Function main

gossipd/gossipd.c:587–626

}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	struct daemon *daemon;
	bool developer;

	setup_locale();

	developer = subdaemon_setup(argc, argv);

	daemon = tal(NULL, struct daemon);
	daemon->developer = developer;
	daemon->peers = new_htable(daemon, peer_node_id_map);
	daemon->deferred_txouts = tal_arr(daemon, struct short_channel_id, 0);
	daemon->current_blockheight = 0; /* i.e. unknown */

	/* Note the use of time_mono() here.  That's a monotonic clock, which
	 * is really useful: it can only be used to measure relative events
	 * (there's no correspondence to time-since-Ken-grew-a-beard or
	 * anything), but unlike time_now, this will never jump backwards by
	 * half a second and leave me wondering how my tests failed CI! */
	timers_init(&daemon->timers, time_mono());

	/* Our daemons always use STDIN for commands from lightningd. */
	daemon->master = daemon_conn_new(daemon, STDIN_FILENO,
					 recv_req, NULL, daemon);
	tal_add_destructor(daemon->master, master_or_connectd_gone);

	status_setup_async(daemon->master);

	/* This loop never exits.  io_loop() only returns if a timer has
	 * expired, or io_break() is called, or all fds are closed.  We don't
	 * use io_break and closing the lightningd fd calls master_gone()
	 * which exits. */
	for (;;) {
		struct timer *expired = NULL;
		io_loop(&daemon->timers, &expired);

		timer_expired(expired);
	}
}

/*~ Note that the production of the gossip_store file is in gossmap_manage.c
 * and gossip_store.c, and the (highly optimized!)  read side is in