release one that uses
shared memory to lighten it up even more ) I think the confusion is
between multiple applications on the machine which does work and multiple
applications on the card which doesn't work.
Hope this clears it up.
Best Regards,
Dave
David Corcoran
1008 Cherry Lane
West Lafayette, IN 47906
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