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30073e6b3a24cbe417c45cd5df6a3a2de0251e9d multiprocess: Add -ipcbind option to bitcoin-node (Russell Yanofsky) 73fe7d723084653671f2178ea1177a8627edfafa multiprocess: Add unit tests for connect, serve, and listen functions (Ryan Ofsky) 955d4077aac621697246bcb20a854ba97e37c519 multiprocess: Add IPC connectAddress and listenAddress methods (Russell Yanofsky) 4da20434d4d68b7933e39aca36faa6fd2264cc45 depends: Update libmultiprocess library for CustomMessage function and ThreadContext bugfix (Ryan Ofsky) Pull request description: Add `-ipcbind` option to `bitcoin-node` to make it listen on a unix socket and accept connections from other processes. The default socket path is `<datadir>/node.sock`, but this can be customized. This option lets potential wallet, gui, index, and mining processes connect to the node and control it. See examples in #19460, #19461, and #30437. Motivation for this PR, in combination with #30510, is be able to release a bitcoin core node binary that can generate block templates for a separate Stratum v2 mining service, like the one being implemented in https://github.com/Sjors/bitcoin/pull/48, that connects over IPC. Other things to know about this PR: - While the `-ipcbind` option lets other processes to connect to the `bitcoin-node` process, the only thing they can actually do after connecting is call methods on the [`Init`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/ipc/capnp/init.capnp#L17-L20) interface which is currently very limited and doesn't do much. But PRs [#30510](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30510), [#29409](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29409), and [#10102](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10102) expand the `Init` interface to expose mining, wallet, and gui functionality respectively. - This PR is not needed for [#10102](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10102), which runs GUI, node, and wallet code in different processes, because [#10102](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10102) does not use unix sockets or allow outside processes to connect to existing processes. [#10102](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/10102) lets parent and child processes communicate over internal socketpairs, not externally accessible sockets. --- This PR is part of the [process separation project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/28722). ACKs for top commit: achow101: ACK 30073e6b3a24cbe417c45cd5df6a3a2de0251e9d TheCharlatan: Re-ACK 30073e6b3a24cbe417c45cd5df6a3a2de0251e9d itornaza: Code review ACK 30073e6b3a24cbe417c45cd5df6a3a2de0251e9d Tree-SHA512: 2b766e60535f57352e8afda9c3748a32acb5a57b2827371b48ba865fa9aa1df00f340732654f2e300c6823dbc6f3e14377fca87e4e959e613fe85a6d2312d9c8
Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree
For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.
What is Bitcoin Core?
Bitcoin Core connects to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and fully validate blocks and transactions. It also includes a wallet and graphical user interface, which can be optionally built.
Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.
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 during the generation of the build system) with: ctest. 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.