Has anyone done some work into this? These are my thoughts...
1. /dev/smartcard should be a valid kernel device. Not all
readers are serial based, and so a symlink to /dev/cua* may not
work in all cases. Security for such devices that are symlinked
may be an issue...
2. At the same time, a serial smartcard reader with kernel
support should *lock* that serial port from being able to be
accessed by anything else. The concept is simple, but after
poking around in the kernel drivers/char/* sources I don't
know that an implementation will be easy at all. I'm hoping
someone reading this will have a solution!
Thanks,
Mark
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