bug#57386: 29.0.50; support make-symbolic-link without admin priviledge on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  57386@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 19:35:39 +0800
> 
> Kiên Nguyễn Quang <kien.n.quang@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > There is LTS branch of Windows that gets updated regularly and doesn't
> > have to update to a newer release build.  Those users (mostly
> > enterprise users/devs) will get the ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER, I've
> > tested that.
> 
> What about Windows 95 and 98? Will reading the registry to obtain the
> API version return correct values there as well?

It should, although I never had a chance of testing that.

But the patch eventually submitted doesn't access the Registry at all.