[asterisk-users] <UsingWaitorPlaybackinhextension at gmail.com>,

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 06/04/2010 02:48 PM, Philipp von Klitzing wrote:

>> Essentially, the only things that make sense to use in the 'h'
>> extension are those that don't have anything to do with the external
>> channel that was involved before the hangup. No audio, no DTMF, etc. 
> 
> So why does Wait() not work then - is there a fixed timeout set after 
> which h must have been completed?

Wait() could be modified to work on a dead channel, but as it stands
right now the code assumes the channel is alive, and to ensure that
things work properly, it has to read incoming media from the channel so
it can be discarded... and if at any time waiting for or reading media
from the channel fails, it exits, because there's no point in continuing
to wait since the call is gone.

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