Changelog-Added: New option `--important-plugin` loads a plugin is so important that if it dies, `lightningd` will exit rather than continue. You can still `--disable-plugin` it, however, which trumps `--important-plugin` and it will not be started at all.
This is what I expected from plugin_kill, and now all the callers do the
equivalent anywat, it's easy.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This means we now clean up options in startup plugins (that was only
done by dynamic code!), and now they both share the 60 second timeout
instead of 20 seconds for dynamic.
For the dynamic case though, it's 60 seconds to both complete
getmanifest and init, which seems fair.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This will let us unify the startup and runtime-started infrastructure.
Note that there are two kinds of notifications:
1. Starting a single plugin (i.e. `plugin start`)
2. Starting multiple plugins (i.e. `plugin rescan` or `plugin startdir`).
In the latter case, we want the command to complete only once *all*
the plugins are dead/finished.
We also call plugin_kill() in all cases, and correctly return afterwards
(it matters once we use the same paths for dynamic plugins, which don't
cause a fatal error if they don't startup).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The symptom (under heavy load and valgrind) in test_plugin_command:
lightningd: common/json_stream.c:237: json_stream_output_: Assertion `!js->reader' failed.
This is because we try to call `getmanifest` again on `pay` which has not yet
responded to init.
The minimal fix for this is to keep proper state, so we can tell the
difference between "not yet called getmanifest" and "not yet finished
init".
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
As a separated commit because it was pre-existent (changelog + xfail test).
This also fix a logical problem in lightningd/plugin_control: we were
assuming a plugin started with 'plugin start' but which did not comport
a 'dynamic' entry in its manifest to be dynamic, though it should have
been treated as static.
Changelog-fixed: plugins: Dynamic C plugins can now be managed when lightningd is up
And make a function for the 'rescan' subcommand so that we are
consistent and have only subcommand logic in the main function,
which return command_still_pending() in any case (but 'stop').
patched-by: @rustyrussell
This does the same as for the 'start' subcommand for the 'startdir'
one.
Note that we could fail to start the last plugin of a directory, but
have succesfully started the precedent plugins. This will make us return
an error to the user while some of the plugins have been started, but we
still don't end up in a transient state with
half-configured-half-errored plugins.
This remove the reliance on startup plugins' function "plugin_start" in
order to use a distinct runtime path for a dynamically started plugin,
which will allow startup plugins' code to be (almost) agnostic of
dynamic plugins.
This also makes the 'start' subcommand return only if the plugin is
either started, or killed : no weird middle state where the plugin
mishbehaving could crash lightningd.
This adds a new pair of files : lightningd/plugin_control, along with a new RPC
command : 'plugin'. This command can be used to manage plugins without restarting lightningd:
lightning-cli plugin start helloworld.py
lightning-cli plugin stop helloworld.py
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