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Unexpected deliveries could block indefinitely if they arrived at the right time. The fix is to ensure that the cancellation channel is always closed when the sync ends, unblocking any deliveries. Also remove the atomic check for whether a sync is currently running because it doesn't help and can be misleading. Cancelling always seems to break the tests though. The downloader spawned d.process whenever new data arrived, making it somewhat hard to track when block processing was actually done. Fix this by running d.process in a dedicated goroutine that is tied to the lifecycle of the sync. d.process gets notified of new work by the queue instead of being invoked all the time. This removes a ton of weird workaround code, including a hairy use of atomic CAS.
Ethereum Go
Official golang implementation of the Ethereum protocol
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Automated development builds
The following builds are build automatically by our build servers after each push to the develop branch.
Building the source
For prerequisites and detailed build instructions please read the Installation Instructions on the wiki.
Building geth requires two external dependencies, Go and GMP. You can install them using your favourite package manager. Once the dependencies are installed, run
make geth
Executables
Go Ethereum comes with several wrappers/executables found in
the cmd directory:
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geth |
Ethereum CLI (ethereum command line interface client) |
bootnode |
runs a bootstrap node for the Discovery Protocol |
ethtest |
test tool which runs with the tests suite: /path/to/test.json > ethtest --test BlockTests --stdin. |
evm |
is a generic Ethereum Virtual Machine: evm -code 60ff60ff -gas 10000 -price 0 -dump. See -h for a detailed description. |
disasm |
disassembles EVM code: `echo "6001" |
rlpdump |
prints RLP structures |
Command line options
geth can be configured via command line options, environment variables and config files.
To get the options available:
geth help
For further details on options, see the wiki
Contribution
If you'd like to contribute to go-ethereum please fork, fix, commit and
send a pull request. Commits who do not comply with the coding standards
are ignored (use gofmt!). If you send pull requests make absolute sure that you
commit on the develop branch and that you do not merge to master.
Commits that are directly based on master are simply ignored.
See Developers' Guide for more details on configuring your environment, testing, and dependency management.