FileHandle: Change from boxed to Arc. #1415
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Changing from a Box to an Arc would
allow for a user of tantivy to manage file handles outside of tantivy
and be able to manage their life cycle.
I'm currently working with tantivy and one of the thing I wanted to do was to manage file access outside of tantivy in a way that file access is abstracted completely from tantivy. I got everything working on my end, but I needed to make this change to tantivy because I needed shared ownership of a given FileHandle.
I believe this change is safe to other user of tantivy, but I am new to both Tantivy & Rust, so maybe there's something else that needs to change to make this happen.