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Ken Sanislo b3a2cccfed NetworkServer: per-client send thread for SignalUpdate notifications
RGBController_UpdateCallback sent the SignalUpdate packet synchronously
via SendRequest_RGBController_SignalUpdate, which runs inside
RGBController::SignalUpdate. A blocking send there (slow client) keeps
SignalCalls > 0, so WaitSignalCalls -- the callback drain that
Unregister/ClearCallbacks/Shutdown run while tearing callbacks down on a
rescan -- waits forever. That is the client/server rescan deadlock.

Each client now owns an outbound queue and a dedicated send thread. The
signal path builds the packet (brief AccessMutex, as before) and queues
it; the client's own thread does the blocking send. A slow client backs
up only its own queue and blocks only its own thread, so the signal path
and the callback drain are never blocked.

UPDATELEDS packets coalesce per controller (a newer frame replaces the
pending one), so a stalled client's queue stays bounded to one packet
per controller instead of growing without bound; non-coalescable events
fall back to a hard cap with drop-oldest. The client destructor stops
the thread with shutdown(SD_BOTH), which unblocks an in-flight send, so
the join at teardown cannot hang. A queue entry owns its packet header
and data buffer; the send thread frees the buffer after the send, so
there is no copy and the packet outlives the controller safely.

Follow-up: the send still takes the shared send_in_progress, so a slow
client can still stall sends to others; routing response sends through
the same per-client path would make that a per-client lock.

net_port: add SD_BOTH (SHUT_RDWR) for the POSIX socket shims.
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