[issue1578269] Add os.link() and os.symlink() and os.path.islink() support for Windows

[Jason R. Coombs]

Jason R. Coombs <jaraco at jaraco.com> added the comment:

I've confirmed that in fact a security policy permission is required to create a symbolic link, and that by default, that permission is only granted to administrators (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Windows_Vista_symbolic_link). Given this finding, I hope the buildbot can run the symlink tests as administrator.

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