From: Corcoran David (corcoranidentityalliance.com)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 08:11:26 CDT

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Hi,

Hopefully I can shed a little on this.

I think this statement is probably a bit misleading:

> In Tiger, pcscd is auto-launched on demand. Securityd looks for
insertion
> of smartcard devices and runs pcscd as needed. If pcscd doesn't
report
> recognizing a smartcard reader within 2 minutes, it gets killed
again.
> (That also applies when you pull out your last reader; two minutes
later
> pcscd will go poof.)

Actually, Securityd is responsible for identifying cards and
launching pcscd. When it finds a reader that it recognizes, it auto-
launches pcscd and uses it
until it is no longer needed + 2 minutes. This is mainly to reduce
the number of non-active daemons present on the system. When it
identifies a card, it spawns what is called a tokend which is a card
abstractor, which uses pcscd to talk to the reader. If tokend does
not recognize the card, then securityd shuts down pcscd. I somewhat
remember that Apple was planning on having a way to keep pcscd open
should an application need it .......

Thanks,
Dave

On Sep 1, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:

> On 01/09/05, Simon Richter <Simon.Richterin.tum.de> wrote:
>
>> I have similar symptoms on my Pegasos, which is also powerpc based.
>>
>
> And you reported the bug to Debian [1].
> The bug may be in libusb but I will need your help to track it.
>
> Can both of you try to use the subversion [2] version of pcsc-lite and
> ccid and try to reproduce the crash?
>
> Thanks,
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/310227
> [2] http://svn.debian.org/, project pcsclite
>
> --
> Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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