We added some code in 0b3a283586
to explicitly hold strong refs for all tasks/futures. At the time I was uncertain if that also solves
GC issues with asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe.
ref https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/9608#issuecomment-2703681663
Looks like it does. run_coroutine_threadsafe *is* going through the custom task factory.
See the unit test.
The somewhat confusing thing is that we need a few event loop iterations for the task factory to run,
due to how run_coroutine_threadsafe is implemented. And also, the task that we will hold as strong ref
in the global set is not the concurrent.futures.Future that run_coroutine_threadsafe returns.
So this commit simply "fixes" the unit test so that it showcases this, and removes related, older, plumbing
from util.py that we now know is no longer needed because of this.
The messages are sometimes logged and sometimes shown to the user,
- for logging we might not want to truncate or have higher limits,
- but when shown to the user, we definitely want to truncate the error text.
It is simplest to just do the truncation here, at the lowest level.
Note that we usually prepend the error text with a header e.g. "[DO NOT TRUST THIS MESSAGE]"
and if the error text is too long, this header at the beginning might get "lost" in some way.
Hence we should truncate the error text.
