On Thursday 24 April 2008 03:51, Tobias Ahlander wrote: > Is it possible to somehow fork in the dialplan? Say a call comes in. Then I > want to wait 30 seconds and then write in a database, but at the same time > while I wait I want to go on with other commands too.
There isn't a fork, but there is a method built in that is rather similar to the alarm(2) interface in the kernel, which is called Absolute Timeout. The method of using this is Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=30), which sets a timer that will fire in 30 seconds. When that timer fires, any application that is currently executing will terminate, and you will be redirected to the "T" extension in the current context. Note that you can also cancel this timer by using setting the timeout to 0, i.e. Set(TIMEOUT(absolute)=0). Also note that there can only be a single absolute timeout per channel (i.e. setting a new timeout resets any timer currently in effect). -- Tilghman _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
