Make HTTP server shutdown more graceful

Shutting down the HTTP server currently breaks off all current requests.
This can create a race condition with RPC `stop` command, where the calling
process never receives confirmation.

This change removes the listening sockets on shutdown so that no new
requests can come in, but no longer breaks off requests in progress.

Meant to fix #6717.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/rpcserver.cpp b/src/rpcserver.cpp
index b831d3d3b2..dbee61efc8 100644
--- a/src/rpcserver.cpp
+++ b/src/rpcserver.cpp
@@ -243,7 +243,8 @@ UniValue stop(const UniValue& params, bool fHelp)
         throw runtime_error(
             "stop\n"
             "\nStop Bitcoin server.");
-    // Shutdown will take long enough that the response should get back
+    // Event loop will exit after current HTTP requests have been handled, so
+    // this reply will get back to the client.
     StartShutdown();
     return "Bitcoin server stopping";
 }