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tests: add a module that can perform the equivalent of `SIGKILL` on any OS

I started with this being Windows specific, but let's push all of the decision
making into this function so that it can just be called by the tests.  The
tradeoff is that this is very specific to sending `SIGKILL`- since
`signal.SIGKILL` doesn't exist on Windows, the desired signal can't be passed
from the caller.  Maybe there's a way, but let's wait until there's a need.

We don't use `killdaemons.py` unconditionally because it starts with a more
graceful `SIGTERM` on posix.

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
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Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.