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W. J. van der Laan 1884ce2f4c
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22937: refactor: Forbid calling unsafe fs::path(std::string) constructor and fs::path::string() method
6544ea5035 refactor: Block unsafe fs::path std::string conversion calls (Russell Yanofsky)
b39a477ec6 refactor: Add fs::PathToString, fs::PathFromString, u8string, u8path functions (Russell Yanofsky)

Pull request description:

  The `fs::path` class has a `std::string` constructor which will implicitly convert from strings. Implicit conversions like this are not great in general because they can hide complexity and inefficiencies in the code, but this case is especially bad, because after the transition from `boost::filesystem` to `std::filesystem` in #20744 the behavior of this constructor on windows will be more complicated and can mangle path strings. The `fs::path` class also has a `.string()` method which is inverse of the constructor and has the same problems.

  Fix this by replacing the unsafe method calls with `PathToString` and `PathFromString` function calls, and by forbidding unsafe method calls in the future.

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  kiminuo:
    ACK 6544ea5035
  laanwj:
    Code review ACK 6544ea5035
  hebasto:
    re-ACK 6544ea5035, only added `fsbridge_stem` test case, updated comment, and rebased since my [previous](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22937#pullrequestreview-765503126) review. Verified with the following command:

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ci Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#20487: Add syscall sandboxing using seccomp-bpf (Linux secure computing mode) 2021-10-04 22:45:43 +02:00
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depends build: set OSX_MIN_VERSION to 10.15 2021-09-16 17:50:19 +08:00
doc Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#23093: Add ability to flush keypool and always flush when upgrading non-HD to HD 2021-10-14 18:05:58 +02:00
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.python-version Bump minimum python version to 3.6 2020-11-09 17:53:47 +10:00
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INSTALL.md doc: Added hyperlink for doc/build 2021-09-09 19:53:12 +05:30
libbitcoinconsensus.pc.in build: remove libcrypto as internal dependency in libbitcoinconsensus.pc 2019-11-19 15:03:44 +01:00
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README.md doc: Rework internal and external links 2021-02-17 09:18:46 +01:00
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Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

https://bitcoincore.org

For an immediately usable, binary version of the Bitcoin Core software, see https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/.

Further information about Bitcoin Core is available in the doc folder.

What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone, anywhere in the world. Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. Bitcoin Core is the name of open source software which enables the use of this currency.

For more information read the original Bitcoin whitepaper.

License

Bitcoin Core is released under the terms of the MIT license. See COPYING for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.

Development Process

The master branch is regularly built (see doc/build-*.md for instructions) and tested, but it is not guaranteed to be completely stable. Tags are created regularly from release branches to indicate new official, stable release versions of Bitcoin Core.

The https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui repository is used exclusively for the development of the GUI. Its master branch is identical in all monotree repositories. Release branches and tags do not exist, so please do not fork that repository unless it is for development reasons.

The contribution workflow is described in CONTRIBUTING.md and useful hints for developers can be found in doc/developer-notes.md.

Testing

Testing and code review is the bottleneck for development; we get more pull requests than we can review and test on short notice. Please be patient and help out by testing other people's pull requests, and remember this is a security-critical project where any mistake might cost people lots of money.

Automated Testing

Developers are strongly encouraged to write unit tests for new code, and to submit new unit tests for old code. Unit tests can be compiled and run (assuming they weren't disabled in configure) with: make check. Further details on running and extending unit tests can be found in /src/test/README.md.

There are also regression and integration tests, written in Python. These tests can be run (if the test dependencies are installed) with: test/functional/test_runner.py

The CI (Continuous Integration) systems make sure that every pull request is built for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and that unit/sanity tests are run automatically.

Manual Quality Assurance (QA) Testing

Changes should be tested by somebody other than the developer who wrote the code. This is especially important for large or high-risk changes. It is useful to add a test plan to the pull request description if testing the changes is not straightforward.

Translations

Changes to translations as well as new translations can be submitted to Bitcoin Core's Transifex page.

Translations are periodically pulled from Transifex and merged into the git repository. See the translation process for details on how this works.

Important: We do not accept translation changes as GitHub pull requests because the next pull from Transifex would automatically overwrite them again.