I wante to hide it inside the library, but it is good to have a single
place to verify that the client was permitted to send a message we are
handling, so make it officially part of the interface by prefixing it.
These are currently just shims that replicate the old behavior, but
when compiling as a library we can relink the status_* functions to
something that makes sense in the context of the user, and not assume
we're running as a subdaemon.
