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Failing to spawn an arbiter thread should not panic creator thread #703

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We have had reports of some users running out of file handle, causing tokio to panic the new thread which in turns triggered this unwrap (https://github.com/actix/actix-net/blob/master/actix-rt/src/arbiter.rs#L153) and killed the caller thread (main in my case).
I think it would be better to offer a safe API (we can keep backward compatibility with an unwrap).

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