can still be in progress, and they're written to the same physical file via
a different file object.  Using buffered I/O in the packer creates the
possiblity for the packer to see stale data from its file object's stdio
buffers.  This is now known to happen under Linux, Gentoo, OS X, Cygwin,
and Debian.  It apparently doesn't happen under native Windows, which is
why everyone except me has been seeing the new checkPackLotsWhileWriting
test fail.

This will probably need to be backported everywhere, but first I want to
see in which new way checkPackLotsWhileWriting fails on 48 Linux boxes
overnight <wink>.