This adds a `TcpStream::connect_timeout` function in order to assist opening
connections with a timeout (cc #13523). There isn't really much design space for
this specific operation (unlike timing out normal blocking reads/writes), so I
am fairly confident that this is the correct interface for this function.
The function is marked #[experimental] because it takes a u64 timeout argument,
and the u64 type is likely to change in the future.
Rust advertises itself as being compatible with linux 2.6.18, but the timerfd
set of syscalls weren't added until linux 2.6.25. There is no real need for a
specialized timer implementation beyond being a "little more accurate", but the
select() implementation will suffice for now.
If it is later deemed that an accurate timerfd implementation is needed, it can
be added then through some method which will allow the standard distribution to
continue to be compatible with 2.6.18
Closes#13447