From 196af01707a5f9193367a32091bd5cb602fe4b6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ethan Buchman <ethan@coinculture.info>
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 00:43:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] maxTxs=-1 for Reap to return empty

---
 mempool/mempool.go | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mempool/mempool.go b/mempool/mempool.go
index 46e71f4e8..0fab674bf 100644
--- a/mempool/mempool.go
+++ b/mempool/mempool.go
@@ -201,10 +201,12 @@ func (mem *Mempool) Reap(maxTxs int) []types.Tx {
 	return txs
 }
 
-// maxTxs: 0 means uncapped
+// maxTxs: 0 means uncapped, -1 means none
 func (mem *Mempool) collectTxs(maxTxs int) []types.Tx {
 	if maxTxs == 0 {
 		maxTxs = mem.txs.Len()
+	} else if maxTxs < 0 {
+		return []types.Tx{}
 	}
 	txs := make([]types.Tx, 0, MinInt(mem.txs.Len(), maxTxs))
 	for e := mem.txs.Front(); e != nil && len(txs) < maxTxs; e = e.Next() {