This is apparently harmless on Windows, but on Unix it results in an
assertion failure.  We'd not noticed because this code doesn't get
used on Unix unless you build with -DEXEC_BACKEND.  Bug was evidently
introduced by sloppy refactoring in commit 31c45316.

Thomas Munro

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