Fix io:columns/0 timeout when invoked via user

This patch fixes an issue where io:columns/0 times out when invoked from
any application callback (or any supervisor/supervised module since the
group leader is inherited).

To reproduce the issue, one must simply call io:columns() from any
application callback. You will notice the process will block for 2 seconds
which then times out and returns {:error, :enotsup}.

Note this bug only happens inside the erlang shell (using -noshell or
escripts do not trigger the bug).

To fix the bug, it is important to understand how io requests flow from
application callback processes. Here are the steps followed:

1. Since io:columns/1 is timing out, the first step is to find out who is the
group leader for the application callback process. Using process_info/1, we
can see the parent process is the application_master and handles
io_requests by delegating them to the group_leader.

2. By inspecting the application_master process, we can find the group_leader
the message is sent is the registered process named user. The process is
running the group module which does handle io:columns/1 requests delegating
them to user_drv process.

3. The user_drv process does handle tty_geometry requests, except that a
clause above ends up short-circuiting all tty_geometry requests from the
user process.

This patch moves the user clause below the specific driver messages.

OTP-12241

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