The docs talk about bits 2 and 4 instead of 2 and 3, and bits are being
indexed from both 1 (describing nCode) and 0 (in second example).
Changed to use zero-indexing for all.
6342a48 Init: Use DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE in help message (MarcoFalke)
a9c73a1 [wallet] Add comments for doxygen (MarcoFalke)
6b0e622 [wallet] Refactor to use new MIN_CHANGE (MarcoFalke)
a6efc01 Bugfix: Omit wallet-related options from -help when wallet is disabled (Luke Dashjr)
5f9260f Bugfix: If genproclimit is omitted to RPC setgenerate, don't change it; also show correct default in getmininginfo (Luke Dashjr)
420a82f Bugfix: Describe dblogsize option correctly (it refers to the wallet database, not memory pool) (Luke Dashjr)
caa3d42 Bugfix: RPC: blockchain: Display correct defaults in help for verifychain method (Luke Dashjr)
Moves the call Initialize() from init.cpp to CreateWithArguments() and handles the
return value. Moves the call Shutdown() from init.cpp to destructor.
Changes Initialize() and Shutdown() to protected members.
Revert "Revert "Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations""
This reverts commit 40cd32e835.
After careful analysis it was determined that the change was, in fact, safe and several people were suffering
momentary confusion about locktime semantics.
When processing a new transaction, in addition to spending the Coins of its txin's it creates a new Coins for its outputs. The existing ModifyCoins function will first make sure this Coins does not already exist. It can not exist due to BIP 30, but because of that the lookup can't be cached and always has to go to the database. Since we are creating the coins to match the new tx anyway, there is no point in checking if they exist first anyway. However this should not be used for coinbase tx's in order to preserve the historical behavior of overwriting the two existing duplicate tx pairs.
40cd32e Revert "Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations" (Gregory Maxwell)
8537ecd Revert "Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints" (Gregory Maxwell)
This reverts commit 9d55050773.
As noted by Luke-Jr, under some conditions this will accept transactions which are invalid by the network
rules. This happens when the current block time is head of the median time past and a transaction's
locktime is in the middle.
This could be addressed by changing the rule to MAX(this_block_time, MTP+offset) but this solution and
the particular offset used deserve some consideration.
* Introduce new constant MIN_CHANGE and use it instead of the
hardcoded "CENT"
* Add test case for MIN_CHANGE
* Introduce new constant for -mintxfee default:
DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE = 1000
Reduce the default limits on maximum number of transactions and the cumulative size of those transactions in both ancestor and descendant packages to 25 txs and 101kb total size.
Update the unittest that is meant to catch a transaction that is invalid
because it has a null input. The old test failed not because of that
but because it was considered a coinbase with too large script. This is
already checked with a different test, though.
The new test is *not* a coinbase since it has two inputs, but one of
them is null. This really checks the corresponding code path in
CheckTransaction.
143d173 Use BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE() rather than BOOST_CHECK() in alerts_tests.cpp and initialize strMiscWarning before calling PartitionCheck()." (Eric Lombrozo)
* -maxuploadtarget can be set in MiB
* if <limit> - ( time-left-in-24h-cycle / 600 * MAX_BLOCK_SIZE ) has reach, stop serve blocks older than one week and filtered blocks
* no action if limit has reached, no guarantee that the target will not be surpassed
* add outbound limit informations to rpc getnettotals
dea8d21 Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints (Mark Friedenbach)
9d55050 Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations (Mark Friedenbach)
Until now there were quite a few leftovers, and only the coverage
related files in `src/` were cleaned, while the ones in the other dirs
remained. `qa/tmp/` is related to the BitcoinJ tests, and `cache/` is
related to RPC tests.
Transactions are not allowed in the memory pool or selected for inclusion in a block until their lock times exceed chainActive.Tip()->GetMedianTimePast(). However blocks including transactions which are only mature under the old rules are still accepted; this is *not* the soft-fork required to actually rely on the new constraint in production.
The lock-time code currently uses CBlock::nTime as the cutoff point for time based locked transactions. This has the unfortunate outcome of creating a perverse incentive for miners to lie about the time of a block in order to collect more fees by including transactions that by wall clock determination have not yet matured. By using CBlockIndex::GetMedianTimePast from the prior block instead, the self-interested miner no longer gains from generating blocks with fraudulent timestamps. Users can compensate for this change by simply adding an hour (3600 seconds) to their time-based lock times.
If enforced, this would be a soft-fork change. This commit only adds the functionality on an unexecuted code path, without changing the behaviour of Bitcoin Core.
Nagle appears to be a significant contributor to latency now that the static
sleeps are gone. Most of our messages are relatively large compared to
IP + TCP so I do not expect this to create enormous overhead.
This may also reduce traffic burstyness somewhat.
Add a comment that explains why the initial "getheader" requests are
made starting from the block preceding the currently best one.
Thanks to sdaftuar for the explanation!
There is no exact science to setting this parameter, but 5000
(just over 1 US cent at the time of writing) is higher than the
cost to relay a transaction around the network (the new benchmark
due to mempool limiting).
After each transaction which is added to mempool, we first call
Expire() to remove old transactions, then throwing away the
lowest-feerate transactions.
After throwing away transactions by feerate, we set the minimum
relay fee to the maximum fee transaction-and-dependant-set we
removed, plus the default minimum relay fee.
After the next block is received, the minimum relay fee is allowed
to decrease exponentially. Its halflife defaults to 12 hours, but
is decreased to 6 hours if the mempool is smaller than half its
maximum size, and 3 hours if the mempool is smaller than a quarter
its maximum size.
The minimum -maxmempool size is 40*-limitdescendantsize, as it is
easy for an attacker to play games with the cheapest
-limitdescendantsize transactions. -maxmempool defaults to 300MB.
This disables high-priority transaction relay when the min relay
fee adjustment is >0 (ie when the mempool is full). When the relay
fee adjustment drops below the default minimum relay fee / 2 it is
set to 0 (re-enabling priority-based free relay).
(note the 9x multiplier on (void*)'s for CTxMemPool::DynamicMemoryUsage
was accidentally introduced in 5add7a7 but should have waited for this
commit which adds the extra index)
To bridge the time until a dynamic method for determining this fee is
merged.
