Mihawk b294a48d09 WebUI daemon: answer the title while the WebUI starts; the title asks again ...

On the console the daemon stopped minutes after every start, the page then refused to
connect, and the status said RetroArch was closed while the picker ran. Its log
(webui-daemon.txt): "serving the WebUI" 6 s (9 s the time before) after its start,
then "linked: picker", "unlinked: title", "unlinked: picker", and 20 s later "no program
of the title linked: the title is closed". The WebUI's start (reading the library, once
for each of 16 saved scraping jobs) ran on the link loop: the picker's hello waited past
its 5 s, the picker gave up for good, and the daemon, linked to nothing, stopped.

- The daemon starts the WebUI on a thread of its own (4 MiB stack, joined before a
  stop): hellos are answered meanwhile.
- The saved jobs are read against one scan of the library, not one each.
- src/webui_link.cpp: a hello not answered is asked again every second, never given up
  while the daemon is there.

Evidence: tests/test_webui_daemon.py test_hellos_are_answered_while_the_webui_starts (a
start made 7 s slow: both hellos answered in under 1.5 s, the WebUI up later with the
right frontend). tools/verify.sh: PASS (format unit build integration evidence).

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webui_daemon.cpp

WebUI daemon: answer the title while the WebUI starts; the title asks again

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