RUN_WITH_UMASK was initially conceived for spawning externals progs with the
umask set. But nowadays we use it various syscalls and stuff that doesn't "run"
anything, so the "RUN_" prefix has outlived its usefulness.
This was a trivial wrapper that didn't provide any added value. With more
complicated structures like strvs, hashmaps, sets, and arrays, it is possible
to have an empty container. But in case of a list, the list is empty only when
the head is missing.
Also, we generally want the positive condition, so we replace many
if (!LIST_IS_EMPTY(x)) with just if (x).
Coccinelle can't do this automagically and requires we supply it
respective header files. Unfortunately, the option for this
(--macro-file=) can be used only once, so let's create our own
macro file by collecting macros needed for the semantic parser
to be happy.