This is especially aimed at the stable releases (0.10, 0.11) because
full mempool limiting, as will be in 0.12, is too invasive and risky to
backport.
1534d9a Creates unittests for addrman, makes addrman testable. Adds several unittests for addrman to verify it works as expected. Makes small modifications to addrman to allow deterministic and targeted tests. (EthanHeilman)
Adds an `obfuscate` parameter to `CLevelDBWrapper` and makes use of it
for all new chainstate stores built via `CCoinsViewDB`. Also adds an
`Xor` method to `CDataStream`.
Thanks to @sipa @laanwj @pstratem @dexX7 @KyrosKrane @gmaxwell.
This adds SCRIPT_VERIFY_LOW_S to STANDARD_SCRIPT_VERIFY_FLAGS which
will make the node require the canonical 'low-s' encoding for
ECDSA signatures when relaying or mining.
Consensus behavior is unchanged.
The rational is explained in a81cd96805:
Absent this kind of test ECDSA is not a strong signature as given
a valid signature {r, s} both that value and {r, -s mod n} are valid.
These two encodings have different hashes allowing third parties a
vector to change users txids. These attacks are avoided by picking
a particular form as canonical and rejecting the other form(s); in
the of the LOW_S rule, the smaller of the two possible S values is
used.
If widely deployed this change would eliminate the last remaining
known vector for nuisance malleability on boring SIGHASH_ALL
p2pkh transactions. On the down-side it will block most
transactions made by sufficiently out of date software.
Unlike the other avenues to change txids on boring transactions this
one was randomly violated by all deployed bitcoin software prior to
its discovery. So, while other malleability vectors where made
non-standard as soon as they were discovered, this one has remained
permitted. Even BIP62 did not propose applying this rule to
old version transactions, but conforming implementations have become
much more common since BIP62 was initially written.
Bitcoin Core has produced compatible signatures since a28fb70e in
September 2013, but this didn't make it into a release until 0.9
in March 2014; Bitcoinj has done so for a similar span of time.
Bitcoinjs and electrum have been more recently updated.
This does not replace the need for BIP62 or similar, as miners can
still cooperate to break transactions. Nor does it replace the
need for wallet software to handle malleability sanely[1]. This
only eliminates the cheap and irritating DOS attack.
[1] On the Malleability of Bitcoin Transactions
Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, Łukasz Mazurek
http://fc15.ifca.ai/preproceedings/bitcoin/paper_9.pdf
- to match the peers.dat handling also supply a debug.log entry for how
many entries were loaded from banlist.dat and how long it took
- add a GUI init message for loading the banlist (same as with peers.dat)
- move the same message for peers.dat upwards in the code, to be able to
reuse the timing variable nStart and also just log, if our read from
peers.dat didn't fail
- only start working on/with banlist data, if reading in the banlist from
disk didn't fail
- as CNode::setBannedIsDirty is false (default) when reading fails, we
don't need to explicitly set it to false to prevent writing
banlist.dat in that case either
Previously only one PUSHDATA was allowed, needlessly limiting
applications such as matching OP_RETURN contents with bloom filters that
operate on a per-PUSHDATA level. Now any combination that passes
IsPushOnly() is allowed, so long as the total size of the scriptPubKey
is less than 42 bytes. (unchanged modulo non-minimal PUSHDATA encodings)
Also, this fixes the odd bug where previously the PUSHDATA could be
replaced by any single opcode, even sigops consuming opcodes such as
CHECKMULTISIG. (20 sigops!)
Previously unlike other transaction types the TX_SCRIPTHASH would not
clear vSolutionsRet, which means that unlike other transaction types if
it was called twice in a row you would get the result of the previous
invocation as well.
Avoid calling gettimeofday every time through the benchmarking loop, by keeping
track of how long each loop takes and doubling the number of iterations done
between time checks when they take less than 1/16'th of the total elapsed time.
Benchmarking framework, loosely based on google's micro-benchmarking
library (https://github.com/google/benchmark)
Wny not use the Google Benchmark framework? Because adding Even More Dependencies
isn't worth it. If we get a dozen or three benchmarks and need nanosecond-accurate
timings of threaded code then switching to the full-blown Google Benchmark library
should be considered.
The benchmark framework is hard-coded to run each benchmark for one wall-clock second,
and then spits out .csv-format timing information to stdout. It is left as an
exercise for later (or maybe never) to add command-line arguments to specify which
benchmark(s) to run, how long to run them for, how to format results, etc etc etc.
Again, see the Google Benchmark framework for where that might end up.
See src/bench/MilliSleep.cpp for a sanity-test benchmark that just benchmarks
'sleep 100 milliseconds.'
To compile and run benchmarks:
cd src; make bench
Sample output:
Benchmark,count,min,max,average
Sleep100ms,10,0.101854,0.105059,0.103881
This makes sure that the event loop eventually terminates, even if an
event (like an open timeout, or a hanging connection) happens to be
holding it up.
Add a WaitExit() call to http's WorkQueue to make it delete the work
queue only when all worker threads stopped.
This fixes a problem that was reproducable by pressing Ctrl-C during
AppInit2:
```
/usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/condition_variable_fwd.hpp:81: boost::condition_variable::~condition_variable(): Assertion `!ret' failed.
/usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/mutex.hpp:108: boost::mutex::~mutex(): Assertion `!posix::pthread_mutex_destroy(&m)' failed.
```
I was assuming that `threadGroup->join_all();` would always have been
called when entering the Shutdown(). However this is not the case in
bitcoind's AppInit2-non-zero-exit case "was left out intentionally
here".
Shutting down the HTTP server currently breaks off all current requests.
This can create a race condition with RPC `stop` command, where the calling
process never receives confirmation.
This change removes the listening sockets on shutdown so that no new
requests can come in, but no longer breaks off requests in progress.
Meant to fix#6717.
The "please check your computer's data and time" message when the clock
deviates from the network currently generates an overkill of messages:
orion@lethe:~/bitcoin$ src/bitcoind
Warning: Warning: Please check that your computer's date and time are correct! If your clock is wrong Bitcoin Core will not work properly.
In the log:
2015-09-27 16:24:13 *** Warning: Please check that your computer's date and time are correct! If your clock is wrong Bitcoin Core will not work properly.
2015-09-27 16:24:13 Warning: Warning: Please check that your computer's date and time are correct! If your clock is wrong Bitcoin Core will not work properly.
