Add cleaner line-by-line reading primitives

Two places in passt need to read files line by line (one parsing
resolv.conf, the other parsing /proc/net/*.  They can't use fgets()
because in glibc that can allocate memory.  Instead they use an
implementation line_read() in util.c.  This has some problems:

 * It has two completely separate modes of operation, one buffering
   and one not, the relation between these and how they're activated
   is subtle and confusing
 * At least in non-buffered mode, it will mishandle an empty line,
   folding them onto the start of the next non-empty line
 * In non-buffered mode it will use lseek() which prevents using this
   on non-regular files (we don't need that at present, but it's a
   surprising limitation)
 * It has a lot of difficult to read pointer mangling

Add a new cleaner implementation of allocation-free line-by-line
reading in lineread.c.  This one always buffers, using a state
structure to keep track of what we need.  This is larger than I'd
like, but it turns out handling all the edge cases of line-by-line
reading in C is surprisingly hard.

This just adds the code, subsequent patches will change the existing
users of line_read() to the new implementation.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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