This is a well-intentioned but realistically annoying warning. Unfortunately,
it's too easy for a warning in one header to cause dozens of repeated warnings.
glibc-specific: On 32-bit systems set the number of arenas to 1. By
default, since glibc 2.10, the C library will create up to two heap
arenas per core. This is known to cause excessive virtual address space
usage in our usage. Work around it by setting the maximum number of
arenas to 1.
This adds a mode argument to `getmemoryinfo`. By default the output
will remain the same. However if a mode argument of `mallocinfo` is
provided the result of glibc `malloc_info` (if available) will
be returned as a string, as-is.
This is useful for tracking heap usage over time or troubleshooting
memory fragmentation issues.
Instead of the WIN32-specific workaround, detect lack of `MSG_DONTWAIT`
in the build system. This allows other platforms without `MSG_DONTWAIT`
to work too.
ad1ae7a Check and enable -Wshadow by default. (Pavel Janík)
9de90bb Do not shadow variables (gcc set) (Pavel Janík)
Tree-SHA512: 9517feb423dc8ddd63896016b25324673bfbe0bffa97f22996f59d7a3fcbdc2ebf2e43ac02bc067546f54e293e9b2f2514be145f867321e9031f895c063d9fb8
7e6dcd9 random: Add fallback if getrandom syscall not available (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
7cad849 sanity: Move OS random to sanity check function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
aa09ccb squashme: comment that NUM_OS_RANDOM_BYTES should not be changed lightly (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
224e6eb util: Specific GetOSRandom for Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Tree-SHA512: 9fd408b1316c69de86674f342339b2f89192fd317c8c036b5df4320f828fa263c7966146bfc1904c51137ee4a26e4cb0f560b2cd05e18cde4d808b9b92ad15c4
These are available in sandboxes without access to files or
devices. Also [they are safer and more straightforward](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy-supplying_system_calls)
to use than `/dev/urandom` as reading from a file has quite a few edge
cases:
- Linux: `getrandom(buf, buflen, 0)`. [getrandom(2)](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrandom.2.html)
was introduced in version 3.17 of the Linux kernel.
- OpenBSD: `getentropy(buf, buflen)`. The [getentropy(2)](http://man.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man2/getentropy.2)
function appeared in OpenBSD 5.6.
- FreeBSD and NetBSD: `sysctl(KERN_ARND)`. Not sure when this was added
but it has existed for quite a while.
Alternatives:
- Linux has sysctl `CTL_KERN` / `KERN_RANDOM` / `RANDOM_UUID`
which gives 16 bytes of randomness. This may be available
on older kernels, however [sysctl is deprecated on Linux](https://lwn.net/Articles/605392/)
and even removed in some distros so we shouldn't use it.
Add tests for `GetOSRand()`:
- Test that no error happens (otherwise `RandFailure()` which aborts)
- Test that all 32 bytes are overwritten (initialize with zeros, try multiple times)
Discussion:
- When to use these? Currently they are always used when available.
Another option would be to use them only when `/dev/urandom` is not
available. But this would mean these code paths receive less testing,
and I'm not sure there is any reason to prefer `/dev/urandom`.
Closes: #9676
2fb98f6 Fix bug in dmg builder so that it actually reads in the configuration file (Don Patterson)
b01667c Mention RSVG dependency when creating the disk image on OSX (Jonas Schnelli)
09aefb5 build: Fix 'make deploy' for OSX (Cory Fields)
76faa3c Rename the remaining main.{h,cpp} to validation.{h,cpp} (Matt Corallo)
e736772 Move network-msg-processing code out of main to its own file (Matt Corallo)
87c35f5 Remove orphan state wipe from UnloadBlockIndex. (Matt Corallo)
OBJCXX's std flags don't get defined by our cxx macro. Rather than hard-coding
to c++11, just force OBJCXX to be the same as CXX unless the user specified
otherwise.
Simplified version of #8278. Assumes that every OS that (a) is supported
by Bitcoin Core (b) supports daemonization has the `daemon()` function
in its C library.
- Removes the fallback path for operating systems that support
daemonization but not `daemon()`. This prevents never-exercised code from
ending up in the repository (see discussion here:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8278#issuecomment-242704745).
- Removes the windows-specific path. Windows doesn't support `daemon()`,
so it don't support daemonization there, automatically.
Original code by Matthew King, adapted by Wladimir van der Laan.
62c2915 build: supply `-Wl,--high-entropy-va` (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
9a75d29 devtools: Check for high-entropy ASLR in 64-bit PE executables (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
d19583f improved gen-manpages.sh, includes bitcoin-tx and strips commit tag, now also runs binaries from build dir by default, added variables for more control (nomnombtc)
09546ca regenerated all manpages with commit tag stripped, also add bitcoin-tx (nomnombtc)
ae6e754 change help string --enable-man to --disable-man (nomnombtc)
a32c102 add conditional for --enable-man, default is yes (nomnombtc)
dc84b6f add doc/man to subdir if configure flag --enable-man is set (nomnombtc)
00dba72 add doc/man/Makefile.am to include manpages (nomnombtc)
eb5643b add autogenerated manpages by help2man (nomnombtc)
6edf2fd add gen-manpages.sh description to README.md (nomnombtc)
d2cd9c0 add script to generate manpages with help2man (nomnombtc)
Cory Fields