ipc: Expose an RPC interface over the -ipcbind socket

This allows `bitcoin-cli` to connect to the node via IPC instead TCP to execute
RPC methods in an upcoming commit.
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Ryan Ofsky
2025-10-09 12:47:27 -04:00
parent df76891a3b
commit 6a54834895
12 changed files with 95 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@ void SetupServerArgs(ArgsManager& argsman, bool can_listen_ipc)
argsman.AddArg("-rpcworkqueue=<n>", strprintf("Set the maximum depth of the work queue to service RPC calls (default: %d)", DEFAULT_HTTP_WORKQUEUE), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY | ArgsManager::DEBUG_ONLY, OptionsCategory::RPC);
argsman.AddArg("-server", "Accept command line and JSON-RPC commands", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::RPC);
if (can_listen_ipc) {
argsman.AddArg("-ipcbind=<address>", "Bind to Unix socket address and listen for incoming connections. Valid address values are \"unix\" to listen on the default path, <datadir>/node.sock, or \"unix:/custom/path\" to specify a custom path. Can be specified multiple times to listen on multiple paths. Default behavior is not to listen on any path. If relative paths are specified, they are interpreted relative to the network data directory. If paths include any parent directory components and the parent directories do not exist, they will be created.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::IPC);
argsman.AddArg("-ipcbind=<address>", "Bind to Unix socket address and listen for incoming connections. Valid address values are \"unix\" to listen on the default path, <datadir>/node.sock, or \"unix:/custom/path\" to specify a custom path. Can be specified multiple times to listen on multiple paths. Default behavior is not to listen on any path. If relative paths are specified, they are interpreted relative to the network data directory. If paths include any parent directory components and the parent directories do not exist, they will be created. Enabling this gives local processes that can access the socket unauthenticated RPC access, so it's important to choose a path with secure permissions if customizing this.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::IPC);
}
#if HAVE_DECL_FORK