What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version devel +5bc1fd4 Fri Oct 26 20:47:01 2018 +0000 windows/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

It does.

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

set GOARCH=amd64
set GOBIN=
set GOCACHE=C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\go-build
set GOEXE=.exe
set GOFLAGS=
set GOHOSTARCH=amd64
set GOHOSTOS=windows
set GOOS=windows
set GOPATH=c:\users\alex\dev
set GOPROXY=
set GORACE=
set GOROOT=c:\users\alex\dev\go
set GOTMPDIR=
set GOTOOLDIR=c:\users\alex\dev\go\pkg\tool\windows_amd64
set GCCGO=gccgo
set CC=gcc
set CXX=g++
set CGO_ENABLED=1
set GOMOD=
set CGO_CFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_CPPFLAGS=
set CGO_CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_FFLAGS=-g -O2
set CGO_LDFLAGS=-g -O2
set PKG_CONFIG=pkg-config
set GOGCCFLAGS=-m64 -mthreads -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\go-build402194526=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches

What did you do?

I run go test command against this program https://play.golang.org/p/7p-1wyayalB

What did you expect to see?

I expected test to pass.

What did you see instead?

Test fails with this message:

=== RUN   TestSymlink
--- FAIL: TestSymlink (0.01s)
    main_test.go:13: open C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\TestSymlink767020227\linklink: Access is denied.

Interestingly, that is what TMP directory look like during the test:

 Directory of C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\TestSymlink767020227

27/10/2018  02:54 PM    <DIR>          .
27/10/2018  02:54 PM    <DIR>          ..
27/10/2018  02:54 PM    <DIR>          dir
27/10/2018  02:54 PM    <SYMLINKD>     link [C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\TestSymlink767020227\dir]
27/10/2018  02:54 PM    <SYMLINK>      linklink [C:\Users\Alex\AppData\Local\Temp\TestSymlink767020227\link]
               1 File(s)              0 bytes

Note how link is a symlink to a directory (see SYMLINKD), while linklink is a symlink to a file (see SYMLINK).

Alex