that's a result of:
contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update ./
it is not scripted diff, because it works differentlly on my localhost and in CI:
CI doesn't want to use git commit date which is mocked to 30th Dec of 2023
## Motivation
As highlighted in https://github.com/dashpay/dash-issues/issues/52,
decoupling of `CFlatDB`-interacting components from managers of objects
like `CGovernanceManager` and `CSporkManager` is a key task for
achieving deglobalization of Dash-specific components.
The design of `CFlatDB` as a flat database agent relies on hooking into
the object's state its meant to load and store, using its
(de)serialization routines and other miscellaneous functions (notably,
without defining an interface) to achieve those ends. This approach was
taken predominantly for components that want a single-file cache.
Because of the method it uses to hook into the object (templates and the
use of temporary objects), it explicitly prevented passing arguments
into the object constructor, an explicit requirement for storing
references to other components during construction. This, in turn,
created an explicit dependency on those same components being available
in the global context, which would block the backport of bitcoin#21866,
a requirement for future backports meant to achieve parity in
`assumeutxo` support.
The design of these objects made no separation between persistent (i.e.
cached) and ephemeral (i.e. generated/fetched during initialization or
state transitions) data and the design of `CFlatDB` attempts to "clean"
the database by breaching this separation and attempting to access this
ephemeral data.
This might be acceptable if it is contained within the manager itself,
like `CSporkManager`'s `CheckAndRemove()` but is utterly unacceptable
when it relies on other managers (that, as a reminder, are only
accessible through the global state because of restrictions caused by
existing design), like `CGovernanceManager`'s `UpdateCachesAndClean()`.
This pull request aims to separate the `CFlatDB`-interacting portions of
these managers into a struct, with `CFlatDB` interacting only with this
struct, while the manager inherits the struct and manages
load/store/update of the database through the `CFlatDB` instance
initialized within its scope, though the instance only has knowledge of
what is exposed through the limited parent struct.
## Additional information
* As regards to existing behaviour, `CFlatDB` is written entirely as a
header as it relies on templates to specialize itself for the object it
hooks into. Attempting to split the logic and function definitions into
separate files will require you to explicitly define template
specializations, which is tedious.
* `m_db` is defined as a pointer as you cannot instantiate a
forward-declared template (see [this Stack Overflow
answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/12797282) for more information),
which is done when defined as a member in the object scope.
* The conditional cache flush predicating on RPC _not_ being in the
warm-up state has been replaced with unconditional flushing of the
database on object destruction (@UdjinM6, is this acceptable?)
## TODOs
This is a list of things that aren't within the scope of this pull
request but should be addressed in subsequent pull requests
* [ ] Definition of an interface that `CFlatDB` stores are expected to
implement
* [ ] Lock annotations for all potential uses of members protected by
the `cs` mutex in each manager object and store
* [ ] Additional comments documenting what each function and member does
* [ ] Deglobalization of affected managers
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Co-authored-by: Kittywhiskers Van Gogh <63189531+kittywhiskers@users.noreply.github.com>
e09c701e0110350f78366fb837308c086b6503c0 scripted-diff: Bump copyright of files changed in 2020 (MarcoFalke)
6cbe6209646db8914b87bf6edbc18c6031a16f1e scripted-diff: Replace CCriticalSection with RecursiveMutex (MarcoFalke)
Pull request description:
`RecursiveMutex` better clarifies that the mutex is recursive, see also the standard library naming: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/recursive_mutex
For that reason, and to avoid different people asking me the same question repeatedly (e.g. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15932#pullrequestreview-339175124 ), remove the outdated alias `CCriticalSection` with a scripted-diff
* fix(dkg): let masternodes miss few connection attempts before considering them "bad"
Should help with dashd updates/restarts for nodes that were successfully probed recently.
* fix
