This commit modifies btcd to run cleanly as a Windows service. btcd is
intended to be a long running process that stays synchronized with the
bitcoin block chain and provides chain services to multiple users. It
follows that a service is the best option on Windows for this
functionality.
A few key points are:
- Supports graceful shutdown via the service stop/shutdown commands
- Integrates cleanly with the Windows event log
- Adds a new /s flag that can be used to install/remove/start/stop the
service
One outstanding issue is that the application data directory is currently
user specific which means, by default, if you start btcd as a user, the
same data won't be used as when it's running as a service. This needs to
be resovled. The most likely approach will be to put all data into the
common appdata directory Windows provides, but it will require some
additional work to deal with permissions properly as user processes can't
write there by default.
Closes#42.
This commit is a rather large one which implements transaction pool and
relay according to the protocol rules of the reference implementation.
It makes use of btcchain to ensure the transactions are valid for the
block chain and includes several stricter checks which determine if they
are "standard" or not before admitting them into the pool and relaying
them.
There are still a few TODOs around the more strict rules which determine
which transactions are willing to be mined, but the core checks which
are imperative (everything except the all of the "standard" checks really)
to operate as a good citizen on the bitcoin network are in place.
