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New patch! What's new:
* The big change: I removed the "fd=" parameters. Now, functions that
 accept either a path or a file descriptor simply take either as their
 "path" argument. I ran it by Guido and he thought it sounded fine,
 so I tried it--and I think it's a definite improvement. (Thanks to
 Jim Jewett for suggesting it--tbh I'd considered it before, but
 looking at it through fresh eyes helped!)
* Also new in this patch: you can now LBYL for the fd, dir_fd, and
 follow_symlinks parameters. Just check to see if the function is
 in os.supports_<name of parameter>. For example:
 if os.chown in os.supports_dir_fd:
 os.chown(path, dir_fd=whatnot)
* The third big bit of news: the patch works under Windows!
* I attempted to support Mac OS X 10.3, specifically the weak linking
 to statvfs, fstatvfs, and lchown. However I don't have a Mac (much
 less one running 10.3) so I can't test this.
I *think* the docstrings are all fixed. The only thing I know that
needs to be done are the docs (and Misc/NEWS).
I really wanna get this in before the feature freeze. I promise to
support it through the betas... can I puh-leez check it in?