Revert "Revert "Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations""
This reverts commit 40cd32e835.
After careful analysis it was determined that the change was, in fact, safe and several people were suffering
momentary confusion about locktime semantics.
40cd32e Revert "Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations" (Gregory Maxwell)
8537ecd Revert "Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints" (Gregory Maxwell)
This reverts commit 9d55050773.
As noted by Luke-Jr, under some conditions this will accept transactions which are invalid by the network
rules. This happens when the current block time is head of the median time past and a transaction's
locktime is in the middle.
This could be addressed by changing the rule to MAX(this_block_time, MTP+offset) but this solution and
the particular offset used deserve some consideration.
Update the unittest that is meant to catch a transaction that is invalid
because it has a null input. The old test failed not because of that
but because it was considered a coinbase with too large script. This is
already checked with a different test, though.
The new test is *not* a coinbase since it has two inputs, but one of
them is null. This really checks the corresponding code path in
CheckTransaction.
143d173 Use BOOST_CHECK_MESSAGE() rather than BOOST_CHECK() in alerts_tests.cpp and initialize strMiscWarning before calling PartitionCheck()." (Eric Lombrozo)
* -maxuploadtarget can be set in MiB
* if <limit> - ( time-left-in-24h-cycle / 600 * MAX_BLOCK_SIZE ) has reach, stop serve blocks older than one week and filtered blocks
* no action if limit has reached, no guarantee that the target will not be surpassed
* add outbound limit informations to rpc getnettotals
dea8d21 Enable policy enforcing GetMedianTimePast as the end point of lock-time constraints (Mark Friedenbach)
9d55050 Add rules--presently disabled--for using GetMedianTimePast as endpoint for lock-time calculations (Mark Friedenbach)
d80e3cb Support gathering of code coverage data for RPC tests (dexX7)
e3b5e6c Run extended BitcoinJ tests for coverage based on config (dexX7)
45d4ff0 Add config option to enable extended RPC tests for code coverage (dexX7)
8e3a27b Require Python for RPC tests, when using lcov (dexX7)
d425877 Remove coverage and test related files, when cleaning up (dexX7)
4d2a926 Ignore coverage data related and temporary test files (dexX7)
Gregory Maxwell