Remove one level of 'Warning:' and reduce to one log message.
af3208b Resolve issue 3166. These changes decode valid SIGHASH types on signatures in assembly (asm) representations of scriptSig scripts. This squashed commit incorporates substantial helpful feedback from jtimon, laanwj, and sipa. (mruddy)
CalculateMemPoolAncestors was always looping over a transaction's inputs
to find in-mempool parents. When adding a new transaction, this is the
correct behavior, but when removing a transaction, we want to use the
ancestor set that would be calculated by walking mapLinks (which should
in general be the same set, except during a reorg when the mempool is
in an inconsistent state, and the mapLinks-based calculation would be the
correct one).
* Raise the debug window when hidden behind other windows
* Switch to the debug window when on another virtual desktop
* Show the debug window when minimized
This change is a conceptual copy of 5ffaaba and 382e9e2
Assume that when a wallet transaction has a valid block hash and transaction position
in it, the transaction is actually there. We're already trusting wallet data in a
much more fundamental way anyway.
To prevent backward compatibility issues, a new record is used for storing the
block locator in the wallet. Old wallets will see a wallet file synchronized up
to the genesis block, and rescan automatically.
7aac6db [QT] dump banlist to disk in case of ban/unban over QT (Jonas Schnelli)
7f90ea7 [QA] adabt QT_NO_KEYWORDS for QT ban implementation (Jonas Schnelli)
07f70b2 [QA] fix netbase tests because of new CSubNet::ToString() output (Jonas Schnelli)
4ed0510 [Qt] call DumpBanlist() when baning unbaning nodes (Philip Kaufmann)
be89292 [Qt] reenabling hotkeys for ban context menu, use different words (Jonas Schnelli)
b1189cf [Qt] adapt QT ban option to banlist.dat changes (Jonas Schnelli)
65abe91 [Qt] add sorting for bantable (Philip Kaufmann)
51654de [Qt] bantable polish (Philip Kaufmann)
cdd72cd [Qt] simplify ban list signal handling (Philip Kaufmann)
43c1f5b [Qt] remove unused timer-code from banlistmodel.cpp (Jonas Schnelli)
e2b8028 net: Fix CIDR notation in ToString() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
9e521c1 [Qt] polish ban table (Philip Kaufmann)
607809f net: use CIDR notation in CSubNet::ToString() (Jonas Schnelli)
53caec6 [Qt] bantable overhaul (Jonas Schnelli)
f0bcbc4 [Qt] bantable fix timestamp 64bit issue (Jonas Schnelli)
6135309 [Qt] banlist, UI optimizing and better signal handling (Jonas Schnelli)
770ca79 [Qt] add context menu with unban option to ban table (Jonas Schnelli)
5f42132 [Qt] add ui signal for banlist changes (Jonas Schnelli)
ad204df [Qt] add banlist table below peers table (Jonas Schnelli)
50f0908 [Qt] add ban functions to peers window (Jonas Schnelli)
ddf98d1 Make RPC tests cope with server-side timeout between requests (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2190ea6 rpc: Split option -rpctimeout into -rpcservertimeout and -rpcclienttimeout (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8b2d6ed http: Disable libevent debug logging, if not explicitly enabled (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
5ce43da init: Ignore SIGPIPE (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
The two timeouts for the server and client, are essentially different:
- In the case of the server it should be a lower value to avoid clients
clogging up connection slots
- In the case of the client it should be a high value to accomedate slow
responses from the server, for example for slow queries or when the
lock is contended
Split the options into `-rpcservertimeout` and `-rpcclienttimeout` with
respective defaults of 30 and 900.
Associate with each CTxMemPoolEntry all the size/fees of descendant
mempool transactions. Sort mempool by max(feerate of entry, feerate
of descendants). Update statistics on-the-fly as transactions enter
or leave the mempool.
Also add ancestor and descendant limiting, so that transactions can
be rejected if the number or size of unconfirmed ancestors exceeds
a target, or if adding a transaction would cause some other mempool
entry to have too many (or too large) a set of unconfirmed in-
mempool descendants.
Ignore SIGPIPE on all non-win32 OSes, otherwise an unexpectedly disconnecting
RPC client will terminate the application. This problem was introduced
with the libhttp-based RPC server.
Fixes#6660.
The thin space QT html hack results in cut-off chars/nums after a line break.
Avoid word wrap line breaks by using a smaller font and a line break before each alternative value)
GetTransaction needs to lock cs_main until ReadBlockFromDisk completes, the data inside CBlockIndex's can change since pruning. This lock was held by all calls to GetTransaction except rest_tx.
- removes mapBlockIndex find operation
- theoretically allows removing the cs_main lock during zqm notification while introducing a new file position lock
- add missing NULL pointer checks
- add better comments and reorder some code in rpcconsole.cpp
- remove unneeded leftovers in bantable.cpp
- update bantable column sizes to prevent cutting of banned until
- remove banListChanged signal from client model
- directly call clientModel->getBanTableModel()->refresh() without the way
over clientModel->updateBanlist()
- also fix clearing peer detail window, when selecting (clicking)
peers in the ban list
Continues Johnathan Corgan's work.
Publishing multipart messages
Bugfix: Add missing zmq header includes
Bugfix: Adjust build system to link ZeroMQ code for Qt binaries
We log the cleanSubVer as part of connect. It is not uniquely more informative
than any of the other data we have about a peer, often less. It's also often
long now as well. There is no need to output it as part of mempoolrej,
AcceptToMemoryPool, or pong entries. Leaving it out makes our log entries
more uniform and consistent.
This patch changes the way the suffix (giving the requested data format) is
parsed for REST requests. Before, the string was split at '.'
characters and it was assumed that the second part was the suffix.
Now, we look for the last dot and use that to determine the suffix.
This allows for strings that contain dots (not used now, though), and
seems, in general, to be clearer and more intuitive.
Complete rescan is incompatible with pruning, but rescan is optional on
our wallet key import RPCs. Import on use is very useful in some common
situations in conjunction with pruning, e.g. merchant payment tracking.
This reenables importprivkey/importaddress/importpubkey when rescan
is not used.
In the future we should consider changing the rescan argument to allow depth
or date to allow limited rescanning when compatible with the retained
block depth.
