Allow delayed node start

It will be useful to allow nodes to be started after a certain amount of time, especially when interested in its effect on the consensus.

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If the node is created with a delay=x value then chutney forks a child, sleeps for x seconds and then execs tor. This likely can be improved. Branch bug10155 in my repo.

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It looks like we've diverged a little; fad78679d34e4f345b13942e9bbdc0ddbbb52e13 is the commit I should be reviewing here.

I like the idea for the feature, but I think this argues strongly for some kind of scheduler/driver-based thing, rather than a bunch of fork/sleep/exit backends.

Then again, nobody's written the scheduler/driver thing, and this would work today, I bet.

What tests have you done with this?

How well does this work if you say "chutney status" or "chutney stop" before the delayed tor nodes have started?

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Remove myself as owner from old chutney tickets; that's not what we use owner for.

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moved to tpo/core/chutney#10155 (closed)