[Asterisk-Dev] Problem with hanging up a SIP channel

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 10:45, imran ahmed wrote:
> You need to use ast_hangup on channels that are not in the dialplan.
> May be you are holding the channel lock before calling ast_hangup in
> this case.

ast_hangup() should only ever be called by a channel driver on its own
channel (and even then, only in the channel's hangup routine).  For all
other cases, you need to request the hangup via ast_softhangup() and
let the channel process the hangup when it is ready.

-- 
Tilghman