[Pcsclite-muscle] Difference with Windows (maybe a bug)

[Ludovic Rousseau]

2016-09-23 11:03 GMT+02:00 Abraham Macias Paredes <amacias at solutia-it.es>:

> Hi PCSC lite Project people,
>
> I’m developing a software that must work in Windows and Linux. And I found
> a difference between Windows PCSC API and “pcsc-lite” that may be a bug.
>
>
>
> The software has several threads. In a thread a “SCardGetStatusChange” is
> performed and it locks until there is a change in the status.
>
> When another thread performs a “SCardConnect”, in Windows the
> “SCardGetStatusChange” call returns with the “SCARD_STATE_INUSE”  flag
> activated. But in Linux the thread continues locked at
> “SCardGetStatusChange”.
>

This is a known difference between pcsc-lite and PC/SC on Windows.

It is already documented at
http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/api/group__API.html#details point 6.

It is not a bug. It is a feature. :-)

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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