Something broke in the actions/download-artifact action and it is not preserving symbolic links. It didn't get a new release so my guess is that something was updated in the node environment or in npm. This is a future proof solution to preserve the fs structure between upload and download.
work around hang from test 373 to 374
add setting SHELL env for socat test
remove some tests for exec sniffing and sorted address options failing with actions but not locally