Move profiles.{cc,hh} to libstore

src/libstore/profiles.hh

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+#pragma once
+
+#include "types.hh"
+#include "pathlocks.hh"
+
+#include <time.h>
+
+
+namespace nix {
+
+
+struct Generation
+{
+    int number;
+    Path path;
+    time_t creationTime;
+    Generation()
+    {
+        number = -1;
+    }
+    operator bool() const
+    {
+        return number != -1;
+    }
+};
+
+typedef list<Generation> Generations;
+
+
+/* Returns the list of currently present generations for the specified
+   profile, sorted by generation number. */
+Generations findGenerations(Path profile, int & curGen);
+    
+Path createGeneration(Path profile, Path outPath);
+
+void deleteGeneration(const Path & profile, unsigned int gen);
+
+void switchLink(Path link, Path target);
+
+/* Ensure exclusive access to a profile.  Any command that modifies
+   the profile first acquires this lock. */
+void lockProfile(PathLocks & lock, const Path & profile);
+
+/* Optimistic locking is used by long-running operations like `nix-env
+   -i'.  Instead of acquiring the exclusive lock for the entire
+   duration of the operation, we just perform the operation
+   optimistically (without an exclusive lock), and check at the end
+   whether the profile changed while we were busy (i.e., the symlink
+   target changed).  If so, the operation is restarted.  Restarting is
+   generally cheap, since the build results are still in the Nix
+   store.  Most of the time, only the user environment has to be
+   rebuilt. */
+string optimisticLockProfile(const Path & profile);
+
+}