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Cygwin: Adjust CWD magic to accommodate for the latest Windows previews

Reportedly a very recent internal build of Windows 11 once again changed
the current working directory logic a bit, and Cygwin's "magic" (or:
"technologically sufficiently advanced") code needs to be adjusted
accordingly.

In particular, the following assembly code can be seen:

ntdll!RtlpReferenceCurrentDirectory

  598 00000001`800c6925 488d0db4cd0f00  lea     rcx,[ntdll!FastPebLock (00000001`801c36e0)]
  583 00000001`800c692c 4c897810        mov     qword ptr [rax+10h],r15
  588 00000001`800c6930 0f1140c8        movups  xmmword ptr [rax-38h],xmm0
  598 00000001`800c6934 e82774f4ff      call    ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection

The change necessarily looks a bit different than 4840a56325 (Cygwin:
Adjust CWD magic to accommodate for the latest Windows previews,
2023-05-22): The needle `\x48\x8d\x0d` is already present, as the first
version of the hack after Windows 8.1 was released. In that code,
though, the `call` to `RtlEnterCriticalSection` followed the `lea`
instruction immediately, but now there are two more instructions
separating them.

Note: In the long run, we may very well want to follow the insightful
suggestion by a helpful Windows kernel engineer who pointed out that it
may be less fragile to implement kind of a disassembler that has a
better chance to adapt to the ever-changing code of
`ntdll!RtlpReferenceCurrentDirectory` by skipping uninteresting
instructions such as `mov %rsp,%rax`, `mov %rbx,0x20(%rax)`, `push %rsi`
`sub $0x70,%rsp`, etc, and focuses on finding the `lea`, `call
ntdll!RtlEnterCriticalSection` and `mov ..., rbx` instructions, much
like it was prototyped out for ARM64 at
https://gist.github.com/jeremyd2019/aa167df0a0ae422fa6ebaea5b60c80c9

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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