[asterisk-users] Local channel characteristics

[Yuan LIU]

I'm reading about Local channel and applications.  One fancy idea came up: 
if my generic dial plan uses Dial() with no timeout, can I assign it a 
timeout for special purposes by
  Dial(Local/some-exten at mycontext,,20)
or even add other Dial() options.

Well, I can't. (Maybe a feature request?)  So this pseudo channel seems to 
lack some characteristics of a "real" one.  Now the question is: what 
characteristics Local does have?  I can imagine that many Dial() options 
won't be effective, either.  Where are these stuff documented?

Yuan Liu