lightningd: inline overview documentation (part 1 of 8).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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@ -14,24 +14,10 @@ Getting Started
It's in C, to encourage alternate implementations. Patches are welcome!
You should read our [Style Guide](STYLE.md).
To read the code, you'll probably need to understand `ccan/tal`: it's a
hierarchical memory allocator, where each allocation has a parent, and
thus lifetimes are grouped. eg. a `struct bitcoin_tx` has a pointer
to an array of `struct bitcoin_tx_input`; they are allocated off the
`struct bitcoind_tx`, so freeing the `struct bitcoind_tx` frees them all.
Tal also supports destructors, which are usually used to remove things
from lists, etc.
Some routines use take(): take() marks a pointer as to be consumed
(e.g. freed automatically before return) by a called function.
It can safely accept NULL pointers.
Functions whose prototype in headers has the macro TAKES can have the
specific argument as a take() call.
Use this sparingly, as it can be very confusing.
The more complex daemons use async io (ccan/io): you register callbacks
and they happen once I/O is available, then you return what to do next.
This does not use threads, so the code flow is generally fairly simple.
To read the code, you should start from
[lightningd.c](../lightningd/lightningd.c) and hop your way through
the '~' comments at the head of each daemon in the suggested
order.
The Components
--------------
@ -61,8 +47,13 @@ Here's a list of parts, with notes:
- mockup.sh / update-mocks.sh: tools to generate mock functions for
unit tests.
* tests/ - blackbox tests (mainly)
- unit tests are in tests/ subdirectories in each other directory.
* doc/ - you are here
* devtools/ - tools for developers
- Currently just bolt11-cli for decoding bolt11
- Generally for decoding our formats.
* contrib/ - python support and other stuff which doesn't belong :)
@ -80,10 +71,12 @@ Here's a list of parts, with notes:
* hsmd/ - daemon which looks after the cryptographic secret, and performs
commitment signing.
* gossipd/ - daemon to chat to peers which don't have any channels,
and maintains routing information and broadcasts gossip.
* gossipd/ - daemon to maintain routing information and broadcast gossip.
* openingd/ - daemon to open a channel for a single peer.
* connectd/ - daemon to connect to other peers, and receive incoming.
* openingd/ - daemon to open a channel for a single peer, and chat to
a peer which doesn't have any channels/
* channeld/ - daemon to operate a single peer once channel is operating
normally.

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@ -1,9 +1,39 @@
/*~ Welcome, wonderful reader!
*
* This is the core of c-lightning: the main file of the master daemon
* `lightningd`. It's mainly cluttered with the miscellany of setup,
* and a few startup sanity checks.
*
* The role of this daemon is to start the subdaemons, shuffle peers
* between them, handle the JSON RPC requests, bitcoind, the database
* and centralize logging. In theory, it doesn't trust the other
* daemons, though we expect hsmd to be responsive.
*
* Comments beginning with a ~ (like this one!) are part of our shared
* adventure through the source, so they're more meta than normal code
* comments, and mean to be read in a certain order.
*/
/*~ Notice how includes are in ASCII order: this is actually enforced by
* the build system under 'make check-source'. It avoids merge conflicts
* and keeps things consistent. */
#include "gossip_control.h"
#include "hsm_control.h"
#include "lightningd.h"
#include "peer_control.h"
#include "subd.h"
/*~ This is Ian Lance Taylor's libbacktrace. It turns out that it's
* horrifically difficult to obtain a decent backtrace in C; the standard
* backtrace function is useless in most programs. */
#include <backtrace.h>
/*~ These headers are from CCAN: http://ccodearchive.net.
