If you don't mind an unrelated question - what do you mean when you write "WIN32 lacks consistency" for things like chdir() and unlinkat()? If you mean the inab

If you don't mind an unrelated question - what do you mean when you write "WIN32 lacks consistency" for things like chdir() and unlinkat()? If you mean the inability to pass HANDLEs instead of paths, you might want to use the native NT APIs (like NtOpenFile and NtDeleteFile), which let you use handles directly.