Use case: TryCreateDirectory(GetDataDir() / "blocks" / "index") would
fail if the blocks directory was not explicitly created before.
The line that did so was in a weird location and could be removed as a
result.
This change has no effect on wallet behavior.
On wallet startup, the transaction scan avoids reading any blocks with
timestamps older than the wallet birthday (less than nTimeFirstKey -
TIMESTAMP_WINDOW). This block skipping code currently resides in
CWallet::ScanForWalletTransactions but it doesn't really belong there because
it makes the implementation unnecessarily fragile and hard to understand, and
it never has any effect except at startup (because all other callers do their
rescans based on timestamps other than, but always greater or equal to,
nTimeFirstKey).
No change in behavior. Get rid of specifiedConfirmTarget if/else block and
rename specifiedConfirmTarget and ignoreUserSetFee variables to
ignoreGlobalPayTxFee.
```
$ git blame src/policy/fees.cpp | grep becuase
3810e976 (2017-03-07 11:33:44 -0500 789) * checks for 2*target becuase we are taking the max over all time
$ git blame src/policy/fees.h | grep successfullly
2d2e1705 (2017-04-12 12:29:03 -0400 54) * representing that a tx was successfullly confirmed in less than or equal to
$ git blame src/wallet/feebumper.cpp | grep "hasen't"
a3878374 (2017-05-11 09:34:39 +0200 258) // make sure the transaction still has no descendants and hasen't been mined in the meantime
```
Motivation for moving these is to make supporting IPC simpler (#10102), so
these lookups can be one-shot IPC requests, instead of back-and-forth
interactions over the IPC channel.
Also these functions are potentially useful outside of the bitcoin GUI (e.g.
for RPCs).
Start importwallet rescans at the first block with timestamp greater or equal
to the wallet birthday instead of the last block with timestamp less or equal.
This fixes an edge case bug where importwallet could fail to start the rescan
early enough if there are blocks with decreasing timestamps or multiple blocks
with the same timestamp.
An off-by-one-block bug in importmulti rescan logic could cause it to return
success in an edge case even when a rescan was not successful. The case where
this would happen is if there were multiple blocks in a row with the same
GetBlockTimeMax() value, and the last block was scanned successfully, but one
or more of the earlier blocks was not readable.
Marko Bencun