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<p>My company is offering a $2000 bounty to fix
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29774">https://issues.asterisk.org/jira/browse/ASTERISK-29774</a></p>
<p>This is a deadlock bug, and Kevin Harwell of Digium has been so
kind as to analyze the generated thread stack trace for us, and
identify the relevant threads and locks involved. So some of the
leg work has already been done (Thanks Kevin!). More information
is posted in Jira.<br>
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<p>We have two different thread stack traces now, both posted in
Jira. As I've mentioned, we're software developers here, but
we're not C programmers, and have little experience with Asterisk
locking. Subsequently, we can't fix this ourselves, but I can
provide assistance in verification of the bug being fixed, more
information, etc if anyone is willing to take this on.<br>
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<p>The $2000 offer largely reflects our need, and my estimation of
the rarity of the skills needed to address this rather than an
estimation of difficulty/time. I don't have much idea of the
difficulty of fixing this, but it does prevent us from moving
forward with Asterisk 16 and above, so fixing this is of high
value for us. <br>
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<p>We're able to reproduce this in our production environment fairly
readily. For what we're doing, this isn't a one in a million
chance like you sometimes see with deadlock/timing issues.<br>
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<p>Please contact me, Steve Sether, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ssether@usinternet.com">ssether@usinternet.com</a> for more
information.</p>
<p>Thank you.<br>
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