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9bac71350d98580cc7441957fc7c3fa2f4158553 build: make HAVE_O_CLOEXEC available outside LevelDB (bugfix) (Sebastian Falbesoner) 584fd91d2d294883e6896dbd64a2176528e94581 init: only use pipe2 if availabile, check in configure (Sebastian Falbesoner) Pull request description: The result of the O_CLOEXEC availability check is currently only set in the Makefile and passed to LevelDB (see `LEVELDB_CPPFLAGS_INT` in `src/Makefile.leveldb.include`), but not defined to be used in our codebase. This means that code within the preprocessor conditional `#if HAVE_O_CLOEXEC` was actually never compiled. On the master branch this is currently used for pipe creation in `src/shutdown.cpp`, PR #21007 moves this part to a new module (I found the issue while testing that PR). The fix is similar to the one in #19803, which solved the same problem for HAVE_FDATASYNC. In the course of working on the PR it turned out that pipe2 is not available an all platforms, hence a configure check and a corresponding define HAVE_PIPE2 is introduced and used. The PR can be tested by anyone with a system that has pipe2 and O_CLOEXEC available by putting gibberish into the HAVE_O_CLOEXEC block: on master, everything should compile fine, on PR, the compiler should abort with an error. At least that's my naive way of testing preprocessor logic, happy to hear more sophisticated ways :-) ACKs for top commit: laanwj: Code review ACK 9bac71350d98580cc7441957fc7c3fa2f4158553 Tree-SHA512: aec89faf6ba52b6f014c610ebef7b725d9e967207d58b42a4a71afc9f1268fcb673ecc85b33a2a3debba8105a304dd7edaba4208c5373fcef2ab83e48a170051
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.
For more information read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
License
Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Development Process
The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be
completely stable. Tags are created
regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.
The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.
The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.
Testing
Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.
Automated Testing
Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to
submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run
(assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running
and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.
There are also regression and integration tests, written
in Python.
These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py
The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.
Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing
Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.
Translations
Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.
Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.
Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.