improve robustness of wordexp and fix handling of 0-word case

avoid using exit status to determine if a shell error occurred, since
broken programs may install SIGCHLD handlers which reap all zombies,
including ones that don't belong to them. using clone and __WCLONE
does not seem to work for avoiding this problem since exec resets the
exit signal to SIGCHLD.

instead, the new code uses a dummy word at the beginning of the
shell's output, which is ignored, to determine whether the command was
executed successfully. this also fixes a corner case where a word
string containing zero words was interpreted as a single zero-length
word rather than no words at all. POSIX does not seem to require this
case to be supported anyway, though.

in addition, the new code uses the correct retry idiom for waitpid to
ensure that spurious STOP/CONT signals in the child and/or EINTR in
the parent do not prevent successful wait for the child, and blocks
signals in the child.

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