[asterisk-dev] Copying channel variables to another channel

[Paul Belanger]

Thanks to Kevin for pointing me towards
ast_channel_inherit_variables().  Infact, looking more into the
function, I now believe the original issue is not a bug.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Paul Belanger
<paul.belanger at polybeacon.com> wrote:
> asterisk-dev,
>
> I'm attempting to write, what I believe to be, a trivial patch to fix
> an existing issue (https://issues.asterisk.org/view.php?id=17180).  I
> figure it might be an _easy_ way to learn more about chan_sip.  I
> believe I know the solution to the problem, but was looking to get
> more information about 'copying' a channel variable from one channel
> to another.
>
> Back in May '06
> (http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2006-May/020713.html)
> Olle talks about copying channel variables.
>
> ---
> When one channel creates another channel, we copy some data to the new channel.
> ---
>
> I've been looking in the source, but haven't found an existing
> function to do this. I'm curious if we copy _certain_ channel
> variables into a new channel or are we to copy all existing variables?
>
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> Paul Belanger
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