Use non-blocking timerfd to prevent blocking when updating timer event sources
This implements a simple fix for the blocking problem that occurs when updating a timer event source after the timer expires, but before its callback is dispatched. This can happen when another event happens during the same epoll wakeup as the timer event, and causes the read() call in wl_event_source_timer_dispatch() to block for the updated duration of the timer. We never want this read() call to block, so I believe it makes sense for the timerfd to be non-blocking, and we simply ignore the case where the read fails with EAGAIN. We still report all other errors as before, and still ignore the actual value read from the socket. With this change, the event_loop_timer_updates unit test case I submitted previously now passes, and weston appears to work as before.
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