Lets nodes advertise that they offer bloom filter support explicitly.
The protocol version bump allows SPV nodes to assume that NODE_BLOOM is
set if NODE_NETWORK is set for pre-70011 nodes.
Also adds an option to turn bloom filter support off for nodes which
advertise a version number >= 70011. Nodes attempting to use bloom
filters on such protocol versions are banned, and a later upgade
should drop nodes of an older version which attempt to use bloom
filters.
Much code stolen from Peter Todd.
Implements BIP 111
`nMinPingUsecTime` was left uninitialized in CNode.
The correct initialization for a minimum-until-now is int64_t's max value, so initialize it to that.
Thanks @MarcoFalke for noticing.
d528025 Revert "rpc-tests: re-enable rpc-tests for Windows" (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
1e700c9 doc: update deps in build-unix.md after libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
26c9b83 Move windows socket init to utility function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4be0b08 libevent: Windows reuseaddr workaround in depends (Cory Fields)
3a174cd Fix race condition between starting HTTP server thread and setting EventBase() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6d2bc22 Document options for new HTTP/RPC server in --help (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
be33f3f Implement RPCTimerHandler for Qt RPC console (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
57d85d9 doc: mention SSL support dropped for RPC in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
40b556d evhttpd implementation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
ee2a42b tests: GET requests cannot have request body, use POST in rest.py (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6e996d3 tests: fix qt payment test (Cory Fields)
3140ef9 build: build-system changes for libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a9af234 libevent: add depends (Cory Fields)
6a21dd5 Remove rpc_boostasiotocnetaddr test (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8f9301c qa: Remove -rpckeepalive tests from httpbasics (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
51fcfc0 doc: remove documentation for rpcssl (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
The main effect is to exit processing for recently-rejected hashes,
in case they are pushed to us without prior advertisement. This
behavior was seen in the wild.
An additional effect is to do early checks for mempool or mapOrphan
existence. No logging or nDoS tracking is needed for failures of
these checks.
027de94 Use network group instead of CNetAddr in final pass to select node to disconnect (Patrick Strateman)
000c18a Fix comment (Patrick Strateman)
fed3094 Acquire cs_vNodes before changing refrence counts (Patrick Strateman)
69ee1aa CNodeRef copy constructor and assignment operator (Patrick Strateman)
dc81dd0 Return false early if vEvictionCandidates is empty (Patrick Strateman)
17f3533 Better support for nodes with non-standard nMaxConnections (Patrick Strateman)
1317cd1 RAII wrapper for CNode* (Patrick Strateman)
df23937 Add comments to AttemptToEvictConnection (Patrick Strateman)
a8f6e45 Remove redundant whiteconnections option (Patrick Strateman)
b105ba3 Prefer to disconnect peers in favor of whitelisted peers (Patrick Strateman)
2c70153 AttemptToEvictConnection (Patrick Strateman)
4bac601 Record nMinPingUsecTime (Patrick Strateman)
ae037b7 Refactor: Move failure conditions to the top of AcceptConnection (Patrick Strateman)
1ef4817 Refactor: Bail early in AcceptConnection (Patrick Strateman)
541a1dd Refactor: AcceptConnection (Patrick Strateman)
Split StartHTTPServer into InitHTTPServer and StartHTTPServer to give
clients a window to register their handlers without race conditions.
Thanks @ajweiss for figuring this out.
Implement RPCTimerHandler for Qt RPC console, so that `walletpassphrase`
works with GUI and `-server=0`.
Also simplify HTTPEvent-related code by using boost::function directly.
- *Replace usage of boost::asio with [libevent2](http://libevent.org/)*.
boost::asio is not part of C++11, so unlike other boost there is no
forwards-compatibility reason to stick with it. Together with #4738 (convert
json_spirit to UniValue), this rids Bitcoin Core of the worst offenders with
regard to compile-time slowness.
- *Replace spit-and-duct-tape http server with evhttp*. Front-end http handling
is handled by libevent, a work queue (with configurable depth and parallelism)
is used to handle application requests.
- *Wrap HTTP request in C++ class*; this makes the application code mostly
HTTP-server-neutral
- *Refactor RPC to move all http-specific code to a separate file*.
Theoreticaly this can allow building without HTTP server but with another RPC
backend, e.g. Qt's debug console (currently not implemented) or future RPC
mechanisms people may want to use.
- *HTTP dispatch mechanism*; services (e.g., RPC, REST) register which URL
paths they want to handle.
By using a proven, high-performance asynchronous networking library (also used
by Tor) and HTTP server, problems such as #5674, #5655, #344 should be avoided.
What works? bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, bitcoin-qt. Unit tests and RPC/REST tests
pass. The aim for now is everything but SSL support.
Configuration options:
- `-rpcthreads`: repurposed as "number of work handler threads". Still
defaults to 4.
- `-rpcworkqueue`: maximum depth of work queue. When this is reached, new
requests will return a 500 Internal Error.
- `-rpctimeout`: inactivity time, in seconds, after which to disconnect a
client.
- `-debug=http`: low-level http activity logging
When running the rpc tests in Wine, nodes often fail to listen on localhost
due to a stale socket from a previous run. This aligns the behavior with other
platforms.
Fix https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6558. In particular, stop
parsing JSON after the first object or array is finished. Check that no
other garbage follows, and fail the parser if it does.
c5c1edf Fix spelling mistake in -> if. (Mark Friedenbach)
e846b2a Correct a possibly intentional pun that is nevertheless hard to read: "two times of nLockTime." What is meant is that there are two kinds, or categories of nLockTime. (Mark Friedenbach)
Since the introduction of the ScriptForMining callback, the mining
functions (setgenerate and generate) crash with an assertion failure
(due to a NULL pointer script returned) if the keypool is empty. Fix
this by giving a proper error.
d042854 SQUASH "Implement watchonly support in fundrawtransaction" (Matt Corallo)
428a898 SQUASH "Add have-pubkey distinction to ISMINE flags" (Matt Corallo)
6bdb474 Implement watchonly support in fundrawtransaction (Matt Corallo)
f5813bd Add logic to track pubkeys as watch-only, not just scripts (Matt Corallo)
d3354c5 Add have-pubkey distinction to ISMINE flags (Matt Corallo)
5c17059 Update importaddress help to push its use to script-only (Matt Corallo)
a1d7df3 Add importpubkey method to import a watch-only pubkey (Matt Corallo)
907a425 Add p2sh option to importaddress to import redeemScripts (Matt Corallo)
983d2d9 Split up importaddress into helper functions (Matt Corallo)
cfc3dd3 Also remove pay-2-pubkey from watch when adding a priv key (Matt Corallo)
Add error checking to CLevelDBWrapper for errors from
leveldb::DestroyDB(). Without it, if unlink() or DeleteFileW() fail to
delete files, they will fail silent. If they fail to delete any files,
CLevelDBWrapper will silently open and read the existing database.
