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Fixes a crash when running flutter run --machine (or other commands in machine mode) when multiple devices are connected and no device is specified.

Previously, if multiple devices were connected, the tool would attempt to prompt the user interactively to select a device, even in machine mode. This interactive prompt listens to stdin (via a broadcast stream wrapper). Since stdin is a single-subscription stream, once it has been listened to by the prompt, it cannot be listened to again. When the machine daemon later attempts to listen to stdin to receive JSON-RPC commands, it throws a StateError: Bad state: Stream has already been listened to. and crashes.

This fix introduces a canPrompt flag to device discovery and selection methods (defaulting to !outputMachineFormat in FlutterCommand), which disables interactive prompting when running in machine mode. Instead, the tool will print the available devices and exit gracefully, which is the correct behavior for machine-to-machine communication when a required parameter is missing.

Fixes #175948

Fixes a crash when running `flutter run --machine` (or other commands in machine mode) when multiple devices are connected and no device is specified.

Previously, if multiple devices were connected, the tool would attempt to prompt the user interactively to select a device, even in machine mode. This interactive prompt listens to `stdin` (via a broadcast stream wrapper). Since `stdin` is a single-subscription stream, once it has been listened to by the prompt, it cannot be listened to again. When the machine daemon later attempts to listen to `stdin` to receive JSON-RPC commands, it throws a `StateError: Bad state: Stream has already been listened to.` and crashes.

This fix introduces a `canPrompt` flag to device discovery and selection methods (defaulting to `!outputMachineFormat` in `FlutterCommand`), which disables interactive prompting when running in machine mode. Instead, the tool will print the available devices and exit gracefully, which is the correct behavior for machine-to-machine communication when a required parameter is missing.

Fixes flutter#175948
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This pull request introduces a canPrompt parameter to findAllTargetDevices and its helper methods to control interactive device selection prompting, defaulting to false when machine format output is enabled. Unit tests are added to verify these interactions. The reviewer suggested defensively checking if argResults is non-null in outputMachineFormat to prevent potential null pointer errors during early command initialization or in tests.

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