sigpipe-remote: simply delegate pipe forwarding to subprocess we can kill Instead of using sophisticated logics with thread a non blocking pipes, we simply spawn two new process in charge of reading the pipe and sending the result to the client. When it is time to cut the pipe we violently kill them without any remorse. This close the pipe regardless of any in progress `os.read` call. Ironically this is the very same things as what the initial shell setup was doing, but in Python. This makes the test pass run properly on Windows. This also reveal that the Windows behavior is broken as the transaction is not properly rollback. However this is an adventure for another time. Making the test behave properly was enough effort. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11087

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# This is literally `cat` but in python, one char at a time.
#
# see sigpipe-remote.py for details.
from __future__ import print_function

import io
import os
import sys


if isinstance(sys.stdout.buffer, io.BufferedWriter):
    print('SIGPIPE-WORKER: script need unbuffered output', file=sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(255)

while True:
    c = os.read(sys.stdin.fileno(), 1)
    os.write(sys.stdout.fileno(), c)