pkt-line: add PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_READ_ERROR option

Introduce PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_READ_ERROR option to help libify the
packet readers.

So far, the (possibly indirect) callers of `get_packet_data()` can ask
that function to return an error instead of `die()`ing upon end-of-file.
However, random read errors will still cause the process to die.

So let's introduce an explicit option to tell the packet reader
machinery to please be nice and only return an error on read errors.

This change prepares pkt-line for use by long-running daemon processes.
Such processes should be able to serve multiple concurrent clients and
and survive random IO errors.  If there is an error on one connection,
a daemon should be able to drop that connection and continue serving
existing and future connections.

This ability will be used by a Git-aware "Builtin FSMonitor" feature
in a later patch series.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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