windows: fix ShellExecute return condition

ShellExecute is an ancient API with an unusual return signature. It
pretends to return an HINSTANCE for backwards compatibility with Windows
3, but it's actualy a fake HINSTANCE. What's really happening here,
according to MSDN, is that it returns either an Windows error less
than or equal to 32, or it succeeds. So we adjust the return value
accordingly.

Prior to this commit, it was impossible to tell whether this command had
succeeded. For example, when using the "runas" verb, ShellExecute did
not correctly indicate whether or not permission was granted.

Change-Id: Ie60554d6465798bacb9a225c4ead7e8dd62bce14
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/sys/+/199521
Run-TryBot: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Nenad Kozul <knenad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Brainman <alex.brainman@gmail.com>
2 files changed
tree: 66c0c99f63398e1d5f8d4ed2edb914b21714278f
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  2. plan9/
  3. unix/
  4. windows/
  5. .gitattributes
  6. .gitignore
  7. AUTHORS
  8. codereview.cfg
  9. CONTRIBUTING.md
  10. CONTRIBUTORS
  11. go.mod
  12. LICENSE
  13. PATENTS
  14. README.md
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