[Cryptech-Commits] [sw/pkcs11] branch master updated: Disable RPC daemon on all platforms for now.

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this push:
       new  ee6386f   Disable RPC daemon on all platforms for now.
ee6386f is described below

commit ee6386f2774d24c1dda6ba08383db55c70b05aaf
Author: Rob Austein <sra at hactrn.net>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 7 18:45:26 2016 -0400

    Disable RPC daemon on all platforms for now.
---
 Makefile | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 477653e..a275e3d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -80,14 +80,28 @@ UNAME := $(shell uname)
 CFLAGS	:= -g3 -fPIC -Wall -std=c99 -I${LIBHAL_SRC}
 LIBS	:= ${LIBHAL_BLD}/libhal.a ${LIBTFM_BLD}/libtfm.a
 
+# At present, the RPC daemon works on Linux but not on OSX, because the current daemon
+# protocol runs over SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets, which Apple doesn't support.  In the long run
+# this will be a non-issue, as we expect to reimplement the daemon protocol using a secure
+# channel which will almost certainly run over SOCK_STREAM instead of SOCK_SEQPACKET.
+#
+# But this is all moot, because the HSM code to support use of multiple FPGA cores in
+# parallel doesn't quite work properly yet, so the daemon doesn't really buy us anything
+# useful, and just adds a bit of extra complexity to setup on Linux.
+#
+# So, for the moment, the default LIBHAL_TARGET is "serial" on all platforms.  If for some
+# reason you want to try out the daemon on Linux, just change this to "daemon".
+
+LIBHAL_TARGET := serial
+
 ifeq "${UNAME}" "Darwin"
   SONAME  := libpkcs11.dylib
   SOFLAGS := -dynamiclib
-  LIBHAL_TARGET := serial
+# LIBHAL_TARGET := serial
 else
   SONAME  := libpkcs11.so
   SOFLAGS := -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,-z,noexecstack -Wl,-soname,${SONAME}.0
-  LIBHAL_TARGET := daemon
+# LIBHAL_TARGET := daemon
 endif
 
 ifeq "${ENABLE_FOOTNOTE_WARNINGS}" "no"

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