gst-remote tool

This patch implements the beginnings of a remote control
tool for GNU 
Smalltalk.  It is based on Mike Anderson's GSTI project from

http://www
.mail-archive.com/help-smalltalkgnu.org/msg00339.html
though 
in practice I rewrote all the code.  Still, the credit for
the 
multiplexing transcript idea, and especially for using the
Compiler 
package to have a working multiplexing transcript in the
first place 
(!), goes to him.

I like a lot the way options like --snapshot, --pid, --kill
are 
implemented: instead of having a complicated protocol, I
just send 
Smalltalk commands like "ObjectMemory quit" or
"Smalltalk getpid 
printNl".  getpid(2) is accessed via DLD.

I found a typo in Compiler; that's been backported to the
3.0 branch.

Startup is slow mostly because the TCP package has to be
loaded.  You 
can improve that with a pre-prepared image that has the TCP
package in 
it; I'll see if I can do something else.

There is still no interface to Swazoo, but that's a minor
improvement 
compared to having the tool in the first place.

Paolo

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I attached an older version of the patch; I just want to
point out that 
the copyright notice in the committed file is:

| Copyright 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| Written by Paolo Bonzini and Mike Anderson.

Paolo


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