Samuel Dobson e9d6eb1b80
Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22217: refactor: Avoid wallet code writing node settings file
49ee2a0ad88e0e656234b769d806987784ff1e28 Avoid wallet code writing node settings file (Russell Yanofsky)

Pull request description:

  Change wallet loading code to access settings through the Chain interface instead of writing settings.json directly. This is for running wallet and node in separate processes, since multiprocess code wouldn't easily work with different processes updating the same file.

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  This PR is part of the [process separation project](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/projects/10). The commit was first part of larger PR #10102.

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src/node/

The src/node/ directory contains code that needs to access node state (state in CChain, CBlockIndex, CCoinsView, CTxMemPool, and similar classes).

Code in src/node/ is meant to be segregated from code in src/wallet/ and src/qt/, to ensure wallet and GUI code changes don't interfere with node operation, to allow wallet and GUI code to run in separate processes, and to perhaps eventually allow wallet and GUI code to be maintained in separate source repositories.

As a rule of thumb, code in one of the src/node/, src/wallet/, or src/qt/ directories should avoid calling code in the other directories directly, and only invoke it indirectly through the more limited src/interfaces/ classes.

This directory is at the moment sparsely populated. Eventually more substantial files like src/validation.cpp and src/txmempool.cpp might be moved there.