gh-68048: Remove unneeded lseek() call in mmap.mmap on Windows (GH-7017)

fseek() was necessary for FILE streams on Windows 9x systems for its side
effect (flush). lseek() which replaced it in 2003 was never needed.

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>

Author: ZackerySpytz

Lib/test/test_mmap.py

@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ def test_basic(self):
             f.flush()
             m = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 2 * PAGESIZE)
             self.addCleanup(m.close)
+            self.assertEqual(f.tell(), 2 * PAGESIZE)
         finally:
             f.close()
 

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2026-08-09-17-30-00.gh-issue-68048.Mq8Vd4.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Creating a :class:`mmap.mmap` object on Windows no longer resets the position
+of the underlying file to zero, as on other platforms.

Modules/mmapmodule.c

@@ -2084,9 +2084,6 @@ new_mmap_object(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwdict)
         fh = _Py_get_osfhandle(fileno);
         if (fh == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
             return NULL;
-
-        /* Win9x appears to need us seeked to zero */
-        lseek(fileno, 0, SEEK_SET);
     }
 
     m_obj = (mmap_object *)type->tp_alloc(type, 0);