The idea here is to preserve the history of `dev` branch development and its
code when merging with the `master`. Later this code could be moved into the
masters code where appropriate.
And make the node fail gracefully if it's unable to bind. Before this commit:
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Server is starting up
Connection manager started
Error connecting to outbound listen tcp 127.0.0.1:20332: bind: address already in use
We have connected successfully to: 127.0.0.1:20334
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x28 pc=0x6bbfa2]
goroutine 12 [running]:
github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/connmgr.New.func1.1(0x0, 0x0)
/home/rik/dev/neo-go/pkg/connmgr/connmgr.go:47 +0x22
panic(0x718980, 0xa22f70)
/usr/lib64/go/1.12/src/runtime/panic.go:522 +0x1b5
github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/connmgr.New.func1(0xc000013430, 0xc000013450, 0xc000013440, 0xc0005265f0, 0xf, 0x0)
/home/rik/dev/neo-go/pkg/connmgr/connmgr.go:52 +0x15e
created by github.com/CityOfZion/neo-go/pkg/connmgr.New
/home/rik/dev/neo-go/pkg/connmgr/connmgr.go:38 +0xfe
exit status 2
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After this commit:
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listen tcp 127.0.0.1:20332: bind: address already in use
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