Typically any permissions issues would be caught by leveldb as it churns
through many files as part of its compaction process, but it is
conceivable that this could cause problems on Windows with anti-virus
and indexing software.
7f1f8f5 Move mempool rejections to new debug category (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
66daed5 Add information to errors in ConnectBlock, CheckBlock (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6cab808 Remove most logging from transaction validation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
9003c7c Add function to convert CValidationState to a human-readable message (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
dc58258 Introduce REJECT_INTERNAL codes for local AcceptToMempool errors (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
fbf44e6 Add debug message to CValidationState for optional extra information (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Move mempool rejections to debug category `mempoolrej`, to make it possible
to show them without enabling the entire category `mempool` which is
high volume.
Add detailed state information to the errors, as it is no longer being
logged downstream.
Also add the state information to mempool rejection debug message in
ProcessMessages.
Remove unnecessary direct logging in CheckTransaction,
AcceptToMemoryPool, CheckTxInputs, CScriptCheck::operator()
All status information should be returned in the CValidationState.
Relevant debug information is also added to the CValidationState using
the recently introduced debug message.
Do keep the "BUG! PLEASE REPORT THIS! ConnectInputs failed against MANDATORY but not STANDARD flags"
error as it is meant to appear as bug in the log.
Add status codes specific to AcceptToMempool procession of transactions.
These can never happen due to block validation, and must never be sent
over the P2P network. Add assertions where appropriate.
627468d Add support for data-based outputs (OP_RETURN) to bitcoin-tx. (Pavel Janík)
d707853 Add OP_RETURN support in createrawtransaction RPC call, add tests. (Pavel Janík)
9493803 Revert "Revert "Assert on probable deadlocks if the second lock isnt try_lock"" (Cory Fields)
605433f locks: don't lock cs_wallet before making rpc calls (Cory Fields)
- add static verifySize() function to PaymentServer and move the logging
on error into the function
- also use the new function in the unit test
- the function checks if the size is allowed as per BIP70
- remove an unneeded include of net.h in peertablemodel.cpp
- add const after size() in PeerTablePriv
- remove 2x unneeded else in functions
- replace a (int) typecast by (QVariant) to use Qt style
- remove unneeded include of peertablemodel.h from rpcconsole.cpp
Add a field `strDebugMessage` which can be passed to DoS or Invalid,
and queried using GetDebugMessage() to add extra troubleshooting
information to the validation state.
5922b67 Add assertion and cast before sending reject code (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a651403 Add absurdly high fee message to validation state (for RPC propagation) (Shaul Kfir)
This gets rid of a warning. Add an assertion to make sure that the
reject code is in the correct range for the network protocol
(if it is outside the range it must be a bug)
7b79cbd limit total length of user agent comments (Pavol Rusnak)
557f8ea implement uacomment config parameter which can add comments to user agent as per BIP-0014 (Pavol Rusnak)
Previously various user-facing strings have used inconsistent currency units "BTC",
"btc" and "bitcoins". This adds a single constant and uses it for each reference to
the currency unit.
Also adds a description of the unit for --maxtxfee, and adds the missing "amount"
field description to the (deprecated) move RPC command.
Fixes#2007
This checks to see if the system clock appears to be bad and gives a
helpful error message. If the user's clock is set incorrectly, hopefully
they'll abort, fix it, and then save themselves a fruitless resync.
a8d0407 Move recentRejects initialization to top of InitBlockIndex (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
0847d9c Keep track of recently rejected transactions (Peter Todd)
d741371 Only use randomly created nonces in CRollingBloomFilter. (Pieter Wuille)
d2d7ee0 Make CRollingBloomFilter set nTweak for you (Peter Todd)
a3d65fe Reuse vector hashing code for uint256 (Pieter Wuille)
bbe4108 Add uint256 support to CRollingBloomFilter (Peter Todd)
c6455c7 doc: mention change to option parsing behavior in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
c38c49d Fix argument parsing oddity with -noX (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
This avoids that premature return in the condition that a new chain is initialized
results in NULL pointer errors due to recentReject not being constructed.
Also add assertions where it is used.
Introduce a PlatformStyle to handle platform-specific customization of
the UI.
This replaces 'scicon', as well as #ifdefs to determine whether to place
icons on buttons.
The selected PlatformStyle defaults to the platform that the application
was compiled on, but can be overridden from the command line with
`-uiplatform=<x>`.
Also fixes the warning from #6328.
These changes decode valid SIGHASH types on signatures in assembly (asm) representations of scriptSig scripts.
This squashed commit incorporates substantial helpful feedback from jtimon, laanwj, and sipa.
Clean up the code in chainparams a bit more after the recent
refactorings. In particular, make sure the structure of the "RegTest"
params matches the structure of the other classes. This makes the code
clearer to read.
Also remove redundant values of the genesis block in always-specified
optional arguments and mark variable/argument as "const".
59b49cd Eliminate signed/unsigned comparison warning (Suhas Daftuar)
04b5d23 Replace sleep with syncing using pings (Suhas Daftuar)
6b1066f Ignore whitelisting during IBD for unrequested blocks. (Suhas Daftuar)
bfc30b3 Ignore unrequested blocks too far ahead of tip (Suhas Daftuar)
Nodes can have divergent policies on which transactions they will accept
and relay. This can cause you to repeatedly request and reject the same
tx after its inved to you from various peers which have accepted it.
Here we add rolling bloom filter to keep track of such rejections,
clearing the filter every time the chain tip changes.
Credit goes to Alex Morcos, who created the patch that this code is
based on.
Original code by Peter Todd. Refactored to not construct the
filter at startup time by Pieter Wuille.
