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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual Index

SILC Toolkit Reference Manual SILC Crypto Library     Introduction to SILC RNG     SILC RNG Interface     SILC Cipher API     SILC PKCS API     SILC Public Key API     SILC PKCS #1 API     SILC Hash Interface     SILC HMAC Interface SILC Core Library     SILC Authentication Interface     SILC Message Interface     SILC Channel Interface     SILC Command Interface     SILC Notify Interface     SILC Status Types     SILC Modes     SILC ID Interface     SILC Argument Interface     SILC Attributes Interface     Packet Engine Interface     SILC Public Key Payload Interface SILC Key Exchange Library     SILC SKE Interface     SILC Connection Authentication Interface SILC VCard Library     SILC VCard Interface SILC Math Library     SILC MP Interface     SILC Math Interface SILC Client Library     Using SILC Client Library Tutorial     Arguments for command_reply Client Operation     SilcStatus Error Arguments in command_reply Client Operation     Arguments for notify Client Operation     Unicode and UTF-8 Strings in Client Library     Client Library Interface Reference     Client Entry Interface Reference SILC ASN.1 Library     SILC ASN.1 Interface     SILC BER interface SILC HTTP Library     SILC HTTP Server Interface     SILC HTTP PHP Translator SILC Utility Library     Basic Types and Definitions     Data Buffer Interface     Data Buffer Format Interface     Hash Table Interface     Memory Allocation Interface     Data Stack (memory pool) Interface     Finite State Machine Interface     Thread Interface     Mutual Exclusion Lock Interface     Condition Variable Interface     Atomic Operations Interface     Network (TCP and UDP) Interface     Scheduler Interface     Asynchronous Operation Interface     Abstract Stream Interface     Socket Stream Interface     File Descriptor Stream Interface     File Utility Functions     String Utility Interface     Snprintf Interface     UTF-8 String Interface     Stringprep Interface     Utility Functions     List Interface     Dynamic List Interface     MIME Interface     Time Utility Functions     Logging Interface     Config File Interface SILC Key Repository Library     SILC SKR Interface SILC Application Utility Library     SILC Application Utilities     SILC ID Cache Interface SILC SFTP Library     SILC SFTP Interface     SFTP Filesystems Interface Resource Links SILC Project Website SILC Protocol Documentation SILC White Paper SILC FAQs

Platform Implementations   This document describes the implementation issues with different platforms that the SILC Toolkit support. Some of the supported platforms does not support all the features delivered with the Toolkit or they may behave differently from other platforms.   Unix & Linux Implementation Windows Implementation Mac OS X Implementation Symbian OS Implementation     Supported Platforms   SILC Toolkit supports by default all Unix and Linux platforms, Windows platforms from Windows 2000 and newer, Mac OS X and Symbian OS.     Unix Implementation   All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on all Unix and Linux platforms. There are no special Unix platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.     Windows Implementation   By default all features and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported on Windows. However, there are some certain issues with the Windows version of the SILC Toolkit.   Some of the network routines do not support IPv6.     Mac OS X Implementation   All features and components delivered with the SILC Toolkit work on Mac OS X platform. There are no special Mac OS X platform related implementation issues with current version of SILC Toolkit.     Symbian OS Implementation   Symbian OS support in SILC Toolkit is still experimental. By default all features and components delivered with SILC Toolkit are supported and should work on Symbian. However, there are some issues with the Symbian version of the SILC Toolkit of what Symbian developers need to be aware.   The function silc_schedule on Symbian will allocate new Active Scheduler Waiter and will block the calling thread. The caller should allocate Active Scheduler before calling silc_schedule. When adding timeout tasks to SILC Scheduler the SILC Scheduler is woken up after the timeout task has been added. This allows adding of the timeout tasks from Symbian active objects outside the SILC Scheduler loop. On other platforms this wakeup operation is not performed. Adding fd task to SILC Scheduler will not schedule the fd for any operation. Instead, programmer should use SILC Socket Stream API and SILC Fd Stream API on Symbian when dealing with file descriptors and sockets. These APIs provide asynchronous notification when data is available and can be written. The function silc_thread_create on Symbian will install Active Scheduler and allocate Cleanup Stack for the new thread. The created thread always shares heap with the parent thread.

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