worker: wait worker pid explicitly Before this patch, waitforworkers uses os.wait() to collect child workers, and only wait len(pids) processes. This can have serious issues if other code spawns new processes and does not reap them: 1. worker.py may get wrong exit code and kill innocent workers. 2. worker.py may continue without waiting for all workers to complete. This patch fixes the issue by using waitpid to wait worker pid explicitly. However, this patch introduces a new issue: worker failure may not be handled immediately. The issue will be addressed in next patches.

worker: move killworkers and waitforworkers up We need to use them in the SIGCHLD handler and SIGCHLD handler should be installed before fork.

osutil: implement setprocname to set process title for some platforms This patch adds a simple setprocname method to osutil. The operation is not defined by any standard and is platform-specific, the current implementation tries to cover some major platforms (ex. Linux, OS X, FreeBSD) that is relatively easy to support. Other platforms (Windows [4], other BSDs, ...) can be added in the future. The current implementation supports two methods to change process title: a. setproctitle if available (works in FreeBSD). b. rewrite argv in place (works in Linux [1] and Mac OS X). [2] [3] [1]: Linux has "prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...)" but 1) it has 16-byte limit, which is too small; 2) it is not quite equivalent to what we want - it changes "/proc/self/comm", not "/proc/self/cmdline" - "comm" change won't show up in "ps" output unless "-o comm" is used. [2]: The implementation does not rewrite the **environ buffer like some other implementations do, just to make the code simpler and safer. However, this also means the buffer size we can rewrite is significantly shorter. If we are really greedy and want the "environ" space, we can change the implementation later. [3]: It requires a CPython private API: Py_GetArgcArgv to get the original argv. Unfortunately Python 3 makes a copy of argv and returns the wchar_t version, so it is not supported for now. (if we really want to, we could count backwards from "char **environ", given known argc and argv, not sure if that's a good idea - probably not) [4]: The feature is aimed to make it easier for forked command server processes to show what they are doing. Since Windows does not support fork(), despite it's a major platform, its support is not added in this patch.

setup: test setproctitle before building osutil We are going to use setproctitle (provided by FreeBSD) if it's available in the next patch. Therefore provide a macro to give some clues to the C pre-processor so it could choose code path wisely.

patch: remove unused git parameter from patch.diffstat() Since 628a4a9e411d the parameter is not used anymore.

perf: add asv benchmarks Airspeed velocity (ASV) is a python framework for benchmarking Python packages over their lifetime. The results are displayed in an interactive web frontend. Add ASV benchmarks for mercurial that use contrib/perf.py extension that could be run against multiple reference repositories. The benchmark suite now includes revsets from contrib/base-revsets.txt with variants, perftags, perfstatus, perfmanifest and perfheads. Installation requires asv>=0.2, python-hglib and virtualenv This is part of PerformanceTrackingSuitePlan https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PerformanceTrackingSuitePlan

perf: omit copying ui and redirect to ferr if buffer API is in use This allow to get the output of contrib/perf.py commands using the ui.pushbuffer() API.