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Author izbyshev
Recipients izbyshev, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date 2018-03-05.19:24:41
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> As os.symlink requires administrative privileges on most versions of Windows

The current implementation requires SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege on ALL versions of Windows because users must pass an additional flag to CreateSymbolicLink to enable non-privileged symlinks on recent Windows 10, which os.symlink() doesn't do (see #31512).
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