nMaxInbound might very well be 0 or -1, if the user prefers to keep
a small number of maxconnections.
Note: nMaxInbound of -1 means that the user set maxconnections
to 8 or less, but we still want to keep an additional slot for
the feeler connection.
> This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the -listenonion, -torcontrol and -torpassword settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass -debug=tor.
But it is correct to say that the feature is enabled *regardless* of whether a connection to Tor can be made.
I propose to clarify that so that users can eliminate these in their logs (when `listen=1` and no Tor).
And I think it's okay to clarify about the `listen` option, because on several occasions when I read this before I always assumed `listening` meant `server=1` which cost me a lot of time in troubleshooting.
```
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551029 tor: Error connecting to Tor control socket
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551700 tor: Not connected to Tor control port 127.0.0.1:9051, trying to reconnect
```
### What version of bitcoin-core are you using?
0.12.1
Note that this is not a major issue as, in order for the missing
lock to cause issues, you have to receive a GETBLOCKTXN message
while reindexing, adding a block header via RPC, etc, which results
in either a table rehash or an insert into the bucket which you are
currently looking at.
3154d6e [Qt] use NotifyHeaderTip's height and date for the progress update (Jonas Schnelli)
0a261b6 Use pindexBestHeader instead of setBlockIndexCandidates for NotifyHeaderTip() (Jonas Schnelli)
There were discrepancies between usage of "block chain" and "blockchain", I've changed them to the latter. The reason for this was that Wikipedia when describing this data structure writes "A blockchain — *originally block chain*", so it seemed the more appropriate term.
178cd88 Qt/splash: Specifically keep track of which wallet(s) we are connected to for later disconnecting (Luke Dashjr)
1880aeb Qt: Get the private key for signing messages via WalletModel (Luke Dashjr)
e7156ad [RPC] pass HTTP basic authentication username to the JSONRequest object (Jonas Schnelli)
69d1c25 [RPC] Give RPC commands more information about the RPC request (Jonas Schnelli)
23c32a9 rpc: Change JSONRPCRequest to JSONRPCRequestObj (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4630479 Make dnsseed's definition of acute need include relevant services. (Gregory Maxwell)
9583477 Be more aggressive in connecting to peers with relevant services. (Gregory Maxwell)
We normally prefer to connect to peers offering the relevant services.
If we're not connected to enough peers with relevant services, we
probably don't know about them and could use dnsseed's help.
a9aec5c Use BlockChecked signal to send reject messages from mapBlockSource (Matt Corallo)
7565e03 Remove SyncWithWallets wrapper function (Matt Corallo)
12ee1fe Always call UpdatedBlockTip, even if blocks were only disconnected (Matt Corallo)
f5efa28 Remove CConnman parameter from ProcessNewBlock/ActivateBestChain (Matt Corallo)
fef1010 Use CValidationInterface from chain logic to notify peer logic (Matt Corallo)
aefcb7b Move net-processing logic definitions together in main.h (Matt Corallo)
0278fb5 Remove duplicate nBlocksEstimate cmp (we already checked IsIBD()) (Matt Corallo)
87e7d72 Make validationinterface.UpdatedBlockTip more verbose (Matt Corallo)
The new benchmarks exercise script validation, CCoinsDBView caching,
mempool eviction, and wallet coin selection code.
All of the benchmarks added here are extremely simple and don't
necessarily mirror common real world conditions or interesting
performance edge cases. Details about how specific benchmarks can be
improved are noted in comments.
Github-Issue: #7883
3ac6de0 Align constant names for maximum compact block / blocktxn depth (Pieter Wuille)
b2e93a3 Add cmpctblock to debug help list (instagibbs)
fe998e9 More agressively filter compact block requests (Matt Corallo)
02a337d Dont remove a "preferred" cmpctblock peer if they provide a block (Matt Corallo)
Wladimir J. van der Laan