[asterisk-commits] mmichelson: trunk r96935 - /trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c

[SVN commits to the Asterisk project]

Author: mmichelson
Date: Mon Jan  7 15:10:59 2008
New Revision: 96935

URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&rev=96935
Log:
Document some weird casting magic that's necessary to interface
with the c-client


Modified:
    trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c

Modified: trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c
URL: http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c?view=diff&rev=96935&r1=96934&r2=96935
==============================================================================
--- trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c (original)
+++ trunk/apps/app_voicemail.c Mon Jan  7 15:10:59 2008
@@ -8213,7 +8213,10 @@
 			ast_copy_string(greetingfolder, imapfolder, sizeof(greetingfolder));
 		}
 
-		/* Handle the timeouts */
+		/* There is some very unorthodox casting done here. This is due
+		 * to the way c-client handles the argument passed in. It expects a 
+		 * void pointer and casts the pointer directly to a long without
+		 * first dereferencing it. */
 		if ((val = ast_variable_retrieve(cfg, "general", "imapreadtimeout"))) {
 			mail_parameters(NIL, SET_READTIMEOUT, (void *) (atol(val)));
 		} else {