[asterisk-dev] when to lock a channel

[Russell Bryant]

lumen wrote:
> There is a way or notation to know if a function in channel.h, features.h or 
> whatever needs a channel lock previous to be called?

The doxygen documentation _should_ indicate that.  However, in most cases it
does not.  I have added it in some places, but there is more to do.  Patches to
improve the documentation are certainly welcome!

> There is a problem if many threads call ast_write(chan,frame) in the same 
> channel ?

No, ast_write() locks the channel.  However, I do wonder why you would ever
write code such that multiple threads are writing to the same channel ...

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Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.