Skip symlink sibling test on Windows without symlink support #13792
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Summary
On Windows environments without Developer Mode or admin privileges,
symlink creation is not supported. This caused
test_do_not_collect_symlink_siblingsto fail even though pytestbehavior was correct.
This patch adds a skip condition to avoid false negatives.
Related issue
Closes #13771
Changelog
Added
changelog/12039.bugfix.rst:test_do_not_collect_symlink_siblingson Windows without symlink support.