*
* It's another one of Rusty's projects, and we copy and paste it
* automatically into the source tree here, so you should never edit
* it. There's a Makefile target update-ccan to update it (and add modules
* if CCAN_NEW is specified). */
#include <ccan/array_size/array_size.h>
#include <ccan/cast/cast.h>
#include <ccan/crypto/hkdf_sha256/hkdf_sha256.h>
@ -18,11 +48,14 @@
#include <ccan/tal/grab_file/grab_file.h>
#include <ccan/tal/path/path.h>
#include <ccan/tal/str/str.h>
/*~ This is common code: routines shared by one or more programs. */
#include <common/daemon.h>
#include <common/memleak.h>
#include <common/timeout.h>
#include <common/utils.h>
#include <common/version.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <lightningd/bitcoind.h>
@ -39,39 +72,86 @@
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
/*~ The core lightning object: it's passed everywhere, and is basically a
* global variable. This new_xxx pattern is something we'll see often:
* it allocates and initializes a new structure, using *tal*, the heirarchitcal
* allocator. */
static struct lightningd *new_lightningd(const tal_t *ctx)
{
/*~ tal: each allocation is a child of an existing object (or NULL,
* the top-level object). When an object is freed, all the objects
* 'tallocated' off it are also freed. In this case, freeing 'ctx'
* will free 'ld'.
*
* It's incredibly useful for grouping object lifetimes, as we'll see.
*/
struct lightningd *ld = tal(ctx, struct lightningd);
/*~ Note that we generally EXPLICITLY #if-wrap DEVELOPER code. This
* is a nod to keeping it minimal and explicit: we need this code for
* testing, but its existence means we're not actually testing the
* same exact code users will be running. */
#if DEVELOPER
ld->dev_debug_subdaemon = NULL;
ld->dev_disconnect_fd = -1;
ld->dev_subdaemon_fail = false;
ld->dev_allow_localhost = false;
/*~ Behaving differently depending on environment variables is a hack,
* *but* hacks are allowed for dev-mode stuff. In this case, there's
* a significant overhead to the memory leak detection stuff, and
* we can't use it under valgrind, so the test harness uses this var
* to disable it in that case. */
if (getenv("LIGHTNINGD_DEV_MEMLEAK"))
memleak_init();
#endif
/*~ These are CCAN lists: an embedded double-linked list. It's not
* really typesafe, but relies on convention to access the contents.
* It's inspired by the closely-related Linux kernel list.h. */
list_head_init(&ld->peers);
/*~ These are hash tables of incoming and outgoing HTLCs (contracts) */
htlc_in_map_init(&ld->htlcs_in);
htlc_out_map_init(&ld->htlcs_out);
/*~ We have a log-book infrastructure: we define a 20MB log book and
* point our log objects into it. */
ld->log_book = new_log_book(20*1024*1024, LOG_INFORM);
/*~ Note the tal context arg (by convention, the first argument to any
* allocation function): ld->log will be implicitly freed when ld
* is. */
ld->log = new_log(ld, ld->log_book, "lightningd(%u):", (int)getpid());
ld->logfile = NULL;
/*~ We explicitly set these to NULL: if they're still NULL after option
* parsing, we know they're to be set to the defaults. */
ld->alias = NULL;
ld->rgb = NULL;
list_head_init(&ld->connects);
list_head_init(&ld->waitsendpay_commands);
list_head_init(&ld->sendpay_commands);
list_head_init(&ld->close_commands);
/*~ Tal also explicitly supports arrays: it stores the number of
* elements, which can be accessed with tal_count() (or tal_bytelen()
* for raw bytecount). It's common for simple arrays to use
* tal_resize(), which is a typesafe realloc function, but as all
* talocations need a parent, we start with an empty array rather than
* NULL. */
ld->proposed_wireaddr = tal_arr(ld, struct wireaddr_internal, 0);
ld->proposed_listen_announce = tal_arr(ld, enum addr_listen_announce, 0);
ld->portnum = DEFAULT_PORT;
ld->listen = true;
ld->autolisten = true;
