At startup, we choose one peer to serve us the headers chain, until
our best header is close to caught up. Disconnect this peer if more
than 15 minutes + 1ms/expected_header passes and our best header
is still more than 1 day away from current time.
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).
This adds the listening address on which incoming connections were received to the
CNode and CNodeStats structures.
The address is reported in `getpeerinfo`.
This can be useful for distinguishing connections received on different listening ports
(e.g. when using a different listening port for Tor hidden service connections)
or different networks.
As the maximum amount of data that can be pulled into the cache due to
a block validation is much lower now (at most one CCoin entry per input
and per output), reduce the conservative estimate used to determine
flushing time.
This patch makes several related changes:
* Changes the CCoinsView virtual methods (GetCoins, HaveCoins, ...)
to be COutPoint/Coin-based rather than txid/CCoins-based.
* Changes the chainstate db to a new incompatible format that is also
COutPoint/Coin based.
* Implements reconstruction code for hash_serialized_2.
* Adapts the coins_tests unit tests (thanks to Russell Yanofsky).
A side effect of the new CCoinsView model is that we can no longer
use the (unreliable) test for transaction outputs in the UTXO set
to determine whether we already have a particular transaction.
This clarifies a bit more the ways in which the new script execution
cache could break consensus in the future if additional data from
the CCoins object were to be used as a part of script execution.
After this change, any such consensus breaks should be very visible
to reviewers, hopefully ensuring no such changes can be made.
The new functions are:
* CCoinsViewCache::AddCoin: Add a single COutPoint/Coin pair.
* CCoinsViewCache::SpendCoin: Remove a single COutPoint.
* AddCoins: utility function that invokes CCoinsViewCache::AddCoin for
each output in a CTransaction.
* AccessByTxid: utility function that searches for any output with
a given txid.
* CCoinsViewCache::AccessCoin: retrieve the Coin for a COutPoint.
* CCoinsViewCache::HaveCoins: check whether a non-empty Coin exists
for a given COutPoint.
The AddCoin and SpendCoin methods will eventually replace ModifyCoins
and ModifyNewCoins, AddCoins will replace CCoins::FromTx, and the new
AccessCoins and HaveCoins functions will replace their per-txid
counterparts.
Note that AccessCoin for now returns a copy of the Coin object. In a
later commit it will be change to returning a const reference (which
keeps working in all call sites).
Luke Dashjr