5c3eaf9983 doc: Add warnings for http interfaces limitations (Fabian Jahr)
Pull request description:
`libevent`, which is used for our rest interface, can use up all of the available file descriptors in a system if too many connections are opened at once. If a new block is connected at the same time and can not be written to disk because there are no file descriptors available, the node crashes. Based on my investigation so far the issue is best solved upstream which means we have to wait for the next release (2.2). In the meantime it would be good if we would warn users of this limitation.
See #11368 for more background.
ACKs for top commit:
MarcoFalke:
ACK 5c3eaf9983
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And use it to fix a race condition in mempool_persist.py:
https://travis-ci.org/Empact/bitcoin/jobs/487577243
Since e.g. getrawmempool returns errors based on this status, this
enables users to test it for readiness.
42ff30ec6 [Docs] add short documentation for /rest/blockhashbyheight (Jonas Schnelli)
579d418f7 [QA] add rest tests for /rest/blockhashbyheight/<HEIGHT>.<FORMAT> (Jonas Schnelli)
eb9ef04c4 REST: add "blockhashbyheight" call, fetch blockhash by height (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Completes the REST interface for trivial block exploring by adding a call that allows to fetch the blockhash in the main chain by a given height.
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ce3baa193 changed regtest RPCport to 18443 to avoid conflict with testnet 18332 (Ferdinando M. Ametrano)
Pull request description:
using the same JSON-RPC default port for both testnet and regtest prevents running both at the same time on the same machine. Since RPCport=P2Pport-1 for both mainnet and testnet, and regtest P2Pport being 18444, 18443 is proposed for regtest RPCport
Documentation has been updated (or created where missing); manpages doc/man/bitcoin*.1 could include information for regtest too
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1d8df0141 Fix MD formatting in REST-interface.md and spelling mistake in test_runner.py (MeshCollider)
41f3e84aa Fix inconsistencies and grammar in various files (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
Just a simple fix of some inconsistent capitalization, formatting and grammar in a few files (no code changes)
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It is unreasonable to ask to change the global package configuration
just to build a package. Not only that, this is potentially harmful to the system.
Also do a few punctuation fixes in REST-interface.md.
MarcoFalke