ld->reconnect = true;
/*~ This is from ccan/timer: a scalable timer system which has a
* fascinating implementation you should read if you have a spare
* few hours */
timers_init(&ld->timers, time_mono());
/*~ This is detailed in chaintopology.c */
ld->topology = new_topology(ld, ld->log);
ld->daemon = false;
ld->config_filename = NULL;
@ -87,6 +167,8 @@ static struct lightningd *new_lightningd(const tal_t *ctx)
return ld;
}
/*~ We list our daemons here so on startup we can test they're the
* correct versions and that they exist. */
static const char *subdaemons[] = {
"lightning_channeld",
"lightning_closingd",
@ -97,29 +179,43 @@ static const char *subdaemons[] = {
"lightning_openingd"
};
/* Check we can run them, and check their versions */
/*~ Check we can run them, and check their versions */
void test_subdaemons(const struct lightningd *ld)
{
size_t i;
/*~ CCAN's ARRAY_SIZE() should always be used on defined arrays: it will
* fail to build if the argument is actually a pointer, not an array! */
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(subdaemons); i++) {
int outfd;
/*~ CCAN's path module uses tal, so wants a context to allocate
* from. We have a magic context 'tmpctx' which is freed in
* the event loop for transient allocations like this. */
const char *dpath = path_join(tmpctx, ld->daemon_dir, subdaemons[i]);
const char *verstring;
/*~ CCAN's pipecmd module is like popen for grownups. */
pid_t pid = pipecmd(&outfd, NULL, &outfd,
dpath, "--version", NULL);
/*~ Our logging system: spam goes in at log_debug level */
log_debug(ld->log, "testing %s", dpath);
if (pid == -1)
err(1, "Could not run %s", dpath);
/*~ CCAN's grab_file module contains a routine to read into a
* tallocated buffer until EOF */
verstring = grab_fd(tmpctx, outfd);
/*~ Like many CCAN modules, it set errno on failure, which
* err (ccan/err, but usually just the BSD <err.h>) prints */
if (!verstring)
err(1, "Could not get output from %s", dpath);
/*~ strstarts is from CCAN/str. */
if (!strstarts(verstring, version())
|| verstring[strlen(version())] != '\n')
errx(1, "%s: bad version '%s'",
subdaemons[i], verstring);
}
}
/* Check if all subdaemons exist in specified directory. */
static bool has_all_subdaemons(const char* daemon_dir)
{
@ -136,10 +232,16 @@ static bool has_all_subdaemons(const char* daemon_dir)
return !missing_daemon;
}
/* This routine tries to determine what path the lightningd binary is in.
* It's not actually that simple! */
static const char *find_my_path(const tal_t *ctx, const char *argv0)
{
char *me;
/* A command containing / is run relative to the current directory,
* not searched through the path. The shell sets argv0 to the command
* run, though something else could set it to a arbitrary value and
* this logic would be wrong. */
if (strchr(argv0, PATH_SEP)) {
const char *path;
/* Absolute paths are easy. */
@ -159,6 +261,7 @@ static const char *find_my_path(const tal_t *ctx, const char *argv0)
const char *pathenv = getenv("PATH");
size_t i;
/* This replicates the standard shell path search algorithm */
if (!pathenv)
errx(1, "Cannot find myself: no $PATH set");
@ -177,47 +280,85 @@ static const char *find_my_path(const tal_t *ctx, const char *argv0)
errx(1, "Cannot find %s in $PATH", argv0);
}
/*~ The caller just wants the directory we're in.
*
* Note the magic "take()" macro here: it annotates a pointer as "to
* be taken", and the recipient is expected to take ownership of the
* pointer.
*
* Many CCAN and our own routines support this, but if you hand a take()
* to a non-take routine unfortunately you don't get a compile error.
*/
return path_dirname(ctx, take(me));
}
/*~ This returns the PKGLIBEXEC path which is where binaries get installed.
* Note the 'TAKES' annotation which is merely documentation that it will
* take ownership of 'my_path' if the caller hands take() there.
