syscall: fix a few Linux system calls
These functions claimed to return error (an interface) and be implemented entirely in assembly, but it's not possible to create an interface from assembly (at least not easily). In reality the functions were written to return an errno uintptr despite the Go prototype saying error. When the errno was 0, they coincidentally filled out a nil error by writing the 0 to the type word of the interface. If the errno was ever non-zero, the functions would create a non-nil error that would crash when trying to call err.Error(). Luckily these functions (Seek, Time, Gettimeofday) pretty much never fail, so it was all kind of working. Found by go vet. LGTM=bradfitz, r R=golang-codereviews, bradfitz, r CC=golang-codereviews https://golang.org/cl/99320043
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