Clarify CCoinsViewMemPool documentation.

Thanks to @sdaftuar for correcting my misunderstanding.
pull/10685/head
Matt Corallo 7 years ago
parent acb11535cb
commit 381b8fc365

@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ UniValue gettxout(const JSONRPCRequest& request)
if (fMempool) { if (fMempool) {
LOCK(mempool.cs); LOCK(mempool.cs);
CCoinsViewMemPool view(pcoinsTip, mempool); CCoinsViewMemPool view(pcoinsTip, mempool);
if (!view.GetCoin(out, coin) || mempool.isSpent(out)) { // TODO: filtering spent coins should be done by the CCoinsViewMemPool if (!view.GetCoin(out, coin) || mempool.isSpent(out)) {
return NullUniValue; return NullUniValue;
} }
} else { } else {

@ -676,6 +676,13 @@ private:
/** /**
* CCoinsView that brings transactions from a memorypool into view. * CCoinsView that brings transactions from a memorypool into view.
* It does not check for spendings by memory pool transactions. * It does not check for spendings by memory pool transactions.
* Instead, it provides access to all Coins which are either unspent in the
* base CCoinsView, or are outputs from any mempool transaction!
* This allows transaction replacement to work as expected, as you want to
* have all inputs "available" to check signatures, and any cycles in the
* dependency graph are checked directly in AcceptToMemoryPool.
* It also allows you to sign a double-spend directly in signrawtransaction,
* as long as the conflicting transaction is not yet confirmed.
*/ */
class CCoinsViewMemPool : public CCoinsViewBacked class CCoinsViewMemPool : public CCoinsViewBacked
{ {

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