Start to centralise the I/O manager hooks from other bits of the RTS
It is currently rather difficult to understand or work with the various I/O manager implementations. This is for a few reasons: 1. They do not have a clear or common API. There are some common function names, but a lot of things just get called directly. 2. They have hooks into many other parts of the RTS where they get called from. 3. There is a _lot_ of CPP involved, both THREADED_RTS vs !THREADED_RTS and also mingw32_HOST_OS vs !mingw32_HOST_OS. This doesn't really identify the I/O manager implementation. 4. They have data structures with unclear ownership, or that are co-owned with other components like the scheduler. Some data structures are used by multiple I/O managers. One thing that would help is if the interface between the I/O managers and the rest of the RTS was clearer, even if it was not completely uniform. Centralising it would make it easier to see how to reduce any unnecessary diversity in the interfaces. This patch makes a start by creating a new IOManager.{h,c} module. It is initially empty, but we will move things into it in subsequent patches.
rts/IOManager.c
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rts/IOManager.h
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