[Asterisk-Users] calling shell scripts from within *

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:44:50AM +0200, Giorgio Incantalupo wrote:
> Hi,
> we are using AGI command to call external python script but it can be a 
> good solution if you have a small PBX .
> There are res_perl and res_python that promise a better performance but 
> we are still working on it. I suggest you to try them if your call flow 
> is very intensive.

A fork/exec is involved anyway because of calling an external program. And \
bash is lighter than than python/perl . This is exactly what System is for, 
as it does not need to interact with the dialplan.

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