[Asterisk-Dev] masquerade and ZOMBIE problem and question

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Sergio Chersovani wrote:

> I did already read the ast_read function, but there's nothing that free 
> the channel. This is the code where the channel goes when it is ZOMBIE. 
> So the ast_read returns NULL and the channel is still there. It should 
> be safe to add ast_channelfree(chan); before exiting the function

No, you can't do that. The caller that called ast_read() is going to 
expect the channel to still exist when ast_read() returns.