[Asterisk-Dev] Anything wrong with sleep()ing in pbx_spool.c

[Jared Mauch]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:11:08PM -0500, James Sharp wrote:
> I added some hacks into pbx_spool.c so I could read a "delay" value from
> the call spool file.  I currently sleep() for that number of seconds
> before placing the outgoing call.  Is this going to affect anything other
> than it might bottleneck the outgoing spool if there's lots of queued up
> calls in it?

	You really want to use select instead.

	eg:

-- snip --
struct timeval tv;

tv.tv_sec = 2;
tv.tv_usec = 0;
select (1, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tv);
-- snip --

	This will do the same as sleep(2) but in such a way that
you could pass it a fd_set and have it "wake up" if there were activity
on one of the file descriptors (or sockets).

	- Jared

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