I kinda doubt it. This applies to Windows 8.1 and no earlier or later version. So the problem was introduced in Windows 8.1. Furthermore, Windows never really had utilities passing data as text doing maintenance stuff in the core operating system. That's not how Windows works. There are APIs for everything, not command-line tools. And they sure as hell didn't "move an old Unix app to Windows" in 2013.
As other have said, maybe Raymond Chen will some day do a blog post on this, although, considering that the bug is in DFPCommon.dll, i.e. the "Disk Footprint Utility Library", I doubt it really belongs to the shell and thus he won't know more than we do.
As other have said, maybe Raymond Chen will some day do a blog post on this, although, considering that the bug is in DFPCommon.dll, i.e. the "Disk Footprint Utility Library", I doubt it really belongs to the shell and thus he won't know more than we do.