Ansible works with Python 2.6 and 2.7, but Buildbot requires 2.7. Both have
at least preliminary Python 3 support, but until our RPC tests are migrated to
Python 3, we need to use Python 2 for testing, and so this requirement stands.
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.
When using std::thread in place of boost::thread, letting the threads destruct
results in a std::terminate. According to the docs, the same thing should be
be happening in later boost versions:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#thread.thread_management.thread.destructor
I'm unsure why this hasn't blown up already, but explicitly detaching can't
hurt.
Zcash: cherry-picked from commit d3773ca9aeb0d2f12dc0c5a0726778050c8cb455
This fixes#2554 (zcash-cli stop during getblocktemplate long poll
causes 'Assertion `!pthread_mutex_unlock(&m)' failed.')
This continues/fixes #6719.
`event_base_loopbreak` was not doing what I expected it to, at least in
libevent 2.0.21.
What I expected was that it sets a timeout, given that no other pending
events it would exit in N seconds. However, what it does was delay the
event loop exit with 10 seconds, even if nothing is pending.
Solve it in a different way: give the event loop thread time to exit
out of itself, and if it doesn't, send loopbreak.
This speeds up the RPC tests a lot, each exit incurred a 10 second
overhead, with this change there should be no shutdown overhead in the
common case and up to two seconds if the event loop is blocking.
As a bonus this breaks dependency on boost::thread_group, as the HTTP
server minds its own offspring.
Zcash: cherry-picked from commit a264c32e3321ae909ca59cb8ce8bf5d812dbc4e1
