unix: add ProcessVMReadv and ProcessVMWritev on linux

These are Linux-specific system calls for efficiently reading and
writing memory in foreign processes.

A new RemoteIovec type is added for use in these wrappers, as Iovec's
Base field is a pointer, and creating invalid pointers is invalid in
Go.

Change-Id: I329501ab7b4df9d0aebe289369d3a5f77120af02
GitHub-Last-Rev: 262aabed02cc1f604e85fa1b4be1b874c57bd666
GitHub-Pull-Request: golang/sys#74
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/sys/+/243497
Run-TryBot: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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tree: 8d2c7ac6183b45545b1c808724d97a05f7e9e356
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  5. windows/
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  8. AUTHORS
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  10. CONTRIBUTING.md
  11. CONTRIBUTORS
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  13. LICENSE
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  15. README.md
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