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Thanks for that. You're definitely correct about using the dedicated tool for the file - lslocks --json gives me good data, whereas cat /proc/locks would have been Hellish to parse.
Thanks. I've left the other answer as it's slightly better as an answer to the specific question I've asked, but this is the much more interesting one - which explains why it's like this. Many thanks. Perhaps it's not worth worrying about these values, then.
@postanote, I've submitted superuser.com/suggested-edits/152817, which fixes it. It was probably tagged that way because it's more generally about invocation in a shell, even if most users just use Windows Run.