[Asterisk-Dev] where is the thread which monitors all the idle channels?

[Russell Bryant]

On Oct 28, 2005, at 10:42 AM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> If that exists, it would be channel-driver specific (i.e. in each  
> channel driver that needs a background thread, it would start one).
>
> However, I'm not aware of any existing channel driver that has a  
> thread that 'monitors all the idle channels', so that documentation  
> is a bit perplexing.

Yeah, I would say that the wording there is a bit confusing.

Some examples of what this is attempting to convey would be the  
monitor threads in chan_sip and chan_iax2.  They are "do_monitor" in  
chan_sip and "network_thread" in chan_iax2.

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Russell Bryant