Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> And in any case, even if you want not to go through a temporary file,
> I'd prefer to edit the original recipe in sed1v2.inp instead of adding
> a DOS-specific recipe, as the former is safer for changes on the
> release branch.

Thanks, I opted to implement this option, and it works well.

I also implemented futimens (and based on that, utimensat), and fixed
the rest of the issues you outlined above.

If the following patch looks good to you, I will install it on
emacs-28.  Thanks.