*/
static const char *find_my_pkglibexec_path(const tal_t *ctx,
const char *my_path TAKES)
{
const char *pkglibexecdir;
pkglibexecdir = path_join(ctx, my_path, BINTOPKGLIBEXECDIR);
/*~ Sometimes take() can be more efficient, since the routine can
* manipulate the string in place. This is the case here. */
return path_simplify(ctx, take(pkglibexecdir));
}
/* Determine the correct daemon dir. */
static const char *find_daemon_dir(const tal_t *ctx, const char *argv0)
{
const char *my_path = find_my_path(ctx, argv0);
/* If we're running in-tree, all the subdaemons are with lightningd. */
if (has_all_subdaemons(my_path))
return my_path;
/* Otherwise we assume they're in the installed dir. */
return find_my_pkglibexec_path(ctx, take(my_path));
}
/*~ We like to free everything on exit, so valgrind doesn't complain. In some
* ways it would be neater not to do this, but it turns out some transient
* objects still need cleaning. */
static void shutdown_subdaemons(struct lightningd *ld)
{
struct peer *p;
/*~ Because tal objects can be free indirectly, by freeing their parents
* it turns out to be vital to be able to add *destructors* to objects.
* As a result, freeing them may cause callbacks; in this case, some
* objects freed here can cause database writes, which must be inside
* a transaction */
db_begin_transaction(ld->wallet->db);
/* Let everyone shutdown cleanly. */
close(ld->hsm_fd);
/*~ The three "global" daemons, which we shutdown explicitly. */
subd_shutdown(ld->connectd, 10);
subd_shutdown(ld->gossip, 10);
subd_shutdown(ld->hsm, 10);
/* Now we free all the HTLCs */
free_htlcs(ld, NULL);
/*~ For every peer, we free every channel. Note that the peer has a
* destructor (by convention, called destroy_peer) which removes it
* from the list. Thus we use list_top() not list_pop() here. */
while ((p = list_top(&ld->peers, struct peer, list)) != NULL) {
struct channel *c;
/*~ A peer can have multiple channels; we only allow one to be
* open at any time, but we remember old ones for 100 blocks,
* after all the outputs we care about are spent. */
while ((c = list_top(&p->channels, struct channel, list))
!= NULL) {
/* Removes itself from list as we free it */
tal_free(c);
}
/* Freeing uncommitted channel will free peer. */
/* A peer may have a channel in the process of opening. */
if (p->uncommitted_channel) {
struct uncommitted_channel *uc = p->uncommitted_channel;
@ -229,20 +370,37 @@ static void shutdown_subdaemons(struct lightningd *ld)
/* Removes itself from list as we free it */
tal_free(p);
}
/*~ Commit the transaction. Note that the db is actually
* single-threaded, so commits never fail and we don't need
* spin-and-retry logic everywhere. */
db_commit_transaction(ld->wallet->db);
}
/*~ Chainparams are the parameters for eg. testnet vs mainnet. This wrapper
* saves lots of struggles with our 80-column guideline! */
const struct chainparams *get_chainparams(const struct lightningd *ld)
{
/* "The lightningd is connected to the chain topology."
* "The chain topology is connected to the bitcoind API."
* "The bitcoind API is connected chain parameters."
* -- Worst childhood song ever. */
return ld->topology->bitcoind->chainparams;
}
/*~ Our wallet logic needs to know what outputs we might be interested in: we
* keep the maximum-ever-used key index in the db, and add them all to the
* filter here. */
static void init_txfilter(struct wallet *w, struct txfilter *filter)
{
/*~ This is defined in libwally, so we didn't have to reimplement */
struct ext_key ext;
/*~ Note the use of ccan/short_types u64 rather than uint64_t.
* Thank me later. */
u64 bip32_max_index;
bip32_max_index = db_get_intvar(w->db, "bip32_max_index", 0);
/*~ One of the C99 things I unequivocally approve: for-loop scope. */
for (u64 i = 0; i <= bip32_max_index; i++) {
if (bip32_key_from_parent(w->bip32_base, i, BIP32_FLAG_KEY_PUBLIC, &ext) != WALLY_OK) {
abort();
@ -251,26 +409,40 @@ static void init_txfilter(struct wallet *w, struct txfilter *filter)
}
}
/*~ The normal advice for daemons is to move into the root directory, so you
* don't prevent unmounting whatever filesystem you happen to start in.
