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util: make `mmapread()` work on Windows again

522b4d729e89 started referencing `mmap.MAP_PRIVATE`, but that's not available on
Windows, so `hg version` worked, but `make local` did not.  That commit also
started calling the constructor with the fine-grained `flags` and `prot` args,
but those aren't available on Windows either[1] (though the backing C code
doesn't seem conditionalized to disallow usage of them).

I assume the change away from from the `access` arg was to provide the same
options, plus `MAP_POPULATE`.  Looking at the source code[2], they're not quite
the same- `ACCESS_READ` is equivalent to `flags = MAP_SHARED` and `prot = PROT_READ`.
`MAP_PRIVATE` is only used with `ACCESS_COPY`, which allows read and write.
Therefore, we can't quite get the same baseline flags on Windows, but this was
the status quo ante and `MAP_POPULATE` is a Linux thing, so presumably it works.

I realize that typically the OS differences are abstracted into the platform
modules, but I'm leaving it here so that it is obvious what the differences are
between the platforms.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/mmap.html#mmap.mmap
[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5e0abb47886bc665eefdcc19fde985f803e49d4c/Modules/mmapmodule.c#L1539

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
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