more work towards diskstore bgsave

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Redis TODO
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DISKSTORE TODO
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* Check that 00/00 and ff/ff exist at startup, otherwise exit with error.
* Implement sync flush option, where data is written synchronously on disk when a command is executed.
* Implement MULTI/EXEC as transaction abstract API to diskstore.c, with transaction_start, transaction_end, and a journal to recover.
* Stop BGSAVE thread on shutdown and any other condition where the child is killed during normal bgsave.
* Use a mutex to log on the file, so that we don't get overlapping messages, or even better make sure to use a single write against it.
* Fix RANDOMKEY to really do something interesting
* Fix DBSIZE to really do something interesting
* Add a DEBUG command to check if an entry is or not in memory currently

REPLICATION
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* PING between master and slave from time to time, so we can subject the
master-slave link to timeout, and detect when the connection is gone even
if the socket is still up.

OPTIMIZATIONS
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* SORT: Don't copy the list into a vector when BY argument is constant.
* Write the hash table size of every db in the dump, so that Redis can resize the hash table just one time when loading a big DB.
* Read-only mode for slaves.

KNOWN BUGS
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* What happens in the following scenario:
    1) We are reading an AOF file.
    2) SETEX FOO 5 BAR
    3) APPEND FOO ZAP
    What happens if between 1 and 2 for some reason (system under huge load
    or alike) too many time passes? We should prevent expires while the
    AOF is loading.