traced_probes: Refactor + Remove timeout from aflags invocation (#5514) - Remove the timeout on flush: this is unnecessary and adds just another timing parameter that makes the code harder to reason about. If aflags takes too long, the existing code in both TracingServiceImpl (5s) and ProbesProducer (1s) will take care of it. - Unify some of the code paths that handle error cases. - Added Subprocess::Kill (without Wait). This is to avoid suspending traced_probes' main thread waiting for the termination of a process in case of timeouts: if aflags takes too long, the trace will be finalized, hence the AndroidAflagsDataSource will be destroyed. By default the Subprocess dtor does a KillAndWait (and cannot do otherwise to avoid zombie processes). So we try to reduce the chance of waiting by allowing up to 10 seconds between the kill and the waitpid(). Bug: 502852101
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