[release/7.0] Disallow TarWriter from writing link entries without LinkName set #74939
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Backport of #74892 to release/7.0
/cc @carlossanlop
Customer Impact
If we create an archive with TarWriter, we should only allow inserting symlink/hardlink entries that have non-null and non-empty LinkName strings. Otherwise we cannot extract them using TarFile due to having an invalid link target. This is consistent with the
mklink
andln
commands, which do not allow creating links with empty targets.Testing
Added many tests to verify that TarWriter does not allow inserting symlink/hardlink entries with empty LinkName. Adjusted some existing ones as well.
Risk
Low. New feature in 7.0. Making it more robust.
IMPORTANT: Is this backport for a servicing release? If so and this change touches code that ships in a NuGet package, please make certain that you have added any necessary package authoring and gotten it explicitly reviewed.