[asterisk-users] Chanspy on Asterisk 1.4.19

[Mike]

Anthony,

What bug report ID# would that be? Not being a dev I find it hard to know
which of the 4 chanspy bug I need a patch for, since none of them seem to
refer to a 1.4.19 bug.

Mike 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Anthony Francis
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 23:27
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Chanspy on Asterisk 1.4.19
> 
> I saw a patch attached to that bug report, just download it 
> run patch and then make clean && make install, restart 
> asterisk and you should be smokin.
> 
> Mike wrote:
> >  
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark 
> >> Michelson
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 17:18
> >> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Chanspy on Asterisk 1.4.19
> >>
> >> Mike wrote:
> >>     
> >>> My own Chanspy(g(GROUPNAME)) works 2 times out of three 
> (roughly).  
> >>> The other time, it crashes Asterisk. Using 1.4.19 too.
> >>>
> >>> Mike
> >>>
> >>>       
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> >>>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf
> >>>>         
> >> Of Steve
> >>     
> >>>> Rawlings
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 14:10
> >>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> >>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Chanspy on Asterisk 1.4.19
> >>>>
> >>>> Guys,
> >>>>
> >>>> Sean Bright wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> Steve Totaro wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>>>> Should one have to change their dialplan for functionality
> >>>>>>             
> >>>> to remain
> >>>>         
> >>>>>> the same in the same version?
> >>>>>>             
> >>>>> I wasn't suggesting it wasn't a regression, just making the
> >>>>>           
> >>>> OP aware
> >>>>         
> >>>>> that he can pass multiple arguments to a dialplan
> >>>>>           
> >> application (i.e.
> >>     
> >>>>> ChanSpy(|bg(2000)))
> >>>>>
> >>>>> He mentioned that he was able to get it to work in 1.4.19
> >>>>>           
> >>>> by passing
> >>>>         
> >>>>> the bridge argument ('b') but didn't seem to be aware
> >>>>>           
> >> that he could
> >>     
> >>>>> also pass his original argument list ('g(2000)') as 
> well.  Seems 
> >>>>> easier to just work around the problem with the
> >>>>>           
> >> additional argument
> >>     
> >>>>> than to backport the application.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Yes I was aware of multiple arguments, I did try
> >>>>         
> >> chanspy(|bg(2000)),
> >>     
> >>>> I tried all combinations I could think of.  Although 
> maybe what I 
> >>>> should have said was I tried
> >>>> chanspy(|b) just to prove chanspy itself was working at
> >>>>         
> >> all (and it
> >>     
> >>>> was), with chanspy(|bg(2000)) the 'spygroup'
> >>>> element didn't work, it just spied on every active call.
> >>>>
> >>>> Anyway, I've raised a bug report as requested by Jared at Digium.
> >>>>
> >>>> Steve
> >>>>         
> >> This was an incredibly subtle bug that was introduced into
> >> 1.4.19 when the other work was done on chanspy to fix crashes and 
> >> deadlocks. It has been fixed in 1.4 in SVN revision 114226.
> >>
> >> Basically, chanspy was a crapshoot if you didn't specify a first 
> >> argument, because the function intended to walk through 
> the list of 
> >> active channels would always end up returning the first channel it 
> >> found. If that happened to be a spy-able channel, then great, 
> >> otherwise you'd never spy on anything.
> >>
> >> Mark Michelson
> >>     
> >
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > I added a first argument.  Here is my line now:
> > exten => *012,n,Chanspy(SIP,qg(GROUP_NAME))
> >
> > Unfortunately, that still crashes Asterisk once out of 3-5 
> times.  Is 
> > there anyway to absolutely prevent crashes with this bug in 
> vanilla 1.4.19?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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