TODO: Good enough watchdog implementation now in place

This patch removes the long standing Watchdog daemon from the TODO list.
We now have a bare-bones watchdog service built-in to Finit, with
support for handing over to an external, and possibly more advanced,
using the initctl API.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Watchdog
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Support for monitoring the health of the system and its processes.
* Add support for a `/dev/watchdog` built-in to replace both the BusyBox
watchdogd and my own refreshed uClinux-dist adaptation,
[watchdogd](https://github.com/troglobit/watchdogd)
* Add a system supervisor (pmon) to optionally reboot the system when a
process stops responding, or when a respawn limit has been reached, as
well as when system load gets too high. For details on UNIX loadavg,
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11987495/linux-proc-loadavg
- Default to 0.7 as MAX recommended load before warning and 0.9 reboot
* API for processes to register with the watchdog, libwdt
- Deeper monitoring of a process' main loop by instrumenting
- If a process is not heard from within its subscribed period time
reboot system or restart process.
- Add client libwdt library, inspired by old Westermo API and the
[libwdt][] API published in the [Fritz!Box source dump][], take for
instance the `fritzbox7170-source-files-04.87-tar.gz` drop and see
the `GPL-release_kernel.tgz` in `drivers/char/avm_new/` for the
kernel driver, and the `LGPL-GPL-release_target_tools.tgz` in `wdt/`
for the userland API.
- When a client process (a standard app/daemon instrumented with
libwdt calls in its main loop) registers with the watchdog, we raise
the RT priority to 98 (just below the kernel watchdog in prio).
This to ensure that system monitoring goes before anything else in
the system.
- Use UNIX domain sockets for communication between daemon and clients
* Separate `/etc/watchdog.conf` configuration file, or a perhaps
support for a more generic `/etc/finit.d/PLUGIN.conf`?
* Support enable/disable watchdog features:
- Supervise processes,
- CPU loadavg,
- Watch for file descriptor leaks,
- etc.
Documentation
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