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1// Copyright (c) 2023-present The Bitcoin Core developers
2// Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
3// file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
4
5#ifndef BITCOIN_NODE_ABORT_H
6#define BITCOIN_NODE_ABORT_H
7
8#include <atomic>
9#include <functional>
10
11struct bilingual_str;
12
13namespace node {
14class Warnings;
15void AbortNode(const std::function<bool()>& shutdown_request, std::atomic<int>& exit_status, const bilingual_str& message, node::Warnings* warnings);
16} // namespace node
17
18#endif // BITCOIN_NODE_ABORT_H
19

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The fatal-error reporting interface

This declaration lets node components report a fatal message without embedding the shutdown implementation in each caller.

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Supply the shutdown mechanism and shared status

The caller provides a callback, atomic exit status, bilingual message and optional warnings pointer. Passing no shutdown callback still permits failure reporting. The interface does not guarantee that process shutdown has completed when the function returns.

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