While CBloomFilter is usually used with an explicitly set nTweak,
CRollingBloomFilter is only used internally. Requiring every caller to
set nTweak is error-prone and redundant; better to have the class handle
that for you with a high-quality randomness source.
Additionally when clearing the filter it makes sense to change nTweak as
well to recover from a bad setting, e.g. due to insufficient randomness
at initialization, so the clear() method is replaced by a reset() method
that sets a new, random, nTweak value.
As suggested by Greg Maxwell-- unit test to make sure a block
with a double-spend in it doesn't pass validation if half of
the double-spend is already in the memory pool (so full-blown
transaction validation is skipped) when the block is received.
`bitcoind -X -noX` ends up, unintuitively, with `X` set.
(for all boolean options X)
This result is due to the odd two-pass processing of arguments. This
patch fixes this oddity and simplifies the code at the same time.
Accept strings containing decimal values, in addition to bare values.
Useful from JSON-RPC implementations where it's not possible to have
direct control over the text of numbers (e.g. where numbers are always
doubles), and it's still desired to send an exact value.
This would allow users to post JSON content with numbers encoded like
`{"value": "0.00000001"}` instead of `{"value": 0.00000001}` which some
php/python encoders wrap into 1e-8, or worse.
060b3d3 fixup: qt 5.5 snuck in another module that needs path hand-holding (Cory Fields)
ecd6a89 depends: make more qt flags explicit (Cory Fields)
ab67dd7 depends: bump to qt 5.5 (Cory Fields)
5189fe3 depends: split qt config options to separate lines (Jacob Welsh)
fe997df build: fix building against qt5.4/5.5 (Cory Fields)
ec249d4 util: use locale-independent parsing in ParseDouble (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
7650449 univalue: Avoid unnecessary roundtrip through double for numbers (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
e061e27 rpc: Make ValueFromAmount always return 8 decimals (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a794284 locking: add a quick example of GUARDED_BY (Cory Fields)
2b890dd locking: fix a few small issues uncovered by -Wthread-safety (Cory Fields)
cd27bba locking: teach Clang's -Wthread-safety to cope with our scoped lock macros (Cory Fields)
Handle the case where no chain tip is available, in InvalidChainFound(). This fixes a null pointer deference when running unit tests, if the genesis block or block validation code is broken.
This indicates that, eg, we have a public key for a key which may
be used as a pay-to-pubkey-hash. It generally means that we can
create a valid scriptSig except for missing private key(s) with
which to create signatures.
Since unspendable outputs can't be spent, there is no threshold at which it would be uneconomic to spend them.
This primarily targets transaction outputs with `OP_RETURN`.
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Initially based on:
commit 9cf0ae26350033d43d5dd3c95054c0d1b1641eda
Author: zathras-crypto <zathrasc@gmail.com>
Date: Wed Mar 25 02:04:02 2015 -0700
Changes:
- cherry-picked on top of bitcoin:master
- added RPC test for fundrawtransaction
JSON makes no distinction between numbers and reals, and our code
doesn't need to do so either.
This removes VREAL, as well as its specific post-processing in
`UniValue::write`. Non-monetary amounts do not need to be forcibly
formatted with 8 decimals, so the extra roundtrip was unnecessary
(and potentially loses precision).
This is the format that was always returned to JSON clients.
The difference was not noticed before, because VREAL values
are post-processed by univalue.
By implementing the functionality directly it breaks the dependency
of rpcserver on utilmoneystr. FormatMoney is now only used for debugging
purposes.
To test, port over the formatting tests from util_tests.cpp to
rpc_tests.cpp.
QT_NO_KEYWORDS prevents Qt from defining the `foreach`, `signals`,
`slots` and `emit` macros.
Avoid overlap between Qt macros and boost - for example #undef hackiness
in #6421.
When no `-rpcpassword` is specified, use a special 'cookie' file for
authentication. This file is generated with random content when the
daemon starts, and deleted when it exits. Read access to this file
controls who can access through RPC. By default this file is stored in
the data directory but it be overriden with `-rpccookiefile`.
This is similar to Tor CookieAuthentication: see
https://www.torproject.org/docs/tor-manual.html.en
Alternative to #6258. Like that pull, this allows running bitcoind
without any manual configuration. However, daemons should ideally never write to
their configuration files, so I prefer this solution.
Add a function `ParseFixedPoint` that parses numbers according
to the JSON number specification and returns a 64-bit integer.
Then this in `AmountFromValue`, rather than `ParseMoney`.
Also add lots of tests (thanks to @jonasschnelli for some of them).
Fixes issue #6297.
I've never liked the chain-specific exception to having to set a
password. It gives issues with #6388 which makes it valid to
set no password in every case (as it enables random cookie authentication).
This pull removes the flag, so that all chains are regarded the same.
It also removes the username==password test, which doesn't provide any
substantial extra security.
Prevents stomping on debug logs in datadirs that are locked by other
instances and lost parameter interaction messages that can get wiped by
ShrinkDebugFile().
The log is now opened explicitly and all emitted messages are buffered
until this open occurs. The version message and log cut have also been
moved to the earliest possible sensible location.
Four cases included:
* The CLTV operand type mismatches the tx locktime. In the script it is
1 (interpreted as block height), but in the tx is 500000000
(interpreted as date)
* The stack is empty when executing OP_CLTV
* The tx is final by having only one input with MAX_INT sequence number
* The operand for CLTV is negative (after OP_0 OP_1 OP_SUB)
No longer relevant after #5957. This hack existed because of another
hack where the numthreads parameter, on regtest, doubled as how many
blocks to generate.
CTransAction::IsEquivalentTo was introduced in #5881.
This functionality is only useful to the wallet, and should never have
been added to the primitive transaction type.
72b9452 When processing RPC commands during warmup phase, parse the request object before returning an error so that id value can be used in the response. (Forrest Voight)
request object before returning an error so that id value can
be used in the response.
Prior to this commit, RPC commands sent during Bitcoin's
warmup/startup phase were responded to with a JSON-RPC error
with an id of null, which violated the JSON-RPC 2.0 spec:
id: This member is REQUIRED. It MUST be the same as the value
of the id member in the Request Object. If there was an error
in detecting the id in the Request object (e.g. Parse
error/Invalid Request), it MUST be Null.
