Paul Sokolovsky 647e72ca63 tools/pyboard: Add "exec" and "execpty" pseudo-devices support.
This allows to execute a command and communicate with its stdin/stdout
via pipes ("exec") or with command-created pseudo-terminal ("execpty"),
to emulate serial access. Immediate usecase is controlling a QEMU process
which emulates board's serial via normal console, but it could be used
e.g. with helper binaries to access real board over other hadware
protocols, etc.

An example of device specification for these cases is:

	--device exec:../zephyr/qemu.sh
	--device execpty:../zephyr/qemu2.sh

Where qemu.sh contains long-long qemu startup line, or calls another
command. There's a special support in this patch for running the command
in a new terminal session, to support shell wrappers like that (without
new terminal session, only wrapper script would be terminated, but its
child processes would continue to run).
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