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LENNART BORGMAN wrote:
> It wastes a lot of time that the code in some cases does not seem to be written to be portable from the beginning.
>   
Indeed. The lack of portability in Windows APIs does waste a lot of 
time. But we can't fix Windows, so we have to workaround the problems in 
Emacs instead.