I don't think this test will fail on windows, but rather, it's not valuable on windows. these are "linux" symlinks (in the "symlinks" test package that was added), not NTFS symlinks, so they're just files to windows.  but I don't know windows that well, so I may be wrong.

2 things need to be confirmed on windows.  If a project contains true NTFS symlinks:
1) how does our current code behave in py3?  does it fail?
2) how does it behave after the change?  require elevated privileges?

I have to pass on looking into this.  Someone who's more comfortable with windows, or more motivated to get this change, needs to confirm it.