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This function terminates all outstanding actions within a specific resource manager context.

The only requests that you can cancel are those that require waiting for external action by the smart card or user. Any such outstanding action requests will terminate with a status indication that the action was canceled. This is especially useful to force outstanding SCardGetStatusChangecalls to terminate.

Syntax 

LONG SCardCancel(
  SCARDCONTEXT 
hContext 
);

Parameters

hContext

[in] Handle that identifies the resource manager context. The resource manager context is set by a previous call to SCardEstablishContext.

Return Value

The following table shows the possible return values.

Value Description

SCARD_S_SUCCESS

Succeeds

An error value (see Smart Card Error Valuesfor a list of all error values).

Fails

Remarks

SCardCancelis a smart card tracking function.

Requirements

Header winscard.h
Library winscard.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 3.0 and later
Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later

See Also