To determine the default for `-par`, the number of script verification
threads, use [boost:🧵:physical_concurrency()](http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#thread.thread_management.thread.physical_concurrency)
which counts only physical cores, not virtual cores.
Virtual cores are roughly a set of cached registers to avoid context
switches while threading, they cannot actually perform work, so spawning
a verification thread for them could even reduce efficiency and will put
undue load on the system.
Should fix issue #6358, as well as some other reported system overload
issues, especially on Intel processors.
The function was only introduced in boost 1.56, so provide a utility
function `GetNumCores` to fall back for older Boost versions.
4f40716 test: Move reindex test to standard tests (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
36c97b4 Bugfix: Don't check the genesis block header before accepting it (Jorge Timón)
ffd75ad Enable CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY as a standard script verify flag (Peter Todd)
bc60b2b Replace NOP2 with CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY (BIP65) (Peter Todd)
48e9c57 Move LOCKTIME_THRESHOLD to src/script/script.h (Peter Todd)
99088d6 Make CScriptNum() take nMaxNumSize as an argument (Peter Todd)
b932953 Hardcoded seeds update June 2015 (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
884454a contrib: Add port parsing to makeseeds.py (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
ccd4369 contrib: Improvements to hardcoded seeds scripts (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
New, undocumented-on-purpose -mocktime=timestamp command-line
argument to startup with mocktime set. Needed because
time-related blockchain sanity checks are done on startup, before a
test has a chance to make a setmocktime RPC call.
And changed the setmocktime RPC call so calling it will not result in
currently connected peers being disconnected due to inactivity timeouts.
Transactions that fail CLTV verification will be rejected from the
mempool, making it easy to test the feature. However blocks containing
"invalid" CLTV-using transactions will still be accepted; this is *not*
the soft-fork required to actually enable CLTV for production use.
<nLockTime> CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY -> <nLockTime>
Fails if tx.nLockTime < nLockTime, allowing the funds in a txout to be
locked until some block height or block time in the future is reached.
Only the logic and unittests are implemented; this commit does not have
any actual soft-fork logic in it.
Thanks to Pieter Wuille for rebase.
Credit goes to Gregory Maxwell for the suggestion of comparing the
argument against the transaction nLockTime rather than the current
time/blockheight directly.
Now that the off-by-one error w/nLockTime txs issue has been fixed by
87550eef (75a4d512 in the 0.11 branch) we can make the anti-fee-sniping
protection create transactions with nLockTime set such that they're only
valid in the next block, rather than an earlier block.
There was also a concern about poor propagation, however testing with
transactions with nLockTime = GetAdjustedTime()+1 as a proxy for
nLockTime propagation, as well as a few transactions sent the moment
blocks were received, has turned up no detectable issues with
propagation. If you have a block at a given height you certainly have at
least one peer with that block who will accept the transaction. That
peer will certainly have other peers who will accept it, and soon
essentially the whole network has the transaction. In particular, if a
node recives a transaction that it rejects due to the tx being
non-final, it will be accepted again later as it winds its way around
the network.
When responding to a getblocks message, only return inv's as
long as we HAVE_DATA for blocks in the chain, and only for blocks
that we aren't likely to delete in the near future.
- fixes#3136
- the problem is related to Boost path and a static initialized internal
pointer
- using a std::string in CDBEnv::EnvShutdown() prevents the problem
- this removes the boost::filesystem::path path field from CDBEnv
26a639e remove using namespace std from addrman.cpp (Philip Kaufmann)
40c592a make CAddrMan::size() return the correct type of size_t (Philip Kaufmann)
For leveldb "An iterator operates on a snapshot of the database taken
when the iterator is created". This means that it is unnecessary to
lock out other threads while computing statistics, and neither to hold
cs_main for the whole time. Let the thread run free.
- rpcwallet: No need to lock twice here
- openssl: Clang doesn't understand selective lock/unlock here. Ignore it.
- CNode: Fix a legitimate (though very unlikely) locking bug.
This allows us to use function/variable/class attributes to specify locking
requisites, allowing problems to be detected during static analysis.
This works perfectly with newer Clang versions (tested with 3.3-3.7). For older
versions (tested 3.2), it compiles fine but spews lots of false-positives.
Make it possible to opt-out of the centralized alert system by providing
an option `-noalerts` or `-alerts=0`. The default remains unchanged.
This is a gentler form of #6260, in which I went a bit overboard by
removing the alert system completely.
I intend to add this to the GUI options in another pull after this.
This sets aside a number of connection slots for whitelisted peers,
useful for ensuring your local users and miners can always get in,
even if your limit on inbound connections has already been reached.
Chance "getbalance *" not to use IsTrusted. The method and result
now match the "getbalance <specific-account>" behavior. In
particular, "getbalance * 0" now works.
Also fixed a comment -- GetGalance has required 1 confirmation
for many years, and the default "getbalance *" behavior matches
that.
Simplify and make the code in AppInit2 more clear.
This provides a straightforward flow, gets rid of .count() (which makes
it possible to override an earlier provided proxy option to nothing), as
well as comments the different cases.
Univalue's parsing of \u escape sequences did not handle NUL characters
correctly. They were, effectively, dropped. The extended test-case
fails with the old code, and is fixed with this patch.
Do not translate -help-debug options, Many technical terms, and
only a very small audience, so is unnecessary stress to translators.
Brings the code up to date with translation string policy in
`doc/translation_strings_policy.md`.
Also remove no-longer-relevant "In this mode -genproclimit controls how
many blocks are generated immediately." (as of #5957) from regtest help.
7d8ffac Changes necessary now that zero values accepted in AmountFromValue (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a04bdef Get rid of fPlus argument to FormatMoney (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4b4b9a8 Don't go through double in AmountFromValue and ValueFromAmount (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
The partition checking code was using chainActive timestamps
to detect partitioning; with headers-first syncing, it should use
(and with this pull request, does use) pIndexBestHeader timestamps.
Fixes issue #6251
- Add an accept test for zero amounts, and a reject test for negative
amounts
- Remove ugly hack in `settxfee` that is no longer necessary
- Do explicit zero checks in wallet RPC functions
- Don't add a check for zero amounts in `createrawtransaction` - this
could be seen as a feature
My prime gripe with JSON spirit was that monetary values still had to be
converted from and to floating point which can cause deviations (see #3759
and https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/22716/bitcoind-sendfrom-round-amount-error).
