Make link handling consistent across native watchers.

[davidmorgan]

While rewriting the Linux watcher I realized that there was no practical way to implement the current behavior where it sometimes handles links as files and sometimes follows them.

Since the underlying native watchers report links as files, treat links as files always in these watchers.

The polling watcher had and still has different behavior, it follows links. (But now fixed for performance!)

Update tests and CHANGELOG to reflect all this :)

Tweak e2e test timeouts and run counts due to a timeout on Windows.

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