[asterisk-users] Usage of lock in CDR

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 22 March 2011 00:56:05 Nikhil wrote:
> Hi all
>      In asterisk source code we can see lots of places
> AST_CDR_FLAG_LOCKED flags is used.This is for CDR purpose. Does anyone
> what is exact usage of this lock in CDR.If I remove this flags where it
> will impact,any data overwrite will happen..?

Yes.  The purpose of the lock is to force a record to become a snapshot at
the time the record was locked.  If you remove that flag, then almost any
update to the CDR will overwrite the entire record with a new snapshot.

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Tilghman