We want to make sure that we don't break old torrc files that might have
used something like this made-up example:
ContactInfo UberUser <uber@user.com> # /// Fake email! \\\
Log info file /home/nick.mathewson/projects/tor-info.log
And we also want to support the following style of writing your torrc:
ExcludeNodes \
# Node1337 is run by the Bavarian Illuminati
Node1337, \
# The operator of Node99 looked at me funny
Node99
The code already handles both cases, but the unit test should help prove
it.
Roger correctly pointed out that my code was broken for accounting
periods that shifted forwards, since
start_of_accounting_period_containing(interval_start_time) would not
be equal to interval_start_time, but potentially much earlier.
Do not double-report signatures from unrecognized authorities both as
"from unknown authority" and "not present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on
0.2.2.16-alpha.
Our attempt to make compilation work on old versions of Windows
again while keeping wince compatibility broke the build for Win2k+.
helix reports this patch fixes the issue for WinXP. Bugfix on
0.2.2.15-alpha; related to bug 1797.
When the CellStatistics option is off, we don't store cell insertion
times. Doing so would also not be very smart, because there seem to
still be some performance issues with this type of statistics. Nothing
harmful happens when we don't have insertion times, so we don't need to
alarm the user.
Previously[*], the function would start with the first stream on the
circuit, and let it package as many cells as it wanted before
proceeding to the next stream in turn. If a circuit had many live
streams that all wanted to package data, the oldest would get
preference, and the newest would get ignored.
Now, we figure out how many cells we're willing to send per stream,
and try to allocate them fairly.
Roger diagnosed this in the comments for bug 1298.
[*] This bug has existed since before the first-ever public release
of Tor. It was added by r152 of Tor on 26 Jan 2003, which was
the first commit to implement streams (then called "topics").
This is not the oldest bug to be fixed in 0.2.2.x: that honor
goes to the windowing bug in r54, which got fixed in e50b7768 by
Roger with diagnosis by Karsten. This is, however, the most
long-lived bug to be fixed in 0.2.2.x: the r54 bug was fixed
2580 days after it was introduced, whereas I am writing this
commit message 2787 days after r152.
I'm going to use this to implement more fairness in
circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper in an attempt to fix bug 1298.
(Updated with fixes from arma and Sebastian)
An authority should never download a consensus if it has a live one,
but when it doesn't, it should admit that it's not going to get one,
and see if anybody else can give it one.
Fixes 1300, fix on 0.2.0.9-alpha
Nick Mathewson
Sebastian Hahn
Roger Dingledine
John Brooks
Robert Hogan