Windows "failed to create new working directory" Without Create Symbolic Link Permissions

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SDK version

v2.6.1

Relevant provider source code

Any acceptance test.

Terraform Configuration Files

Any acceptance test configuration.

Debug Output

Will require Windows machine to provide (I do not currently have one, but reporting on behalf of another provider developer).

Expected Behavior

Developers on Windows machines without "create symbolic links" permissions can run acceptance testing, whereas the acceptance testing framework falls back to file copying when receiving a symlink permissions error.

Actual Behavior

=== CONT  TestAccDataSourceAwsGlueConnection_basic
    data_source_aws_glue_connection_test.go:18: failed to create new working directory: symlink C:\Users\danu165\development\terraform-providers\terraform-provider-aws\aws\internal C:\Users\danu165\AppData\Local\Temp\plugintest52906
1170\work132527849\internal: A required privilege is not held by the client.
--- FAIL: TestAccDataSourceAwsGlueConnection_basic (3.33s)

Steps to Reproduce

1. TF_ACC=1 go test -run=TestAccXXX -v ./aws

References

• New Glue Data sources - Glue Connection and Glue Data Catalog Encryption Settings terraform-provider-aws#18802 (comment)
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/create-symbolic-links

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It is not pretty, but here is a (potentially outdated) example of capturing the error: https://github.com/golang/dep/pull/781/files