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posix, windows: introduce cachestat

This class contains a stat result, and possibly other file info to reliably
determine between two points in time whether a file has changed.

Uniquely identifying a file gives us that reliability because we either
atomic rename or append. So one of two will happen: the file 'id' will change,
or the size of the file will change.

posix implements it simply by calling os.stat() and checking if the result
has st_ino.

For now on Windows we always assume the path is uncacheable. This can be
improved on NTFS due to file IDs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363788(v=vs.85).aspx

So we need to find out if a file path is on an NTFS drive, for that we have:

- GetVolumeInformation, which unfortunately only works with a root path (but is available on XP)
- GetVolumeInformationByHandleW, works on a full file path but requires Vista or higher

  $ hg init a
  $ cd a
  $ echo 123 > a
  $ hg add a
  $ hg commit -m "a" -u a

  $ cd ..
  $ hg init b
  $ cd b
  $ echo 321 > b
  $ hg add b
  $ hg commit -m "b" -u b

  $ hg pull ../a
  pulling from ../a
  searching for changes
  abort: repository is unrelated
  [255]

  $ hg pull -f ../a
  pulling from ../a
  searching for changes
  warning: repository is unrelated
  requesting all changes
  adding changesets
  adding manifests
  adding file changes
  added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads)
  (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)

  $ hg heads
  changeset:   1:9a79c33a9db3
  tag:         tip
  parent:      -1:000000000000
  user:        a
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     a
  
  changeset:   0:01f8062b2de5
  user:        b
  date:        Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
  summary:     b