Provide a control-port mechanisms to manage idle mode better.
When Tor is idle, we should fetch directory information less aggressively, not build predictive or probe circuits, and so on. We should provide a way for controllers to manage idle mode: to tell Tor to enter it early, and to leave it in part of in full.
This is related to proposal 286.
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