Bugfix: If genproclimit is omitted to RPC setgenerate, don't change it; also show correct default in getmininginfo

src/init.cpp

@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode mode)
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-debug=<category>", strprintf(_("Output debugging information (default: %u, supplying <category> is optional)"), 0) + ". " +
         _("If <category> is not supplied or if <category> = 1, output all debugging information.") + _("<category> can be:") + " " + debugCategories + ".");
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-gen", strprintf(_("Generate coins (default: %u)"), 0));
-    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-genproclimit=<n>", strprintf(_("Set the number of threads for coin generation if enabled (-1 = all cores, default: %d)"), 1));
+    strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-genproclimit=<n>", strprintf(_("Set the number of threads for coin generation if enabled (-1 = all cores, default: %d)"), DEFAULT_GENERATE_THREADS));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-help-debug", _("Show all debugging options (usage: --help -help-debug)"));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-logips", strprintf(_("Include IP addresses in debug output (default: %u)"), 0));
     strUsage += HelpMessageOpt("-logtimestamps", strprintf(_("Prepend debug output with timestamp (default: %u)"), 1));
@@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ bool AppInit2(boost::thread_group& threadGroup, CScheduler& scheduler)
     scheduler.scheduleEvery(f, nPowTargetSpacing);
 
     // Generate coins in the background
-    GenerateBitcoins(GetBoolArg("-gen", false), GetArg("-genproclimit", 1), Params());
+    GenerateBitcoins(GetBoolArg("-gen", false), GetArg("-genproclimit", DEFAULT_GENERATE_THREADS), Params());
 
     // ********************************************************* Step 12: finished
 

src/miner.h

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ class CScript;
 class CWallet;
 namespace Consensus { struct Params; };
 
+static const int DEFAULT_GENERATE_THREADS = 1;
+
 struct CBlockTemplate
 {
     CBlock block;

src/rpcmining.cpp

@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ UniValue setgenerate(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
     if (params.size() > 0)
         fGenerate = params[0].get_bool();
 
-    int nGenProcLimit = -1;
+    int nGenProcLimit = GetArg("-genproclimit", DEFAULT_GENERATE_THREADS);
     if (params.size() > 1)
     {
         nGenProcLimit = params[1].get_int();
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ UniValue getmininginfo(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
     obj.push_back(Pair("currentblocktx",   (uint64_t)nLastBlockTx));
     obj.push_back(Pair("difficulty",       (double)GetDifficulty()));
     obj.push_back(Pair("errors",           GetWarnings("statusbar")));
-    obj.push_back(Pair("genproclimit",     (int)GetArg("-genproclimit", -1)));
+    obj.push_back(Pair("genproclimit",     (int)GetArg("-genproclimit", DEFAULT_GENERATE_THREADS)));
     obj.push_back(Pair("networkhashps",    getnetworkhashps(params, false)));
     obj.push_back(Pair("pooledtx",         (uint64_t)mempool.size()));
     obj.push_back(Pair("testnet",          Params().TestnetToBeDeprecatedFieldRPC()));