[Asterisk-Users] Dial timeout off by factor of two?

[Christopher L. Wade]

Rob Fugina wrote:
> Is it just me, or is the Dial timeout off by a factor of two?
> 
> This is not something that has appeared recently, but I finally
> decided to do some timings and see if it was just my perception or
> something...
> 
> With Dial(Blah/999,20), the phone will ring for 40 seconds.  With a
> timeout value of 10, it rang for 20 seconds...
> 
> I tried looking at the code for Dial, but didn't really comprehend
> much in a short period of time...  Does anybody see the same behavior?

I noticed it too, just haven't had the time to do the timings.  But in 
general, I noticed that *ALL* time(out) based functions were off by 
almost a factor of 2, but in my case they were typically the other way, 
meaning a specified 20 second timeout would trigger in 10 seconds, 60 in 
30, etc...  I'm sure it worked both ways though, just haven't been able 
to _time_ it yet.

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