eefe56967b bugfix: Fix incorrect debug.log config file path (Ryan Ofsky)
3746f00be1 init: Error if ignored bitcoin.conf file is found (Ryan Ofsky)
398c3719b0 lint: Fix lint-format-strings false positives when format specifiers have argument positions (Ryan Ofsky)
Pull request description:
Show an error on startup if a bitcoin datadir that is being used contains a `bitcoin.conf` file that is ignored. There are two cases where this could happen:
- One case reported in [#27246 (comment)](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27246#issuecomment-1470006043) happens when a `bitcoin.conf` file in the default datadir (e.g. `$HOME/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf`) has a `datadir=/path` line that sets different datadir containing a second `bitcoin.conf` file. Currently the second `bitcoin.conf` file is ignored with no warning.
- Another way this could happen is if a `-conf=` command line argument points to a configuration file with a `datadir=/path` line and that path contains a `bitcoin.conf` file, which is currently ignored.
This change only adds an error message and doesn't change anything about way settings are applied. It also doesn't trigger errors if there are redundant `-datadir` or `-conf` settings pointing at the same configuration file, only if they are pointing at different files and one file is being ignored.
ACKs for top commit:
pinheadmz:
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willcl-ark:
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TheCharlatan:
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This commit effectively moves the definition of these constants
out of the chainparamsbase to their own file.
Using the ChainType enums provides better type safety compared to
passing around strings.
The commit is part of an ongoing effort to decouple the libbitcoinkernel
library from the ArgsManager and other functionality that should not be
part of the kernel library.
Currently debug.log will show the wrong bitcoin.conf config file path when
bitcoind is invoked without -conf or -datadir arguments, and there's a default
bitcoin.conf file which specifies another datadir= location. When this happens,
the debug.log will include an incorrect "Config file:" line referring to a
bitcoin.conf file in the other datadir, instead of the referring to the actual
configuration file in the default datadir which was parsed.
The bad log print was reported and originally fixed in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27303 by
Matthew Zipkin <pinheadmz@gmail.com>
This PR takes a slightly different approach to fixing the bug, trying to avoid
future bugs by not allowing the GetConfigFilePath function to be called before
the the configuration is parsed, and deleting GetConfigFile function which
could be confused with GetConfigFilePath. It also includes a test for the bug
which the original fix did not have.
Co-authored-by: Matthew Zipkin <pinheadmz@gmail.com>
Show an error on startup if a bitcoin datadir that is being used contains a
`bitcoin.conf` file that is ignored. There are two cases where this could
happen:
- One case reported in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27246#issuecomment-1470006043
happens when a bitcoin.conf file in the default datadir (e.g.
$HOME/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf) has a "datadir=/path" line that sets different
datadir containing a second bitcoin.conf file. Currently the second
bitcoin.conf file is ignored with no warning.
- Another way this could happen is if a -conf= command line argument points
to a configuration file with a "datadir=/path" line and that specified path
contains a bitcoin.conf file, which is currently ignored.
This change only adds an error message and doesn't change anything about way
settings are applied. It also doesn't trigger errors if there are redundant
-datadir or -conf settings pointing at the same configuration file, only if
they are pointing at different files and one file is being ignored.
This is an extraction of ArgsManager related functions from util/system
into their own common file.
Config file related functions are moved to common/config.cpp.
The background of this commit is an ongoing effort to decouple the
libbitcoinkernel library from the ArgsManager. The ArgsManager belongs
into the common library, since the kernel library should not depend on
it. See doc/design/libraries.md for more information on this rationale.
The fs.* files are already part of the libbitcoin_util library. With the
introduction of the fs_helpers.* it makes sense to move fs.* into the
util/ directory as well.
Add common InitConfig function to deduplicate bitcoind and bitcoin-qt code
reading config files and creating the datadir.
There are a few minor changes in behavior:
- In bitcoin-qt, when there is a problem reading the configuration file, the
GUI error text has changed from "Error: Cannot parse configuration file:" to
"Error reading configuration file:" to be consistent with bitcoind.
- In bitcoind, when there is a problem reading the settings.json file, the
error text has changed from "Failed loading settings file" to "Settings
file could not be read" to be consistent with bitcoin-qt.
- In bitcoind, when there is a problem writing the settings.json file, the
error text has changed from "Failed saving settings file" to "Settings file
could not be written" to be consistent with bitcoin-qt.
- In bitcoin-qt, if there datadir is not accessible (e.g. no permission to read),
there is an normal error dialog showing "Error: filesystem error: status:
Permission denied [.../settings.json]", instead of an uncaught exception
