[asterisk-dev] AGI and DeadAGI

[Peter Beckman]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Matthew Nicholson wrote:

> Matt Riddell wrote:
>>
>> Are we fine using AGI in this situation?  If so, I'll update the wiki to
>> be a bit more verbose.
>>
>
> A running AGI script should not be terminated when the line is hung up.
>  Asterisk should send the script SIGHUP when it closes the pipe to the
> script.  After the SIGHUP is sent, attempts to communicate with asterisk
> will result in SIGPIPE.
>
> Properly handling SIGHUP and SIGPIPE should prevent your scripts from
> automatically getting terminated.

  If I'm using AGI() and there is a hangup or a disconnect or congestion, do
  I get a final status of the call?  Or must I then use a dialplan that
  executes deadAGI() in order to get the channel variables such as
  DIALSTATUS in order to do custom CDRs and such?

Beckman
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