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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 08:15:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHLa0O98nfdiewzk-QV_Xw5ytVjas=pW9s2Gxjik7x+ttZFng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP2UFMDJ+88MU=RTyU4FV_HCHwuHLmd5S9aK2AZ7DJ+j7g@mail.gmail.com>

getutxos is a special case, since we already maintain that index as
part of normal operation.

While I dislike some aspects of getutxos (covered elsewhere), if
merged, it would be more appropriate as a special case to keep
getutxos fully internal to bitcoind for implementation reasons.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> wrote:
>> Something like `getutxos` or this proposal could be implemented as an
>> external application or script, instead of having to integrate
>> everything into bitcoind.
>
>
> Right, although getutxos needs access to the UTXO set which bitcoind already
> has. An external plugin would have to recalculate it from scratch which
> seems redundant.
>
> However there are many other useful services that could be added in such a
> way, like -txindex or the nLockTime storage facility we talked about the
> other day.
>
>>
>> Bitcoind would need a local interprocess message bus for that
>
>
> Maybe, that feels like it could be overkill though. Probably just something
> like
>
> ./bitcoind -servicecookie=<long random string> -allowextservices=127.0.0.1/8
>
> and then any program can connect to bitcoind as normal, send "registersrv"
> with the cookie and a list of command ids it's interested in, maybe a
> service bit to set, and start receiving those messages wrapped in a new
> structure that gives some kind of client ID (like IP address). So any
> library that can do the basic P2P protocol could then be extended with not
> much code to get a multiplexed stream of messages from different clients.
>
> An additional standalone program can then bridge this mechanism to running a
> shell command for particular messages, though given the history of shell
> based exploits I'd feel safer with something that doesn't do that ....



-- 
Jeff Garzik
Bitcoin core developer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/



  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-08 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-08  3:38 [Bitcoin-development] NODE_EXT_SERVICES and advertising related services Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08  9:45 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08  9:56   ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 10:01     ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 10:15       ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 10:26         ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 10:41           ` Christian Decker
2014-08-08 11:22             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 11:33       ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 11:38         ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 11:59           ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 12:06             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 12:11             ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 12:15               ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 12:11             ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 12:15               ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2014-08-08 12:16               ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 12:34               ` Wladimir
2014-08-08 13:55                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-08-08 12:04           ` Jeff Garzik
2014-08-08 12:13             ` Mike Hearn

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