[Asterisk-Users] How to do "asynchrononous" Dial?

[Alexander Lopez]

 So what you ant to do is FORK and kick the first proc into background.


You may be able to do this with the Local Channel...

Alex

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> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> John Biundo
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 8:24 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] How to do "asynchrononous" Dial?
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> Sorry if my requirements weren't clear.  I need a general 
> purpose "run this in the background" capability.  The 
> voicemail was simply an example, and probably a bad one.  I 
> want the Dial command to go off on a separate thread so the 
> main thread can continue.  What happens in that second thread 
> is arbitrary.  I'll deal with getting "data" in and out of 
> that second thread as appropriate - perhaps by dropping stuff 
> in a database or some other synchronization method.  The key 
> is that while that second "background task" is executing, the 
> initial thread of execution doesn't block and can continue 
> running arbitrary Asterisk applications.
> 
> > See sample.call in the Asterisk source directory and .call files on 
> > the Wiki.  Sounds like you want Asterisk to call a person when a 
> > voicemail is left and allow the person to get their 
> voicemail during 
> > the notification call.
> > 
> 
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