worker: support more return types in posix worker
This allows us to return things that aren't tuple(int, str) from worker
functions. I wanted to use marshal instead of pickle, but it seems to read from
the pipe in non-blocking mode, which means it stops before it sees the results.
The windows worker already supports arbitrary return values without
serialization, because it uses threads instead of subprocesses.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3845
$ cat > abortcommit.py <<EOF
> from mercurial import error
> def hook(**args):
> raise error.Abort(b"no commits allowed")
> def reposetup(ui, repo):
> repo.ui.setconfig(b"hooks", b"pretxncommit.nocommits", hook)
> EOF
$ abspath=`pwd`/abortcommit.py
$ cat <<EOF >> $HGRCPATH
> [extensions]
> mq =
> abortcommit = $abspath
> EOF
$ hg init foo
$ cd foo
$ echo foo > foo
$ hg add foo
mq may keep a reference to the repository so __del__ will not be
called and .hg/journal.dirstate will not be deleted:
$ hg ci -m foo
error: pretxncommit.nocommits hook failed: no commits allowed
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: no commits allowed
[255]
$ hg ci -m foo
error: pretxncommit.nocommits hook failed: no commits allowed
transaction abort!
rollback completed
abort: no commits allowed
[255]
$ cd ..