This change improves clock management for zcashd by ensuring
that all clock methods (obtaining seconds, milliseconds, and
microseconds since the epoch) agree under testing conditions
using `-mocktime`, and also adds a feature that allows tests
to specify an offset to the system clock; this is useful to
allow comprehensive testing of the "timejacking attack mitigation"
consensus rules.
That is, without having to launch with test_runner.py. There are
several places where the BITCOIND environment variable determines the
executable, but the default is "bitcoind"; change the default to
"src/zcashd". This does require running the test from the top-level
directory.
Also change the environment variable from BITCOIND to ZCASHD. This could
conceivable break someone, but it just makes too much sense not to do.
Also fixes a bug in the `nuparams` helper, which would have caused MSB
zeroes in consensus branch IDs to not be rendered in the `-nuparams`
option. This hadn't been encountered because we haven't yet generated a
consensus branch ID with a zero MSB.
This includes:
- `orchard =0.1.0-beta.3` which includes the final circuit changes.
- The new NU5 consensus branch ID.
- Updated ZIP 244 test vectors (which use the NU5 consensus branch ID).
Previously these functions would infinitely loop if sync failed;
now they have a default timeout of 60 seconds, after which an
AssertionError is raised.
sync_blocks() has also been improved and now compares the tip
hash of each node, rather than just using block count.
Zcash: Kept block count check for a couple of tests where we use it.
These are text files but their encoding does not depend on the locale.
Not all of them require utf8 but it is better to fix it at something
to remove potential unpredictability.
This is necessary on FreeBSD where no locale is set by default,
and apparently Python defaults not only the terminal encoding to the locale
but that of every text file. So without LOCALE environment it defaults text
file encoding to ASCII. This causes problems with e.g. `bitcoin.conf`.
Luckily the locale doesn't affect the default encoding for str.encode() and
bytes.decode() on Python 3, so this is the only change necessary.
Replace the `bitcoin-cli -rpcwait` after spawning bitcoind
with our own loop that detects when bitcoind exits prematurely.
And if one node fails to start, stop the others.
This prevents a hang in such a case (see #7463).
Thanks to @MarcoFalke @dexX7 @laanwj for review.
Zcash: Includes all the backend changes, but excludes the --coverage flag
added to rpc-tests.py as we have not yet migrated away from rpc-tests.sh.