[asterisk-dev] "Generic" or "Core" scheduler thread?

[Russell Bryant]

On 06/03/2011 10:02 AM, Steve Davies wrote:
> I looked through the source, and could not see one, but is there a
> thread than handles some kind of "generic" scheduler that can be used
> by the PBX, or other parts of Asterisk core, in order to
> asynchronously clean up some data structures?
> 
> Specifically, I would like to schedule an ast_channel_free(c) of a
> zombie channel so that it occurs "real soon", but not right now, while
> I have a handful of deadlock causing locks to contend with.

No, there is no generic scheduler thread (yet).  It has crossed my mind
before, though...

Take a look at include/asterisk/sched.h.  It would be fairly straight
forward to add.  You would just allocate a scheduler context and then
run ast_sched_start_thread() on it.

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