In case of a multi shard payment with more than one in-flight shards,
one shard quitting with a terminal failure will stop the payment
lifecycle and close the `shardHandler`'s `quit` channel. In the
`collectResult` function we're waiting for the `Switch` to
asynchronously return a result for each shard. This may have been
interrupted by the aformentioned `quit` channel's closing skipping
attempt failure (or success) notification towards the control tower
and therefore skipping proper settle/fail info fill in the channel db.
Since payments have a composite state of a global failure reason and
settle/fail info for all attempts, any attempt with an unfilled
settle/fail info keeps a payment in-flight even if the payment itself
isn't in-flight anymore.
The routing package implements authentication+validation of channel
announcements, pruning of the channel graph, path finding within the network,
sending outgoing payments into the network and synchronizing new peers to our
channel graph state.
Installation and Updating
⛰ go get -u github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/routing