Merge #15367: feature: Added ability for users to add a startup command

090530cc24054d6b4658752bb88f75a3b73eab5d feature: Added ability for users to add a startup command (Ben Carman)

Pull request description:

  Thoughts for adding the feature is for users to be able to add things like electrum-personal-server or lnd to run whenever Bitcoin Core is running.  Open to feedback about the feature.

ACKs for top commit:
  MarcoFalke:
    re-ACK 090530cc24
  dongcarl:
    tACK 090530c

Tree-SHA512: ba514d2fc8b4fb12b781c1a9c89845a25fce0b80ba7c907761cde4abb81edd03fa643682edc895986dc20b273ac3b95769508806db7fbd99ec28623f85c41e67

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 5ad807cbac..e5713e47aa 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -422,6 +422,9 @@ void SetupServerArgs(NodeContext& node)
     argsman.AddArg("-reindex", "Rebuild chain state and block index from the blk*.dat files on disk", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-reindex-chainstate", "Rebuild chain state from the currently indexed blocks. When in pruning mode or if blocks on disk might be corrupted, use full -reindex instead.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
     argsman.AddArg("-settings=<file>", strprintf("Specify path to dynamic settings data file. Can be disabled with -nosettings. File is written at runtime and not meant to be edited by users (use %s instead for custom settings). Relative paths will be prefixed by datadir location. (default: %s)", BITCOIN_CONF_FILENAME, BITCOIN_SETTINGS_FILENAME), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+#if HAVE_SYSTEM
+    argsman.AddArg("-startupnotify=<cmd>", "Execute command on startup.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
+#endif
 #ifndef WIN32
     argsman.AddArg("-sysperms", "Create new files with system default permissions, instead of umask 077 (only effective with disabled wallet functionality)", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::OPTIONS);
 #else
@@ -674,6 +677,17 @@ static void CleanupBlockRevFiles()
     }
 }
 
+#if HAVE_SYSTEM
+static void StartupNotify(const ArgsManager& args)
+{
+    std::string cmd = args.GetArg("-startupnotify", "");
+    if (!cmd.empty()) {
+        std::thread t(runCommand, cmd);
+        t.detach(); // thread runs free
+    }
+}
+#endif
+
 static void ThreadImport(ChainstateManager& chainman, std::vector<fs::path> vImportFiles, const ArgsManager& args)
 {
     const CChainParams& chainparams = Params();
@@ -1973,5 +1987,9 @@ bool AppInitMain(const util::Ref& context, NodeContext& node, interfaces::BlockA
         banman->DumpBanlist();
     }, DUMP_BANS_INTERVAL);
 
+#if HAVE_SYSTEM
+    StartupNotify(args);
+#endif
+
     return true;
 }