I don't understand why `-help-debug` would be useful without requesting
the help, and I've made this particular mistake one time too many.
(ok, so apparently the original reason that -help-debug is an option is
to show debug options in the GUI option overview? that seems very
unlikely to ever be used, if someone wants to add a way to show debug
options in the GUI it'd be better to have a check box)
23db9546c1 utils: run commands using utf-8 string on Windows (Chun Kuan Lee)
Pull request description:
Use unicode string to call commans
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bb6ca65f98 gui: get special folder in unicode (Chun Kuan Lee)
1c5d225853 Drop boost::scoped_array (Chun Kuan Lee)
Pull request description:
Drop boost::scoped_array and simplify the code.
`TCHAR` should be defined as `wchar_t` if `UNICODE` is defined. So we can use `.toStdWString().c_str()` to get wchar_t C-style string.
Fix#13819
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ed2332aeff test: Add test for config file parsing errors (MarcoFalke)
a66c0f78a9 util: Report parse errors in configuration file (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Pull request description:
Report errors while parsing the configuration file, instead of silently ignoring them.
$ src/bitcoind -regtest
Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 22: nodebuglogfile, if you intended to specify a negated option, use nodebuglogfile=1 instead
$ src/bitcoind -regtest
Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 22: sdafsdfafs
$ src/bitcoind -regtest
Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 24: -nodebuglogfile=1, options in the configuration file must be specified without leading -
(inspired by https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/14100#issuecomment-417264823)
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Report errors while parsing the configuration file, instead of silently
ignoring them.
$ src/bitcoind -regtest
Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 22: nodebuglogfile, if you intended to specify a negated option, use nodebuglogfile=1 instead
$ src/bitcoind -regtest
Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 22: sdafsdfafs
$ src/bitcoind -regtest
Error reading configuration file: parse error on line 24: -nodebuglogfile=1, options in the configuration file must be specified without leading -
boost::interprocess::file_lock cannot open the files that contain characters which cannot be parsed by the user's code page on Windows.
This commit add a new class to handle those specific file for Windows.
3fc20632a3 qt: Set BLOCK_CHAIN_SIZE = 220 (DrahtBot)
2b6a2f4a28 Regenerate manpages (DrahtBot)
eb7daf4d60 Update copyright headers to 2018 (DrahtBot)
Pull request description:
Some trivial maintenance to avoid having to do it again after the 0.17 branch off.
(The scripts to do this are in `./contrib/`)
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This commit contains 2 refactors.
1. mark "const" on ArgsManager::GetHelpMessage and IsArgKnown.
2. remove unused "error" argument from ArgsManager::IsArgKnown.
Firstly, I mark "const" on where it is possible to. It is mentioned
before (e.g. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13190#pullrequestreview-118823133).
And about 2nd change, ArgsManager::IsArgKnown was added at commit #4f8704d which was
merged at PR #13112. But from its beggining, "error" argument never be used.
I think it should be refactored.
Options that are not available (but known in the source code) will
cause an error if they are specified.
Make these options "available" by adding them to the hidden options
category to prevent conf files from failing when shared between binaries
that have different options available.
If an unknown option is given via either the command line args or
the conf file, throw an error and exit
Update tests for ArgsManager knowing args
Ignore unknown options in the config file for bitcoin-cli
Fix tests and bitcoin-cli to match actual options used
Instead of a single map with the category and name as the key,
make m_available_args contain maps. The key will be the category and
the value is a map which actually contains the arguments for that
category. The nested map's key is the argument name, while the value
is a struct that contains the help text and whether the argument is
a debug only argument.
Many options are extremely technical, and refer internals, making it
difficult to translate usefully. This came up in discussion of e.g.
#10949. If a message is not understood by translators (which are
typically end-users, not developers) they'll either translate it
literally, making it harder to understand instead of easier, with the
added drawback of the user no longer being able to google it.
Also the translation was only working for bitcoin-qt as with
the console programs, there is no translation backend. So it was
injecting never-used translation messages for bitcoin-cli, -tx.
For these reasons, stop translating options help completely. This should
not affect the output **in any way** except for bitcoin-qt when a
non-English language is configured in the locale.
This implements #10962.
25b7ab9 doc: Add release notes for -includeconf (Karl-Johan Alm)
0f0badd test: Test includeconf parameter. (Karl-Johan Alm)
629ff8c -includeconf=<path> support in config handler, for including external configuration files (Karl-Johan Alm)
Pull request description:
Fixes: #10071.
Done:
- adds `-includeconf=<path>`, where `<path>` is relative to `datadir` or to the path of the file being read, if in a file
- protects against circular includes
- updates help docs
~~~Thoughts:~~~
- ~~~I am not sure how to test this in a neat manner. Feedback on this would be nice. Will dig/think though.~~~
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Add logging and error handling inside, and outside of FileCommit.
