macos: use posix_spawn instead of fork

Applications running on hardened runtime based on Chromium/Electron
create mmap regions using MAP_JIT flag. With macOS Big Sur the fork()
calls done by uv_spawn have become slow. This is because fork() seems
to physically copy all JIT memory regions (no-copy-on-write). On
previous OS, these regions weren't accessible at all in the forked
process, explaining the regression.

The fix is to use posix_spawn() on macOS. This spawns a new process
directly, without copying any memory mappings.

Note that fork() is still used on earlier versions of macOS if the
necessary posix_spawn() platform-specific extensions are not available.

Fixes: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues/3050
PR-URL: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/3064
Reviewed-By: Jameson Nash <vtjnash@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Santiago Gimeno <santiago.gimeno@gmail.com>

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