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I think we'll want issue9949 merged as well, so that ntpath.realpath() does its job. Certainly the tests would benefit from it.

Until then, I think it makes sense for os.readlink() to handle the prefix and _getfinalpathname() call, but leave nt.readlink() as returning the raw value.