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Provides a thread pool dedicated to running blocking operations (#588) and update `tokio-fs` to use this pool. In an effort to make incremental progress, this is an initial step towards a final solution. First, it provides a very basic pool implementation with the intend that the pool will be replaced before the final release. Second, it updates `tokio-fs` to always use this blocking pool instead of conditionally using `threadpool::blocking`. Issue #588 contains additional discussion around potential improvements to the "blocking for all" strategy. The implementation provided here builds on work started in #954 and continued in #1045. The general idea is th same as #1045, but the PR improves on some of the details: * The number of explicit operations tracked by `File` is reduced only to the ones that could interact. All other ops are spawned on the blocking pool without being tracked by the `File` instance. * The `seek` implementation is not backed by a trait and `poll_seek` function. This avoids the question of how to model non-blocking seeks on top of a blocking file. In this patch, `seek` is represented as an `async fn`. If the associated future is dropped before the caller observes the return value, we make no effort to define the state in which the file ends up.