[asterisk-dev] temporary file names for monitor files

[Dmitry Andrianov]

As I understand Asterisk writes data to a file as soon as it receives it on the channel. And this means the file will start getting data almost immediately after creation, not when the call is complete.

Writing to a .tmp file which is later renamed to a file without .tmp suffix is classic way of solving the problem. A LOT of applications do that. Checking modification time is more like a workaround to me.


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-dev-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Sherwood McGowan
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 2:49 PM
To: Asterisk Developers Mailing List
Subject: Re: [asterisk-dev] temporary file names for monitor files

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 05:24:48PM -0500, John Lange wrote:
>
>> Does it make sense to write a patch for Asterisk so that while a
>> recording is in progress, the file has a '.part' extension on the file
>> name to differentiate it from files in which recording has finished.
>>
>> The idea here is that if you want to move your recordings off to another
>> place once you have finished you can write a simple "cron" to do it
>> without having to worry if the recording has completed or not.
>>
>> I realize this could be done through dialplan logic but seems to me that
>> this is a more logical way to tackle this problem.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> Renaming at the end of a call?
>
> All to similar to the task of the mixmonitor script. Couldn't this be
> implemented that way?
>
>
As I read it (pardon me if I'm misunderstanding your question), he wants
the .tmp or .part to be removed from the filename after the file is
finished being written to, thereby allowing a simpler method of knowing
when the file is completed being written to.

I haven't tested in depth, but I believe that the file is created but
does not have data in it until after the call is completed, but still we
don't want to modify/copy/move the file until after it's finished being
written to. Since you're not sure when the file is done being modified
by Asterisk, the only thing you can do is check for a modification time
that is more than x seconds/minutes in the past and then do what you
wish to do to the file.

However, your reminder of the mixmonitor script is good, I think I'll
take a peek into the code and try to get an idea of two.

Sherwood McGowan

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