As UniValue stores internal values as strings, this is no longer
necessary. This avoids risky double-to-integer and integer-to-double
conversions completely, and results in more elegant code to boot.
This prevents an edge case where a block downloaded and pruned
in-between successive calls to FindNextBlocksToDownload could
cause the block to be unnecessarily re-requested.
Strict parsing functions for other numeric types.
- ParseInt64 analogous to ParseInt32, but for 64-bit values.
- ParseDouble for doubles.
- Make all three Parse* functions more strict (e.g. reject whitespace on
the inside)
Also add tests.
- implement find_value() function for UniValue
- replace all Array/Value/Object types with UniValues, remove JSON Spirit to UniValue wrapper
- remove JSON Spirit sources
In some corner cases, it may be possible for recent blocks to end up in
the same block file as much older blocks. Previously, the pruning code
would stop looking for files to remove upon first encountering a file
containing a block that cannot be pruned, now it will keep looking for
candidate files until the target is met and all other criteria are
satisfied.
This can result in a noncontiguous set of block files (by number) on
disk, which is fine except for during some reindex corner cases, so
make reindex preparation smarter such that we keep the data we can
actually use and throw away the rest. This allows pruning to work
correctly while downloading any blocks needed during the reindex.
Change `read_string` to fail when not the entire input has been
consumed. This avoids unexpected, even dangerous behavior (fixes#6223).
The new JSON parser adapted in #6121 also solves this problem so in
master this is a temporary fix, but should be backported to older releases.
Also adds tests for the new behavior.
If/when CTransaction::CURRENT_VERSION is incremented, this will break CChainParams and the miner tests. This fix sets the transaction version explicitly where we depend on the hash value (genesis block, proof of work checks).
aa41bc8 Update help message to match the #4219 change (lpescher)
f60bb5e Update documentation to match the #4219 change (lpescher)
cb87386 Make command line option to show all debugging consistent with similar options (lpescher)
Under some circumstances it is possible for there to be a significant,
discontinuous jump in a node's clock value. On mining nodes, this can
result in block templates which are no longer valid due to time-based
nLockTime constraints. UpdateTime() is modified so that it will never
decrease a block's nLockTime, thereby preventing such invalidations.
Previously due to an off-by-one error the wallet ignored
nLockTime-by-height transactions that would be valid in the next block
even though they are accepted into the mempool. The transactions
wouldn't show up until confirmed, nor would they be included in the
unconfirmed balance. Similar to the mempool behavior fix in 665bdd3b,
the wallet code was calling IsFinalTx() directly without taking into
account the fact that doing so tells you if the transaction could have
been mined in the *current* block, rather than the next block.
To fix this we strip IsFinalTx() of non-consensus-critical
functionality, removing the default arguments, and add CheckFinalTx() to
check if a transaction will be final in the next block.
Fix two CSubNet constructor problems:
- The use of `/x` where 8 does not divide x was broken, due to a
bit-order issue
- The use of e.g. `1.2.3.4/24` where the netmasked bits in the network
are not 0 was broken. Fix this by explicitly normalizing the netwok
according to the bitmask.
Also add tests for these cases.
Fixes#6179. Thanks to @jonasschnelli for reporting and initial fix.
Don't clear `stopRequested` and `stopWhenEmpty` at the top of
`serviceQueue`, as this results in a race condition: on systems under
heavy load, some of the threads only get scheduled on the CPU when the
other threads have already finished their work. This causes the flags to
be cleared post-hoc and thus those threads to wait forever.
The potential drawback of this change is that the scheduler cannot be
restarted after being stopped (an explicit reset would be needed), but
we don't use this functionality anyway.
Most people expect a value of 1 to enable all for command line arguments.
However to do this for the -debug option you must type "-debug=".
This has been changed to allow "-debug=1" as well as "-debug=" to
enable all debug logging
To protect privacy, do not use UPNP when a proxy is set. The user may
still specify -listen=1 to listen locally (for a hidden service), so
don't rely on this happening through -listen.
Fixes#2927.
On a busy or slow system, the CScheduler unit test could fail because it
assumed all threads would be done after a couple of milliseconds.
Replace the hard-coded sleep with CScheduler stop() method that
will cleanly exit the servicing threads when all tasks are completely
finished.
Previously this was cleared only after UnlinkPrunedFiles, but it should really be cleared after FindFilesToPrune, regardless of whether there are any files to be pruned.
86a5f4b Relocate calls to CheckDiskSpace (Alex Morcos)
67708ac Write block index more frequently than cache flushes (Pieter Wuille)
b3ed423 Cache tweak and logging improvements (Pieter Wuille)
fc684ad Use accurate memory for flushing decisions (Pieter Wuille)
046392d Keep track of memory usage in CCoinsViewCache (Pieter Wuille)
540629c Add memusage.h (Pieter Wuille)
8f0947b Increase timeouts in pruning.py and modify warning language. (Alex Morcos)
b89f307 Fix incorrect variable name in FindFilesToPrune (Suhas Daftuar)
This assertion will occur any time that the client quits without
shutting down properly due to an error condition. As the user will
report this error instead of the error that was the root cause, it is
better to remove it.
Create a monitoring task that counts how many blocks have been found in the last four hours.
If very few or too many have been found, an alert is triggered.
"Very few" and "too many" are set based on a false positive rate of once every fifty years of constant running with constant hashing power, which works out to getting 5 or fewer or 48 or more blocks in four hours (instead of the average of 24).
Only one alert per day is triggered, so if you get disconnected from the network (or are being Sybil'ed) -alertnotify will be triggered after 3.5 hours but you won't get another -alertnotify for 24 hours.
Tested with a new unit test and by running on the main network with -debug=partitioncheck
Run test/test_bitcoin --log_level=message to see the alert messages:
WARNING: check your network connection, 3 blocks received in the last 4 hours (24 expected)
WARNING: abnormally high number of blocks generated, 60 blocks received in the last 4 hours (24 expected)
The -debug=partitioncheck debug.log messages look like:
ThreadPartitionCheck : Found 22 blocks in the last 4 hours
ThreadPartitionCheck : likelihood: 0.0777702