Functions such as fsync, fdatasync will return error in case of hardware
I/O errors, and ignoring this means it can silently continue through
data corruption. (c.f.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/752063/12b232ab5039efbe/)
When network-specific options such as -addnode, -connect, etc are
specified in the default section of the config file, but that setting is
ignored due to testnet or regtest being in use, and it is not overridden
by either a command line option or a setting in the [regtest] or [test]
section of the config file, a warning is added to the log, eg:
Warning: Config setting for -connect only applied on regtest network when in [regtest] section.
When specified in bitcoin.conf without using the [regtest] or [test]
section header, or a "regtest." or "test." prefix, the "addnode",
"connect", "port", "bind", "rpcport", "rpcbind", and "wallet" settings
will only be applied when running on mainnet.
When a -nofoo option is seen, instead of adding it to a separate
set of negated args, set the arg as being an empty vector of strings.
This changes the behaviour in some ways:
- -nofoo=0 still sets foo=1 but no longer treats it as a negated arg
- -nofoo=1 -foo=2 has GetArgs() return [2] rather than [2,0]
- "foo=2 \n -nofoo=1" in a config file no longer returns [2,0], just [0]
- GetArgs returns an empty vector for negated args
Although no compiler appears to complain about it, these are
not valid for c++11.
(http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initialization says they're c++20)
The structure is defined as:
struct sched_param {
int sched_priority;
};
So passing 0 for the first field has the same effect.
Nowhere in the man page of `pthread_setschedparam` it is mentioned that
`0` is a valid value. The example uses `pthread_self()`, so should we.
(noticed by Anthony Towns)
77a733a99 [tests] Add additional unit tests for -nofoo edge cases (Anthony Towns)
af173c2be [tests] Check GetChainName works with config entries (Anthony Towns)
fa27f1c23 [tests] Add unit tests for ReadConfigStream (Anthony Towns)
087c5d204 ReadConfigStream: assume the stream is good (Anthony Towns)
6d5815aad Separate out ReadConfigStream from ReadConfigFile (Anthony Towns)
834d30341 [tests] Add unit tests for GetChainName (Anthony Towns)
11b6b5b86 Move ChainNameFromCommandLine into ArgsManager and rename to GetChainName (Anthony Towns)
Pull request description:
This does a bit of refactoring of the configuration handling code in order to add additional tests to make adding support for [test]/[regtest] sections in the config file in #11862 easier. Should not cause any behaviour changes.
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d54874d Set SCHED_BATCH priority on the loadblk thread. (Evan Klitzke)
Pull request description:
Today I came across #10271, and while reading the discussion #6358 was linked to. Linux systems have a `SCHED_BATCH` scheduler priority that is useful for threads like loadblk. You can find the full details at [sched(7)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/sched.7.html), but I'll quote the relevant part of the man page below:
> ...this policy will cause the scheduler to always assume that the thread is
CPU-intensive. Consequently, the scheduler will apply a small scheduling penalty
with respect to wakeup behavior, so that this thread is mildly disfavored in
scheduling decisions.
>
> This policy is useful for workloads that are noninteractive, but do not want to
lower their nice value, and for workloads that want a deterministic scheduling
policy without interactivity causing extra preemptions (between the workload's
tasks).
I think this change is useful independently of #10271 and irrespective of whether that change is merged. Under normal operation the loadblk thread will just import `mempool.dat`. However, if Bitcoin is started with `-reindex` or `-reindex-chainstate` this thread will use a great deal of CPU while it rebuilds the chainstate database (and the block database in the case of `-reindex`). By setting `SCHED_BATCH` this thread is less likely to interfere with interactive tasks (e.g. the user's web browser, text editor, etc.).
I'm leaving the nice value unchanged (which also affects scheduling decisions) because I think that's better set by the user. Likewise I'm not using [ioprio_set(2)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioprio_set.2.html) because it can cause the thread to become completely I/O starved (and knowledgeable users can use `ionice(1)` anyway).
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This commit adds tracking for negated arguments. This change will be used in a
future commit that allows disabling the debug.log file using -nodebuglogfile.
a192636 -blocksdir: keep blockindex leveldb database in datadir (Jonas Schnelli)
f38e4fd QA: Add -blocksdir test (Jonas Schnelli)
386a6b6 Allow to optional specify the directory for the blocks storage (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Since the actual block files taking up more and more space, it may be desirable to have them stored in a different location then the data directory (use case: SSD for chainstate, etc., HD for blocks).
This PR adds a `-blocksdir` option that allows one to keep the blockfiles and the blockindex external from the data directory (instead of creating symlinks).
I fist had an option to keep the blockindex within the datadir, but seems to make no sense since accessing the index will (always) lead to access (r/w) the block files.
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While reading another PR I saw a mention of #6358. The use case for
SCHED_BATCH is to hint to the kernel that the thread is running a
non-interactive workload that consumes a lot of CPU time. This is
helpful on desktop machines where the loadblk thread can interfere with
interactive applications. More details can be found in the sched(7) man
page.
8674e74 Provide relevant error message if datadir is not writable. (murrayn)
Pull request description:
If the --datadir exists, but is not writable, the current error message on startup is 'Cannot obtain a lock on data directory foo. Bitcoin Core is probably already running.' This is misleading.
I believe this PR addresses #11668, although the issue is not Windows-specific.
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