[asterisk-dev] channel name uniqueness

[Russell Bryant]

On May 18, 2009, at 5:38 PM, paul at glccom.com wrote:

>
> The names of the active sip channels are guaranteed to be unique  
> only if
> asterisk data pointers are 32 bits, that is, asterisk is compiled on a
> 32 bit system. If, on the other hand, asterisk is compiled on a 64 bit
> system, pointers are 64 bits so that a 32 bit data pointer is  
> ambiguous
> because heap is allocated both above and below 4 gigabytes.


Yes, you are correct.  I'm sorry for missing what you were saying the  
first time.  So, while it seems like running into this problem would  
be very unlikely, it is a bug that we need to address.

It would be excellent if you could post this to issues.asterisk.org.

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Russell Bryant
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