_stat returns 0 size for file that might not be empty

[C++]

This is VC++ 6.0 code running on a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine. 1. I launch an external exe from my code using CreateProcess() 2. This process creates a file on disk 3. I do rc = WaitForSingleObject(procInfo.hProcess,INFINITE); 4. rc is returned as WAIT_OBJECT_0 5. int result = _stat(...