While testing MakeMaker on Cygwin, the new Install.t test was unable to
clean up the blib/ directory created by blib due to mandatory file locking
of the copied blib/lib/Big/Dummy.pm file.  Investigating with lsof
reveals that something in or called by pm_to_blib() is holding
blib/lib/Big/Dummy.pm open and causing it to be locked.  I think this is
an old problem only now revealed because pm_to_blib() is rarely run within
a larger program, and even rarer is it run on systems with mandatory locking.

I've eyeballed some of the suspect code, ExtUtils::Install, File::Copy &
File::Compare but every filehandle I see opened appears to have a corresponding
close.

If someone can come up with a function to find all open, global filehandles in a perl 
program it would help a lot.

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