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SILC Toolkit Reference Manual SILC VCard Library SILC VCard Interface 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 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 Math Library SILC MP Interface SILC Math Interface SILC Application Utility Library SILC Application Utilities SILC ID Cache Interface SILC Key Repository Library SILC SKR Interface SILC ASN.1 Library SILC ASN.1 Interface SILC BER interface SILC Key Exchange Library SILC SKE Interface SILC Connection Authentication Interface SILC SFTP Library SILC SFTP Interface SFTP Filesystems 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 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 HTTP Library SILC HTTP Server Interface SILC HTTP PHP Translator 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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