threadCreate(): check for and handle missing SYS_NICE

SYS_NICE is a capability that allows a process to set thread affinity
and priority, among other things (see capabilities(7) for more info).

In this commit, add a function that allows to determine if the process
has this capability, and try to change the thread affinity and priority,
if requested. If the capability does not exist, the function will simply
not attempt to change the corresponding thread attributes.

To determine if the process has SYS_NICE, libcap can be used. However,
it might not be installed by default. To avoid requiring another
dependency, if we detect that libcap is not present, use a workaround by
try to set a real-time scheduling policy; if it's present, or can be
changed, we assume that the process has SYS_NICE (and clean up, if
relevant).

Simplify reading of capabilities

common/utils/system.h

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #define _SYSTEM_H_OAI_
 #include <stdint.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 extern "C" {
 #endif
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ void start_background_system(void);
 
 void lock_memory_to_ram(void);
 
+bool has_cap_sys_nice(void);
 void threadCreate(pthread_t *t, void *(*func)(void *), void *param, char *name, int affinity, int priority);
 
 #define SCHED_OAI SCHED_RR