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Preserve AirflowTaskTimeout when timeout logging fails

Why

handle_timeout() logs a timeout message before raising AirflowTaskTimeout. The task runtime sends those logs through a pipe handled by the supervisor. If that pipe has been closed (for example, because the supervisor has exited), the logging call can raise BrokenPipeError instead.
This masks the original timeout, causing the task to fail with a logging error rather than AirflowTaskTimeout. This exact sequence appears in the production traceback in #64212.

What

Suppress OSError raised while logging from handle_timeout() so a failed log write cannot mask the timeout. handle_timeout() will still raise AirflowTaskTimeout after a logging failure. Non-OSError exceptions from the logging stack are deliberately left out of scope.

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When SIGALRM fires in a task-runner whose supervisor pipe is broken,
self.log.error inside the signal handler raises BrokenPipeError, which
propagates in place of AirflowTaskTimeout. The task then exits with the
wrong exception class and skips task_runner's timeout-handling path —
visible in the traceback attached to apache#64212 (handle_timeout -> log.error
-> structlog _write -> BrokenPipeError, AirflowTaskTimeout absent).

Suppress OSError around the log call so a broken pipe at the log sink
cannot mask the timeout. OSError matches the evidence in apache#64212 —
BrokenPipeError's parent class — without broadening to Exception;
whether the scope should be wider is left as an open question for
review. Two other links of the same failure chain were already fixed in
apache#66572 and apache#67955.

Related to apache#64212.
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