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Add retries to LALInferenceMCMC checkpointing

John Douglas Veitch requested to merge john-veitch/lalsuite:lalinfmcmc_retry_checkpoint into master

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This is an attempt to make MCMC checkpointing more robust. If file IO errors prevent checkpointing, retry after a delay, up to ten times. The delay gets progressively longer with each attempt.

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