Only set mode of new patch if the target file was removed before. If the file is writable by the user, but owned by a different user, the chmod will otherwise fail with "Operation not permitted". Additionally make very sure that the file is only written if either the number of links is <= 1 or the file was successfully removed. Maybe this minimal COW code should be replaced by something from util.

#!/bin/sh

echo 'raise Exception("bit bucket overflow")' > badext.py
abspath=`pwd`/badext.py

echo '[extensions]' >> $HGRCPATH
echo "gpg =" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "hgext.gpg =" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "badext = $abspath" >> $HGRCPATH

hg -q help help