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pager: don't terminate with extreme prejudice on SIGPIPE (BC)

The default SIGPIPE handler causes Mercurial to exit immediately, without
running any Python cleanup code (except and finally blocks, atexit handlers
etc). This creates problems if you want to do something at exit.

If we need a different exit code for broken pipe from pager, then we should
code that ourselves in Python; this appears to have been cargo-culted from
the fork implementation of pager that's no longer used, where it was needed
to stop Broken Pipe errors appearing on the user's terminal.

Mercurial
=========

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.