[Pcsclite-muscle] pcsc-lite & SCardLocateCardsByATR() function

[Lev Serebryakov]

Hello, Ludovic.
You wrote 14 октября 2011 г., 16:22:41:

>>  I'm porting some software, which uses WinSCard API, from Windows to
>>  Linux with pcsc-lite.
>>  Almost everything is Ok, but this software uses one call, which is
>>  absent in PCSC-Lite implementation: SCardLocateCardsByATR(), and
>>  structure SCARD_ATRMASK.
>>
>>   This API is used to find cardreader with card of specific vendor,
>>  with which this software works: it looks like, tat call returns all
>>  available cradreaders and cards, seen by them, and select cards,
>>  which have specific attributes (it checks many bytes in returned
>>  SCARD_ATRMASK to be specific one, looks like long "magic number").
>>
>>   How this API could be emulated in terms of pcsc-lite API? I could
>>  not find any similar APIs in pcsc-lite.
> If you want to know in which reader is inserted the card you are
> looking for you can use SCardListReaders() to list the readers and
> then SCardGetStatusChange() to get the ATR of the cards in the
> different readers.
   Yep, it seems, that SCardLocateCardsByATR() is wrapper (with loop
 and some checks) around these two functions. I think, I understand
 how to re-implement it by myself, thank you :)


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