[issue1039] Asssertion in Windows debug build

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> added the comment:

This issue was misclassified as an interpreter crash while in fact it was a bug in the underlying OS utility. Please see discussion in issue8154.

Since the fix changes behavior, it should be documented and a NEWS entry added.

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type: crash -> feature request

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