These are available in sandboxes without access to files or
devices. Also [they are safer and more straightforward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy-supplying_system_calls)
to use than `/dev/urandom` as reading from a file has quite a few edge
cases:
- Linux: `getrandom(buf, buflen, 0)`. [getrandom(2)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html)
was introduced in version 3.17 of the Linux kernel.
- OpenBSD: `getentropy(buf, buflen)`. The [getentropy(2)](http://man.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man2/getentropy.2)
function appeared in OpenBSD 5.6.
- FreeBSD and NetBSD: `sysctl(KERN_ARND)`. Not sure when this was added
but it has existed for quite a while.
Alternatives:
- Linux has sysctl `CTL_KERN` / `KERN_RANDOM` / `RANDOM_UUID`
which gives 16 bytes of randomness. This may be available
on older kernels, however [sysctl is deprecated on Linux](https://lwn.net/Articles/605392/)
and even removed in some distros so we shouldn't use it.
Add tests for `GetOSRand()`:
- Test that no error happens (otherwise `RandFailure()` which aborts)
- Test that all 32 bytes are overwritten (initialize with zeros, try multiple times)
Discussion:
- When to use these? Currently they are always used when available.
Another option would be to use them only when `/dev/urandom` is not
available. But this would mean these code paths receive less testing,
and I'm not sure there is any reason to prefer `/dev/urandom`.
Closes: #9676
Minimum boost version was bumped to 1.47.0 in #8920, which
means the configure step won't even pass with older boost.
This version has boost filesystem v3, which means the
(crappy) fallbacks for older versions can go.
4b189c1 Change bumpfee result value from 'oldfee' to 'origfee'. (Alex Morcos)
0c0c63f Introduce WALLET_INCREMENTAL_RELAY_FEE (Alex Morcos)
e8021ec Use CWallet::GetMinimumFee in bumpfee (Alex Morcos)
ae9719a Refactor GetMinimumFee to give option of providing targetFee (Alex Morcos)
fe8e8ef [rpc] Add incremental relay fee to getnetworkinfo (Alex Morcos)
6b331e6 Fix to have miner test aware of new separate block min tx fee (Alex Morcos)
de6400d Fix missing use of dustRelayFee (Alex Morcos)
5b15870 Use incrementalRelayFee for BIP 125 replacement (Alex Morcos)
0c50909 testcases: explicitly specify transaction version 1 (John Newbery)
b7e144b Add test cases to test new bitcoin-tx functionality (jnewbery)
61a1534 Add all transaction output types to bitcoin-tx. (jnewbery)
1814b08 add p2sh and segwit options to bitcoin-tx outscript command (Stanislas Marion)
05a55a6 Added EVENT_CFLAGS to test makefile to explicitly include libevent headers. (Karl-Johan Alm)
280a559 Added some simple tests for the RAII-style events. (Karl-Johan Alm)
7f7f102 Switched bitcoin-cli.cpp to use RAII unique pointers with deleters. (Karl-Johan Alm)
e5534d2 Added std::unique_ptr<> wrappers with deleters for libevent modules. (Karl-Johan Alm)
Fee estimation can just check its own mapMemPoolTxs to determine the same information. Note that now fee estimation for block processing must happen before those transactions are removed, but this shoudl be a speedup.
We were marking coins FRESH before being sure they were not overwriting dirty undo data. This condition was never reached in existing code because undo data was always flushed before UpdateCoins was called with new transactions, but could have been exposed in an otherwise safe refactor.
Clarify in the comments the assumptions made in ModifyNewCoins.
Add ability to undo transactions to UpdateCoins unit test.
Thanks to Russ Yanofsky for suggestion on how to make logic clearer and fixing up the ccoins_modify_new test cases.
This commit add testcases to test the following functions in bitcoin-tx:
- add a pay to non-standard script output
- add a P2SH output
- add a P2WSH output
- add a P2WSH wrapped in a P2SH output
- add a pay to pub key output
- add a P2WPKH output
- add a P2WPKH wrapped in a P2SH output
- add a bare multisig output
- add a multisig in P2SH output
- add a multisig in a P2WSH output
- add a multisig in a P2WSH wrapped in as P2SH output
