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"copy handles symbolic links" unit test fails locally, preventing other tests from running #198470

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@Tyriar

For a while now when I ran unit tests on Windows I see this:

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I figured this was running all of them and just one was failing locally for some reason. The problem was much worse as it seems to not run 8000+ tests without me realizing until it gets to CI.

Commenting out the test fixes the problem and runs all the tests.

It seems this issue is known based on the test content, but I guess it's not handled in all cases?

// Copy preserves symlinks if configured as such
//
// Windows: this test does not work because creating symlinks
// requires priviledged permissions (admin).
if (!isWindows) {

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