[asterisk-users] Fixing an old bug related to extension "s" - feedback wanted

Leif Madsen leif.madsen at asteriskdocs.org
Tue Sep 20 19:32:22 CDT 2011


On 20/09/11 09:34 AM, Danny Nicholas wrote:
> Just my .02 - fix Originate since the "Original Asterisk" book, page 125
> paragraph 1 says "s" = "start".  If "s" is not really "start", I'm going to
> scrap my 3+ years of dialplan writing and change all of my simple dialplans
> to read exten=>  start,1,blah instead of exten =>  s,1,blah.  To me exten=>
> s,1,blah is more intuitive and less vulnerable than exten =>  _X.,1,blah.

The 's' extension does stand for 'start' but I don't think we've ever 
implied it was a catch-all extension.

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Leif Madsen
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