*
* But we define every path relative to our (~/.lightning) data dir, so we
* make sure we stay there.
*/
static void daemonize_but_keep_dir(struct lightningd *ld)
{
/* daemonize moves us into /, but we want to be here */
const char *cwd = path_cwd(NULL);
/*~ SQLite3 does NOT like being open across fork(), a.k.a. daemonize() */
db_close_for_fork(ld->wallet->db);
if (!cwd)
fatal("Could not get current directory: %s", strerror(errno));
if (!daemonize())
fatal("Could not become a daemon: %s", strerror(errno));
/* Move back: important, since lightning dir may be relative! */
/*~ Move back: important, since lightning dir may be relative! */
if (chdir(cwd) != 0)
fatal("Could not return to directory %s: %s",
cwd, strerror(errno));
db_reopen_after_fork(ld->wallet->db);
/*~ Why not allocate cwd off tmpctx? Probably because this code predates
* tmpctx. So we free manually here. */
tal_free(cwd);
}
/*~ It's pretty standard behaviour (especially for daemons) to create and
* file-lock a pidfile. This not only prevents accidentally running multiple
* daemons on the same database at once, but lets nosy sysadmins see what pid
* the currently-running daemon is supposed to be. */
static void pidfile_create(const struct lightningd *ld)
{
char *pid;
@ -281,19 +453,30 @@ static void pidfile_create(const struct lightningd *ld)
if (pid_fd < 0)
err(1, "Failed to open PID file");
/* Lock PID file */
/* Lock PID file: this will stay locked until we exit. */
if (lockf(pid_fd, F_TLOCK, 0) < 0)
/* Problem locking file */
err(1, "lightningd already running? Error locking PID file");
/* Get current PID and write to PID fie */
/*~ Note that tal_fmt() is what asprintf() dreams of being. */
pid = tal_fmt(tmpctx, "%d\n", getpid());
/*~ CCAN's write_all writes to a file descriptor, looping if necessary
* (which, on a file unlike a socket, is never, for historical UNIX
* reasons). It also isn't declared with GCC's warn_unused_result
* which write() is when FORTIFY_SOURCE is defined, so we're allowed
* to ignore the result without jumping through hoops. */
write_all(pid_fd, pid, strlen(pid));
/* Leave file open: we close it implicitly when we exit */
}
/* Yuck, we need globals here. */
/*~ Yuck, we need a global here.
*
* ccan/io allows overriding the poll() function for special effects: for
* lightningd, we make sure we haven't left a db transaction open. All
* daemons which use ccan/io add sanity checks in this loop, so we chain
* that after our own override.
*/
static int (*io_poll_debug)(struct pollfd *, nfds_t, int);
static int io_poll_lightningd(struct pollfd *fds, nfds_t nfds, int timeout)
{
@ -302,8 +485,12 @@ static int io_poll_lightningd(struct pollfd *fds, nfds_t nfds, int timeout)
return io_poll_debug(fds, nfds, timeout);
}
void notify_new_block(struct lightningd *ld,
u32 block_height)
/*~ Ever had one of those functions which doesn't quite fit anywhere? Me too.
