Fix test handling of link timestamps.

[davidmorgan]

I realized the "mock" timestamp handling in the package:watcher tests was not correctly accounting for links, which made the polling tests for links give wrong results.

Various changes to address that.

• Make use of "mock" timestamps optional, it now must be enabled at the start of the test by calling enableMockModificationTimes. The native watches don't use modification times so they can run entirely without "mock" times.
• Add a new way to run tests that uses real modification times. To ensure the polling watchers can notice changes, it instead spins updating a separate file until its modification time changes.
• Run most polling watchers tests both ways.
• Fix handling of "mock" timestamps when there is a link: resolve symlinks before looking up the timestamp. The fact that the handling matches real timestamp behavior is now tested :)

And, writeFile had unintended behavior when there was a link: it would write through the link instead of replacing the link. Make it replace the file, and add checks to writeFile, renameFile and renameLink that the specified path ends up of the expected type.

Update test expectations in link tests that were incorrect.

Test failures on MacOS on dev SDK are unrelated, they are due to an SDK issue dart-lang/sdk#61693

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[stereotype441]

lgtm assuming review comment is addressed.

[stereotype441]

Oh, wow, I didn't know this function existed. It's so handy. TIL!

[davidmorgan]

I know, right? :)

[stereotype441]

Add a comment here explaining why this is necessary.

(You explained it nicely in the commit message, but someone reading the code shouldn't have to dig through git history to find it)

[davidmorgan]

Sounds good to me, thanks. Done.