The posixfile_nt class has been superseded by posixfile in osutils.c,
which works on Windows NT and above. All other systems get the regular
python file class which is assigned to posixfile in posix.py (for POSIX)
and in the pure python version of osutils.py (for Win 9x or Windows NT
in pure mode).
If a hg repository including working directory is a reparse point (directory
symlinked or a junction point), then using os.removedirs will remove the
reparse point erroneously. This is fixed by only removing directories if they
are empty.
The posixfile_nt code hits the win32 file API directly, which
essentially amounts to performing a system call for every read and
write. This is slow.
We add a C extension that lets us use a Python file object instead,
but preserve our desired POSIX-like semantics (the ability to rename
or delete a file that is being accessed).
If the C extension is not available (e.g. in a VPS environment
without a compiler), we fall back to the posixfile_nt code.
