Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
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+- Issue #9908: Fix os.stat() on bytes paths under Windows 7.
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 - Issue #2643: msync() is not called anymore when deallocating an open mmap
   object, only munmap().