init: work around the mother of all race conditions #30
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ebpf-go CI has been plagued by sporadic hangs, where tests simply time out while trying to write status information to stdout.
The bug manifests when issuing blocking writes to a virtio console while also polling it. The way we trigger the bug is quite involved:
We now enter the race window.
At this point we still have a writer stuck in port_fops_write() waiting for a wakeup that never comes.
The workaround for this issue is to close the stdio file in init, thereby removing it from the runtime poller.
Fixes: #29