* Implementing a generic notifier framework is overkill in a static codebase
* like this, and it's always better to have compile-time calls than runtime,
* as it makes the code more explicit. But pasting in direct calls is also an
* abstraction violation, so we use this middleman function. */
void notify_new_block(struct lightningd *ld, u32 block_height)
{
/* Inform our subcomponents individually. */
htlcs_notify_new_block(ld, block_height);
@ -316,8 +503,18 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
u32 min_blockheight, max_blockheight;
int connectd_gossipd_fd;
/*~ What happens in strange locales should stay there. */
setup_locale();
/*~ Every daemon calls this in some form: the hooks are for dumping
* backtraces when we crash (if supported on this platform). */
daemon_setup(argv[0], log_backtrace_print, log_backtrace_exit);
/*~ There's always a battle between what a constructor like this
* should do, and what should be added later by the caller. In
* general, because we use valgrind heavily for testing, we prefer not
* to intialize unused fields which we expect the caller to set:
* valgrind will warn us if we make decisions based on uninitialized
* variables. */
ld = new_lightningd(NULL);
/* Figure out where our daemons are first. */
@ -325,56 +522,75 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
if (!ld->daemon_dir)
errx(1, "Could not find daemons");
/*~ The ccan/opt code requires registration then parsing; we
* mimic this API here, even though they're on separate lines.*/
register_opts(ld);
/* Handle options and config; move to .lightningd */
/*~ Handle options and config; move to .lightningd (--lightning-dir) */
handle_opts(ld, argc, argv);
/* Make sure we can reach other daemons, and versions match. */
/*~ Make sure we can reach the subdaemons, and versions match. */
test_subdaemons(ld);
/* Initialize wallet, now that we are in the correct directory */
/*~ Our "wallet" code really wraps the db, which is more than a simple
* bitcoin wallet (though it's that too). */
ld->wallet = wallet_new(ld, ld->log, &ld->timers);
/*~ We keep a filter of scriptpubkeys we're interested in. */
ld->owned_txfilter = txfilter_new(ld);
/* We do extra checks in io_loop. */
/*~ This is the ccan/io central poll override from above. */
io_poll_debug = io_poll_override(io_poll_lightningd);
/* Set up HSM. */
/*~ Set up HSM: it knows our node secret key, so tells us who we are. */
hsm_init(ld);
/* Now we know our ID, we can set our color/alias if not already. */
/*~ Our default color and alias are derived from our node id, so we
* can only set those now (if not set by config options). */
setup_color_and_alias(ld);
/* Set up connect daemon. */
/*~ Set up connect daemon: this manages receiving and making
* TCP connections. It needs to talk to the gossip daemon
* which knows (via node_announcement messages) the public
* addresses of nodes, so connectd_init hands it one end of a
* socket pair, and gives us the other */
connectd_gossipd_fd = connectd_init(ld);
/* Set up gossip daemon. */
/*~ The gossip daemon looks after the routing gossip;
* channel_announcement, channel_update, node_announcement and gossip
* queries. */
gossip_init(ld, connectd_gossipd_fd);
/* Everything is within a transaction. */
/*~ We do every database operation within a transaction; usually this
* is covered by the infrastructure (eg. opening a transaction before
* handling a message or expiring a timer), but for startup we do this
* explicitly. */
db_begin_transaction(ld->wallet->db);
/*~ Our default names, eg. for the database file, are not dependent on
* the network. Instead, the db knows what chain it belongs to, and we
* simple barf here if it's wrong. */
if (!wallet_network_check(ld->wallet, get_chainparams(ld)))
errx(1, "Wallet network check failed.");
/* Initialize the transaction filter with our pubkeys. */
/*~ Initialize the transaction filter with our pubkeys. */
init_txfilter(ld->wallet, ld->owned_txfilter);
/* Set up invoice autoclean. */
/*~ Set up invoice autoclean. */
wallet_invoice_autoclean(ld->wallet,
ld->ini_autocleaninvoice_cycle,
ld->ini_autocleaninvoice_expiredby);
/* Pull peers, channels and HTLCs from db. */
/*~ Pull peers, channels and HTLCs from db. */
load_channels_from_wallet(ld);
/* Get the blockheight we are currently at, UINT32_MAX is used to signal
/*~ Get the blockheight we are currently at, UINT32_MAX is used to signal
