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osutil: use getdirentriesattr on OS X if possible

This is a significant win for large repositories on OS X, especially with a
cold cache. Unfortunately we need to keep the lstat-based implementation around
for two reasons:

- Not all filesystems support this call.
- There's an edge case in which it's best to fall back to avoid a retry loop.
  More about this in the comments.

The below tests are all performed on a Mac with an SSD running OS X 10.9, on a
repository with over 200k files. The results are best of 5 with simulated
best-effort conditions.

The gains with a hot cache are pretty impressive: 'hg status' goes from 5.18
seconds to 3.79 seconds.

However, a repository that large will probably already be using something like
hgwatchman [1], which helps much more (for this repo, 'hg status' with
hgwatchman is approximately 1 second). Where this really helps is when the
cache is cold [2]: hg status goes from 31.0 seconds to 9.66.

See http://lists.apple.com/archives/filesystem-dev/2014/Dec/msg00002.html for
some more discussion about this function.

This is based on a patch by Sean Farley <[e-mail]>.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/facebook/hgwatchman

[2] There appears to be no easy way to clear the file cache (aka "vnodes") on
OS X short of rebooting. purge(8) purportedly does that but in my testing had
little effect. The workaround I came up with was to assume that vnode eviction
was LRU, make sure the kern.maxvnodes sysctl is smaller than the size of the
repository, then make sure we'd always miss the cache by running 'hg status' in
another clone of the repository before running it in the test repository.

#require no-msys # MSYS will translate web paths as if they were file paths

This is a rudimentary test of the CGI files as of d74fc8dec2b4.

  $ hg init test

  $ cat >hgweb.cgi <<HGWEB
  > #!/usr/bin/env python
  > #
  > # An example CGI script to use hgweb, edit as necessary
  > 
  > import cgitb
  > cgitb.enable()
  > 
  > from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
  > from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb
  > from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
  > 
  > application = hgweb("test", "Empty test repository")
  > wsgicgi.launch(application)
  > HGWEB

  $ chmod 755 hgweb.cgi

  $ cat >hgweb.config <<HGWEBDIRCONF
  > [paths]
  > test = test
  > HGWEBDIRCONF

  $ cat >hgwebdir.cgi <<HGWEBDIR
  > #!/usr/bin/env python
  > #
  > # An example CGI script to export multiple hgweb repos, edit as necessary
  > 
  > import cgitb
  > cgitb.enable()
  > 
  > from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
  > from mercurial.hgweb import hgwebdir
  > from mercurial.hgweb import wsgicgi
  > 
  > application = hgwebdir("hgweb.config")
  > wsgicgi.launch(application)
  > HGWEBDIR

  $ chmod 755 hgwebdir.cgi

  $ . "$TESTDIR/cgienv"
  $ python hgweb.cgi > page1
  $ python hgwebdir.cgi > page2

  $ PATH_INFO="/test/"
  $ PATH_TRANSLATED="/var/something/test.cgi"
  $ REQUEST_URI="/test/test/"
  $ SCRIPT_URI="http://hg.omnifarious.org/test/test/"
  $ SCRIPT_URL="/test/test/"
  $ python hgwebdir.cgi > page3

  $ grep -i error page1 page2 page3
  [1]