This avoids a potential race-condition where a thread is reading the ChainstateManager::m_active_chainstate pointer while another one is writing to it. There is no portable guarantee that reading/writing the pointer is thread-safe. This is also done in way that mimics ::ChainstateActive(), so the transition from that function to this method is easy. More discussion: 1. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20749#discussion_r559544027 2. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19806#discussion_r561023961 3. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19806#issuecomment-768946522 4. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19806#issuecomment-768955695pull/826/head
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