Bob McElrath

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Race condition between ZMQ UpdateTip and getblocktemplate

Why cannot these results be consistent? Isn't that the purpose of a mutex on the Chainstate? It's not clear to me why there "obviously can't" be multi-threaded consistency on the...

Race condition between ZMQ UpdateTip and getblocktemplate

Working on a stale block is exactly the problem here, because of inconsistent responses. I think we have a miscommunication here... It sound like you're saying there's no way to...

Race condition between ZMQ UpdateTip and getblocktemplate

@sipa we're planning on switching to the new IPC mechanism anyway, that StratumV2 is also using. Do you have any comments about synchronicity in that context? FWIW I think I'm...

Race condition between ZMQ UpdateTip and getblocktemplate

@mzumsande you are right. Apparently I failed to scroll up in the log. There was several tips announced simultaneously and this is absolutely due to a previous invocation of `getblocktemplate`....