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chg: remove manual reload logic

chgserver now validates and reloads configs automatically. Manually reloading
is no longer necessary. Besides, we are deprecating pid files since the server
will periodically check its ownership of the socket file and exit if it does
not own the socket file any longer, which works more reliable than a pid file.
This patch removes the SIGHUP reload logic from both chg server and client.

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.