On 20/09/11 03:37 PM, Ira wrote:
At 07:09 AM 9/20/2011, you wrote:
Using "start" makes your dialplans much easier to read :-) and makes
them more secure as no app will end up there by accident, which may
happen in your current systems.
When I went and read version 3 it seemed to indicate that "start" has no
actual meaning and I could just as well call it cow or fish.
Am I reading it correctly or does the word start actually have a special
meaning?
No, that extension 'start' (literal) has no special meaning. You
absolutely could call it cow, fish, pig, or farmer_john. How you get
there is by implicitly calling it.
exten => s... on the other hand has always had special meaning as Olle
has pointed out, and typically has meant "start" (for analog lines).
Outside of that you shouldn't really be using the 's' extension as your
default extensions. The 's' extension has never been a "catch-all"
extension. Olle has found a situation where the 's' extension is being
used as a fallback, which is not right, and is suggesting we make
Asterisk consistent in it's usage of 's'. I agree with his proposal.
But because this functionality (bug) has been around for quite some
time, he is asking the community for feedback on who may have
inadvertently used the functionality in their dialplans.
Apologies for anyone who may have read some documentation that appeared
to imply that the 's' extension was a catch-all. In the first and second
editions of Asterisk: The Future of Telephony we were mostly using
analog lines, and thus the usage of the extension 's' was fairly
prominent. There are many other single letter extensions that have extra
meaning, such as 'i', 't', etc..., but we never intended to imply that
's' was a catch-all extension.
--
Leif Madsen
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/asterisk
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