* an unitialized wallet and that we should start off of bitcoind's
* current height */
wallet_blocks_heights(ld->wallet, UINT32_MAX, &min_blockheight, &max_blockheight);
wallet_blocks_heights(ld->wallet, UINT32_MAX,
&min_blockheight, &max_blockheight);
/* If we were asked to rescan from an absolute height (--rescan < 0)
/*~ If we were asked to rescan from an absolute height (--rescan < 0)
* then just go there. Otherwise compute the diff to our current height,
* lowerbounded by 0. */
if (ld->config.rescan < 0)
@ -384,51 +600,80 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
else if (max_blockheight != UINT32_MAX)
max_blockheight -= ld->config.rescan;
/*~ That's all of the wallet db operations for now. */
db_commit_transaction(ld->wallet->db);
/* Initialize block topology (does its own transaction) */
setup_topology(ld->topology, &ld->timers, min_blockheight, max_blockheight);
/*~ Initialize block topology. This does its own io_loop to
* talk to bitcoind, so does its own db transactions. */
setup_topology(ld->topology, &ld->timers,
min_blockheight, max_blockheight);
/* Create RPC socket (if any) */
/*~ Create RPC socket (if any): now we can talk to clients. */
setup_jsonrpc(ld, ld->rpc_filename);
/* Now we're about to start, become daemon if desired. */
/*~ We defer --daemon until we've completed most initialization: that
* way we'll exit with an error rather than silently exiting 0, then
* realizing we can't start and forcing the confused user to read the
* logs. */
if (ld->daemon)
daemonize_but_keep_dir(ld);
/* Create PID file */
/*~ Now create the PID file: this has to be after daemonize, since that
* changes our pid! */
pidfile_create(ld);
/* Activate connect daemon. Needs to be after the initialization of
* chaintopology, otherwise we may be asking for uninitialized data. */
/*~ Activate connect daemon. Needs to be after the initialization of
* chaintopology, otherwise peers may connect and ask for
* uninitialized data. */
connectd_activate(ld);
/* Replay transactions for all running onchainds */
/*~ "onchaind" is a dumb daemon which tries to get our funds back: it
* doesn't handle reorganizations, but it's idempotent, so we can
* simply just restart it if the chain moves. Similarly, we replay it
* chain events from the database on restart, beginning with the
* "funding transaction spent" event which creates it. */
onchaind_replay_channels(ld);
/* Mark ourselves live. */
/*~ Mark ourselves live.
*
* Note the use of type_to_string() here: it's a typesafe formatter,
* often handed 'tmpctx' like here to allocate a throwaway string for
* formatting. json_escape() avoids printing weird characters in our
* log. And tal_hex() is a helper from utils which returns a hex string;
* it's assumed that the argument was allocated with tal or tal_arr
* so it can use tal_bytelen() to get the length. */
log_info(ld->log, "Server started with public key %s, alias %s (color #%s) and lightningd %s",
type_to_string(tmpctx, struct pubkey, &ld->id),
json_escape(tmpctx, (const char *)ld->alias)->s,
tal_hex(tmpctx, ld->rgb), version());
/* Start the peers. */
/*~ This is where we ask connectd to reconnect to any peers who have
* live channels with us, and makes sure we're watching the funding
* tx. */
activate_peers(ld);
/* Now kick off topology update, now peers have watches. */
/*~ Now that all the notifications for transactions are in place, we
* can start the poll loop which queries bitcoind for new blocks. */
begin_topology(ld->topology);
/* Activate crash log now we're not reporting startup failures. */
/*~ Setting this (global) activates the crash log: we don't usually need
* a backtrace if we fail during startup. */
crashlog = ld->log;
/*~ The root of every backtrace (almost). */
for (;;) {
/* ~io_loop returns if there's an expired timer, *or* someone
* calls io_break, or if there are no more IO connections
* (which never happens in our code). */
struct timer *expired;
void *v = io_loop(&ld->timers, &expired);
/* We use io_break(dstate) to shut down. */
/*~ We use io_break(ld) to shut down. */
if (v == ld)
break;
/*~ Notice that timers are called here in the event loop like
* anything else, so there are no weird concurrency issues. */
if (expired) {
db_begin_transaction(ld->wallet->db);
timer_expired(ld, expired);
@ -457,5 +702,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
memleak_cleanup();
#endif
daemon_shutdown();
/*~ Farewell. Next stop: hsmd/hsm.c. */
return 0;
}