Show HN: Siproc – A primitive SIP client that spawns processes for each call
schm1dt.chSpawning a process for each call / endpoint is how almost every large phone switchboard does it. See also: Erlang The Movie:
Erlang's definition of a process is a much lighter weight than Linux's, though.
In deed this has been suggested to me by other people (of course _after_ discussing above software with them :). Yet I believe siproc still has a few benefits to offer, most notably not having to set up/build a full PBX to run it.
Who uses Erlang in telephony besides Ericsson?
AFAIK Motorola does (did?) too.
This is a project I desperately needed a few times in the past, but could not find anything covering my needs.
What it does is to act as a SIP softphone, and spawn a process for each incoming or outgoing call, which can handle events (like DTMF tones) or do actions (like playing files) via stdin/stdout.
Currently, I am using it to spam filter incoming calls at home.
As a side question: I wonder where one can publish software like this nowadays, when freshmeat etc. are either gone or read-only. Preferably a place that is not GitHub.
https://freshcode.club/ is the successor to freshmeat, not sure how well known it is though.
https://sourcehut.org/ is what I recommend for publishing code when one doesn't want to use GitHub/etc.
The first one looks neat, and if it is indexed by Google/duckduckgo/Bing/AltaVista it should be sufficient for people to find the project. Thanks for pointing it out.
The last one looks like it has too many features for my taste, but I will keep it in the back of my mind (or rather: my bookmarks) if I'm ever in need of something along the lines of GitHub.
I didn't look at the code yet, but this looks like it would be super useful for a home project I have now (interface with DoorKing gate controller) and would have been very helpful at my last job (verification code delivery).
Please consider adding a license.
Good point with the license, GPLv3-ified it now. This should not be a hindrance to use the software, since one never needs to link against it.
Thanks :)
I've used FreeSWITCH for this kind of thing. MPL.
What is the git web server you're using? The UI is very clean and the underlying markup and CSS is also quite minimal.
stagit. Especially cool since it does not depend on FastCGI/CGI but merely generates a static site on every push: https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/