The following functions were previously reimplemented in OCaml. This
commit replaces them with calls to the C functions:
- is_root_device
- prog_exists
- udev_settle
plus the internal get_verbose_flag function.
However note that we cannot do this for every utility function. In
particular the C function must not call any reply* functions.
This change allows parts of the daemon to be written in the OCaml
programming language. I am using the ‘Main Program in C’ method along
with ‘-output-obj’ to create an object file from the OCaml code /
runtime, as described here:
https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/intfc.html
Furthermore, change the generator to allow individual APIs to be
implemented in OCaml. This is picked by setting:
impl = OCaml <ocaml_function>;
The generator creates ‘do_function’ (the same one you would have to
write by hand in C), with the function calling the named
‘ocaml_function’ and dealing with marshalling/unmarshalling the OCaml
parameters.
