c25321f Add config changes to release notes (Anthony Towns)
5e3cbe0 [tests] Unit tests for -testnet/-regtest in [test]/[regtest] sections (Anthony Towns)
005ad26 ArgsManager: special handling for -regtest and -testnet (Anthony Towns)
608415d [tests] Unit tests for network-specific config entries (Anthony Towns)
68797e2 ArgsManager: Warn when ignoring network-specific config setting (Anthony Towns)
d1fc4d9 ArgsManager: limit some options to only apply on mainnet when in default section (Anthony Towns)
8a9817d [tests] Use regtest section in functional tests configs (Anthony Towns)
30f9407 [tests] Unit tests for config file sections (Anthony Towns)
95eb66d ArgsManager: support config file sections (Anthony Towns)
4d34fcc ArgsManager: drop m_negated_args (Anthony Towns)
3673ca3 ArgsManager: keep command line and config file arguments separate (Anthony Towns)
Pull request description:
The weekly meeting on [2017-12-07](http://www.erisian.com.au/meetbot/bitcoin-core-dev/2017/bitcoin-core-dev.2017-12-07-19.00.log.html) discussed allowing options to bitcoin to have some sensitivity to what network is in use. @theuni suggested having sections in the config file:
<cfields> an alternative to that would be sections in a config file. and on the
cmdline they'd look like namespaces. so, [testnet] port=5. or -testnet::port=5.
This approach is (more or less) supported by `boost::program_options::detail::config_file_iterator` -- when it sees a `[testnet]` section with `port=5`, it will treat that the same as "testnet.port=5". So `[testnet] port=5` (or `testnet.port=5` without the section header) in bitcoin.conf and `-testnet.port=5` on the command line.
The other aspect to this question is possibly limiting some options so that there is no possibility of accidental cross-contamination across networks. For example, if you're using a particular wallet.dat on mainnet, you may not want to accidentally use the same wallet on testnet and risk reusing keys.
I've set this up so that the `-addnode` and `-wallet` options are `NETWORK_ONLY`, so that if you have a bitcoin.conf:
wallet=/secret/wallet.dat
upnp=1
and you run `bitcoind -testnet` or `bitcoind -regtest`, then the `wallet=` setting will be ignored, and should behave as if your bitcoin.conf had specified:
upnp=1
[main]
wallet=/secret/wallet.dat
For any `NETWORK_ONLY` options, if you're using `-testnet` or `-regtest`, you'll have to add the prefix to any command line options. This was necessary for `multiwallet.py` for instance.
I've left the "default" options as taking precedence over network specific ones, which might be backwards. So if you have:
maxmempool=200
[regtest]
maxmempool=100
your maxmempool will still be 200 on regtest. The advantage of doing it this way is that if you have `[regtest] maxmempool=100` in bitcoin.conf, and then say `bitcoind -regtest -maxmempool=200`, the same result is probably in line with what you expect...
The other thing to note is that I'm using the chain names from `chainparamsbase.cpp` / `ChainNameFromCommandLine`, so the sections are `[main]`, `[test]` and `[regtest]`; not `[mainnet]` or `[testnet]` as might be expected.
Thoughts? Ping @MeshCollider @laanwj @jonasschnelli @morcos
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be8ab7d08 Create new wallet databases as directories rather than files (Russell Yanofsky)
26c06f24e Allow wallet files not in -walletdir directory (Russell Yanofsky)
d8a99f65e Allow wallet files in multiple directories (Russell Yanofsky)
Pull request description:
This change consists of three commits:
* The first commit is a pure refactoring that removes the restriction that two wallets can only be opened at the same time if they are contained in the same directory.
* The second commit removes the restriction that `-wallet` filenames can only refer to files in the `-walletdir` directory.
* The third commit makes second commit a little safer by changing bitcoin to create wallet databases as directories rather than files, so they can be safely backed up.
All three commits should be straightforward:
* The first commit adds around 20 lines of new code and then updates a bunch of function signatures (generally updating them to take plain fs::path parameters, instead of combinations of strings, fs::paths, and objects like CDBEnv and CWalletDBWrapper).
* The second commit removes two `-wallet` filename checks and adds some test cases to the multiwallet unit test.
* The third commit just changes the mapping from specified wallet paths to bdb environment & data paths.
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**Note:** For anybody looking at this PR for the first time, I think you can skip the comments before _20 Nov_ and start reading at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11687#issuecomment-345625565. Comments before _20 Nov_ were about an earlier version of the PR that didn't include the third commit, and then confusion from not seeing the first commit.
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be9a13c Add configuration/argument testing (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
Adds a new functional test for testing various command line and configuration file argument interactions, that aren't specific enough to other functionality to be placed in other tests.
Currently this tests the error messages for non-existent datadir, which would have caught the bug fixed in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11829. It also tests that command line arguments override the ones in the config file.
I plan on working on a fix for https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11819 / https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/1044 and then expanding this test with cases for that.
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