Comment 18 for bug 949912

(I'm replying in private to avoid further clutter in the buglog)

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 20:36:48 (CEST), Ludovic Rousseau wrote:

> the same pcscd can be used by two libpcsclite in 32 and 64 bits at the same time.
> So if your application is 32-bits only you can still use it on a 64-bits system with a 64-bits pcscd and 64-bits driver.
>
> See
> http://old.nabble.com/new-version-available:-pcsc-lite-1.4.99-td14711674.html

Ah, now it makes sense to me. So the pcsc-driver is never loaded into
the application's address space, but uses libpcsclite.so to talk to the
daemon, which acts as a proxy to the actual driver.

Thanks for pointing me to that post.

Cheers,
Reinhard
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