[Asterisk-Users] Background asynchronous AGI

[Matt]

Can't you do all of this with the (Absolute) time setting?   So if the
person has 4,000 minutes left.. set the call length for 4,000 minutes
as the absolute max.   Alternately... you could probably use screen?  
Launch an AGI from the main AGI using screen so it goes into the
background...

You could also try writing a daemon in perl I suppose.

On 4/25/06, random cluster <ramcluster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tony
>
>        I have the same problem you have, i think what would you like
> to do (as me), is to update in a realtime basis credit for prepaid
> customer, look what I posted today,
>  its from ramcluster and the threat is billing realtime, this is what
> i discover right now.
>
>   Hope it help you
>
>
> 2006/4/25, Tony Mountifield <tony at softins.clara.co.uk>:
> > I have been writing a lot of AGI programs in C with good success.
> > I would like somehow to have an AGI program continue in the background
> > while the pbx execution returns to the dialplan and continues. Is this
> > possible? I was thinking that perhaps I could fork or create another
> > thread within the AGI prog.
> >
> > The reason I want to do so is in order to monitor external information
> > (e.g. credit limit and realtime cost of the current call) and then
> > perhaps hang up the call, transfer it or play an announcement to it.
> >
> > I'm aware I could do this with a separate control program using the
> > Manager API, but I like the idea of it being done per-call on demand
> > using AGI if possible.
> >
> > Can anyone suggest any ideas or better techniques?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > Tony
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