bug#10733: 24.0.93; w32 file truncation

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 22:11, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 21:23:20 +0100
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, ofv@wanadoo.es, lekktu@gmail.com, 10733@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> To me it seems quite scary that Emacs has its own implementation of
>> such low level functions.
>
> Don't worry: `stat' is a low-level function on Posix platforms, but
> not on Windows.

That is not what worries me. This is reimplementation is surely necessary.

What worries me is the bypassing of MSVCRT. I think that perhaps it is
better to reimplement on top of that. But that might be just me.