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Thanks.  I only fixed the bug as the second part is a
feature request.

Committed revision 42012.
Committed revision 42041. (2.4)

I'm not opposed to adding the feature, but would like to
keep the unix and windows versions as similar as possible. 
I don't know what windows does in this case.  I'm going to
close this bug report.

If you are interested in making a patch that handles
windows, unix, and the doc feel free to submit a patch for
it.  Also, when you submit a patch please attach a file
since SF screws up the formatting.  For the one-liner it's
not a big deal to inline, but it could be a problem for
python code still.