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
This makes sure that the event loop eventually terminates, even if an
event (like an open timeout, or a hanging connection) happens to be
holding it up.
Zcash: cherry-picked from commit ec908d5f7aa9ad7e3487018e06a24cb6449cc58b
Add a WaitExit() call to http's WorkQueue to make it delete the work
queue only when all worker threads stopped.
This fixes a problem that was reproducable by pressing Ctrl-C during
AppInit2:
```
/usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/condition_variable_fwd.hpp:81: boost::condition_variable::~condition_variable(): Assertion `!ret' failed.
/usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/mutex.hpp:108: boost::mutex::~mutex(): Assertion `!posix::pthread_mutex_destroy(&m)' failed.
```
I was assuming that `threadGroup->join_all();` would always have been
called when entering the Shutdown(). However this is not the case in
bitcoind's AppInit2-non-zero-exit case "was left out intentionally
here".
Zcash: cherry-picked from commit de9de2de361ab1355b976f17371d73e36fe3bf56
Fixes#2334 and #2214.
Shutting down the HTTP server currently breaks off all current requests.
This can create a race condition with RPC `stop` command, where the calling
process never receives confirmation.
This change removes the listening sockets on shutdown so that no new
requests can come in, but no longer breaks off requests in progress.
Meant to fix bitcoin/#6717.
Zcash: cherry-picked from commit 5e0c22135600fe36811da3b78216efc61ba765fb
Corrections are to the median block times, which were generated by subtracting
CBlockIndex::nMedianTimeSpan / 2 from the block height and then multiplying by
the target spacing. GetMedianTimePast() takes an array sorted by std::sort() and
returns element CBlockIndex::nMedianTimeSpan / 2, meaning that if
CBlockIndex::nMedianTimeSpan is odd (which it is), there is an out-by-one error
in the subtraction.
Fixes#2480 where missing map entry would cause a segfault.
`wtxHeight = mapBlockIndex[wtx.hashBlock]->nHeight;` results in undefined behaviour when the block hash is not present in the map, returning a null value which is dereferenced via `->nHeight`. This error is triggered by a zero-conf wallet transaction which has not been mined yet. As discussed in #2480, on some systems there is a segfault whilst on others there is a silent exit. This makes it difficult to write a test, but the fix has been tested empirically to confirm an exception is thrown. This PR fixes the segfault and complements #2525 which prevents a user from sending from a zaddr with minconf 0.
Ansible playbook for configuring CI workers
The playbook in this PR can be used for configuring common Unix variants to run a Buildbot worker for the Zcash CI, starting from a fresh install (or a VM template provided by a hosting service).
Latent workers are not usually created on the instance type that will be used,
so memory and CPU info collected at AMI creation will likely be inaccurate.
