The advantage here is that we no longer have to use a futures-aware
Mutex, or a blocking send operation, and therefore can simplify a
bunch of the GuardMgr APIs to no longer be async. That'll avoid
having to propagate the asyncness up the stack.
The disadvantage is that unbounded channels are just that: nothing
in the channel prevents us from overfilling it. Fortunately, the
process that consumes from the channel shouldn't block much, and
the channel only gets filled when we're planning a circuit path.
Also, refactor our message handling to be more like the tor_proto
reactors. The previous code had a bug where, once the stream of
events was exhausted, we wouldn't actually get any more
notifications.
There are some missing parts here (like persistence and tests)
and some incorrect parts (I am 90% sure that the "exploratory
circuit" flag is bogus). Also it is not integrated with the circuit
manager code.
Nick Mathewson