interactive: Avoid select(2) in input_available().

interactive: Avoid select(2) in input_available().

In analogy to write_ok(), introduce read_ok() which uses poll(2)
rather than select(2). To avoid duplications, abstract out the common
code to the new xpoll() helper.

We could avoid the timeout parameter of xpoll() at this point because
both callers call it with a zero timeout (causing poll() to return
immediately), but later patches introduce other callers which specify
non-zero timeouts.