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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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