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

[Jason R. Coombs]

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

My initial troubleshooting indicated to me that the intermittent test_tarfile problem exists independent of the symlink patch, so it was not relevant to this issue.

I've tried to do some more thorough troubleshooting, and this continues to be my finding, and somewhat consistent with Brian's finding.

I've created issue8317 to track the trouble with test_tarfile.

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