We seem to have deadlock bugs in our RPC system, most likely inherited from ZEC or BTC.
Since some Hush RPC's take longer (such as anything with Sietch protections), the deadlocks
are more likely to occur. Eventually all RPC slots are used up and no more RPC commands
can be sent to hushd. This is why the "plz_stop" feature was implemented, but that is just
a workaround to restart the server. We must find and fix the root cause.
This rpc will allow us to see when we are getting close to our maximum work queue depth
and hopefully help us learn exactly what is happening.
Any projects which want to use Hush code from now on will need to be licensed as
GPLv3 or we will send the lawyers: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/
Notably, Komodo (KMD) is licensed as GPLv2 and is no longer compatible to receive
code changes, without causing legal issues. MIT projects, such as Zcash, also cannot pull
in changes from the Hush Full Node without permission from The Hush Developers,
which may in some circumstances grant an MIT license on a case-by-case basis.
Duke
