pcsc-spy(1)

1PCSC-SPY(1)                       PC/SC lite                       PCSC-SPY(1)
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NAME

6       pcsc-spy - A PC/SC spy command
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SYNOPSIS

9       pcsc-spy [-n|--nocolor] [-d|--diffable] [-h|--help] [fifo_filename]
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DESCRIPTION

12       pcsc-spy displays PC/SC calls of an application. It must be used with
13       the libpcscspy.so library.
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15       To be able to spy the PC/SC layer, the application flow must be
16       modified so that all PC/SC calls are redirected. Two options are
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19       - the application is linked with libpcsclite.so.1
20       - the application loads the libpcsclite.so.1 library using dlopen(3)
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OPTIONS

23       -d, --diffable
24           Demove the variable parts (like handler values) from the output so
25           that two execution can be more easily compared.
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27       -h, --help
28           Display a short help text.
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30       -n, --nocolor
31           Disable the output colorization (if you want redirect the output in
32           a file for example).
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35           Print the version of the pcsc-spy program plus a copyright, a list
36           of authors.
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EXAMPLES

39   Applications linked with libpcsclite.so.1
40       We will use the standard LD_PRELOAD loader option to load our spying
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44        LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libpcscspy.so pcsc_scan
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46   Application loading libpcsclite.so.1
47       This is the case for the PC/SC wrappers like pyscard (for Python) and
48       pcsc-perl (for Perl). The LD_PRELOAD mechanism can't be used. Instead
49       we replace the libpcsclite.so.1 library by the spying one.
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51       You may use install_spy.sh and uninstall_spy.sh to install and
52       uninstall the spying library.
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54       Using the spying library without pcsc-spy is not a problem but has side
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57       - a line "libpcsclite_nospy.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No
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60       - some CPU time will be lost because of the PC/SC calls redirection
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62   Starting the spy tool
63        pcsc-spy
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65       If a command argument is passed we use it instead of the default
66       ~/pcsc-spy FIFO file. It is then possible to record an execution log
67       and use pcsc-spy multiple times on the same log.
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69       To create the log file just do:
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71        mkfifo ~/pcsc-spy
72        cat ~/pcsc-spy > logfile
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74       and run your PC/SC application.
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76   Mac OS X
77       The installation is not automatic. In the pcsc-lite/src/spy directory
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79        make framework
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81       Then copy the PCSC.framework directory in /tmp
82        cp -a PCSC.framework /tmp
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84       Copy the official PCSC.framework (binary only) in /tmp
85        cp /System/Library/Frameworks/PCSC.framework/PCSC /tmp
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87       Run the application to debug as:
88        DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH=/tmp pcsctest
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FILES

91       ~/pcsc-spy FIFO file is used by libpcsclite.so.1 to send the raw log
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AUTHOR

98       This manual page was written by Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@free.fr>
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102pcsc-lite 1.8.8                   2012-08-25                       PCSC-SPY(1)