replace usage of os.popen() with util.popen()
To make this possible, I added a mode parameter to both implementations of
util.popen(), defaulting to 'r' (as it does in the Python stdlib).
#!/bin/sh
mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo foo > b
hg add b
hg ci -m "b" -d "1000000 0"
chmod -w .hg/store
cd ..
hg clone a b
chmod +w a/.hg/store # let test clean up
cd b
hg verify