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I will look into this problem and why test_shutil failed until
someone hacked the regression test so it passes under
Cygwin now.

Unfortunately, it may be a while before I find adequate time
to debug this problem. ;,(

Peter,

Since you have already devised a test case, would you be
willing to go to the next step and fire up gdb? Any help is
greatly appreciated. Thanks.