We haven't touched the readme for quite some time, just randomly added to it,
and it's starting to show. This is my attempt at cleaning it up a bit (more to
come):
- No longer discourage users from running on mainnet, we're way beyond that
point.
- No longer instruct users to build from source, when we have real binary
releases, on the PPA, the releases page and the docker images.
- Cut down on the docker specific instructions, they are taking a lot of room
when only a minority will likely run them that way
- Generally make the README more of a dispatch for more in-depth
documentation rather than trying to address everything right on the
front-page.
- Add a bit of context about running on top of a pruned node
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Header from folded patch 'fixup!_readme__first_pass_at_homogenizing_the_readme_a_bit.patch':
fixup! readme: First pass at homogenizing the readme a bit
We ignored this before, which meant that the DEVELOPER-mode check that we
delete the correct record didn't check that it wasn't already deleted.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
`close` takes two optional arguments: `force` and `timeout`.
`timeout` doesn't timeout the close (there's no way to do that), just
the JSON call. `force` (default `false`) if set, means we unilaterally
close at the timeout, instead of just failing.
Timing out JSON calls is generally deprecated: that's the job of the
client. And the semantics of this are confusing, even to me! A
better API is a timeout which, if non-zero, is the time at which we
give up and unilaterally close.
The transition code is awkward, but we'll manage for the three
releases until we can remove it.
The new defaults are to unilaterally close after 48 hours.
Fixes: #2791
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We're about to change the API, so this makes the tests still work
across the transition (and, as a bonus, tests our backwards compat
shim).
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This was the initial issue that was addressed by #2756 and now we just test
that all is working as expected.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
If we were to just insert filtered blocks in the range that we will scan later
we'd be hitting the uniqueness constraints later.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Instead of allowing all calls to `getfilteredblock` to be scheduled on the
`bitcoind` queue right away we instead add them in a separate queue, and
process a single call at a time. This limits the concurrency and avoids
thrashing `bitcoind`. At the same time we dispatch incoming results back to
all calls that were queued for that particular blockheight, reducing the
overall number of calls and an increase in overall speed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
We will be calling the callback out of order once we fan out the results of a
single lookip to multiple calls, so being sure that everything is allocated
ahead of time is necessary.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
Since we now check all P2WSH outputs in a block, this is getting quite a
common occurence, so logging just produces lots of noise.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
This will eventually replace the multi-step `getblockhash` + `getblock` +
`gettxout` mechanism, and return entire filtered blocks which can be added to
the DB, and represent the full set of P2WSH UTXOs.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
This is just the test that we use to verify block backfilling below the wallet
birth height is working correctly.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
@renepickhardt has a shell script we broke. While we still produce
perfectly valid JSON, we should not gratuitously change tool output.
Plus, I prefer the missing space before the ':'.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
The helpme plugin is more comprensive, but this at least connects to a
few random nodes, and doesn't require python libraries in path or anything.
I selected the nodes from helpme.py, eliminating ones I couldn't reach.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This test is spawning 100 nodes concurrently, which is a lot even when not
running with `valgrind`, especially when executing tests in parallel.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
This was causing `--help` to fail if we already had a `lightningd` running
with the same `--lightning-dir`.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
This is a followup to #2892. Since we now attempt to lock the PID file before
starting plugins we need to make sure that we actually use a unique lightning
directory for anything that attempts to call `--help`. If not we may be
conflicting with a `lightningd` that is running against that directory.
Notice that this still means that we will be unable to call `--help` on
`lightningd` if we have a running instance, but isolation in this case is
good, otherwise we'd be reading the default config anyway.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
We recently noticed that the way we unpack the call arguments for hooks and
notifications in pylightning breaks pretty quickly once you start changing the
hook and notification params. If you add params they will not get mapped
correctly causing the plugin to error out.
This can be fixed by adding a `VAR_KEYWORD` argument to the calbacks, i.e., by
adding a single `**kwargs` argument at the end of the signature. This commit
adds a check that such a catch-all argument exists, and emits a warning if it
doesn't.
It also fixes up the plugins that we ship ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
1. Now checking the pid file really does precede touching the db and
starting plugins, which is far safer.
2. Crashlog is now activated just after daemon parent release, and just
before the main loop, which means no "crash" on startup if we call fatal().
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Dumb programs which have a --daemon option call fork() early. This is
terrible UX since startup errors get lost: the program exits with
"success" immediately then you discover via the logs that it didn't
start at all.
However, forking late introduced a heap of problems with changing
pids. Instead, fork early but keep stderr and the parent around: if
we fail early on, the parent fails with us. We release our parent
with an explicit action just before the main loop.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We create our children then fork, so we're not a parent. I noticed this
because 'lightning-cli stop' takes a long time: this is because it tries to
wait for them and they don't respond.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Since we are walking the entire allocation tree anyway, and access the tal
metadata anyway, we can just as well also track the size of the memory
allocations to simplify debugging of memory use.
Signed-off-by: Christian Decker <decker.christian@gmail.com>
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