From 538b38869fde43b90a1b6fde748cd4512b318f9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: RealOrko <>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 13:00:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added a warning for the writing of symbolic links with a link
 to the original GitHub issue for the DOTNET runtime

---
 src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionOptions.cs | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionOptions.cs b/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionOptions.cs
index 7f6e1efc..ef9848af 100644
--- a/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionOptions.cs
+++ b/src/SharpCompress/Common/ExtractionOptions.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-namespace SharpCompress.Common
+using System;
+
+namespace SharpCompress.Common
 {
     public class ExtractionOptions
     {
@@ -29,6 +31,10 @@
         /// </summary>
         public delegate void SymbolicLinkWriterDelegate(string sourcePath, string targetPath);
 
-        public SymbolicLinkWriterDelegate WriteSymbolicLink;
+        public SymbolicLinkWriterDelegate WriteSymbolicLink =
+            (sourcePath, targetPath) =>
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine($"Could not write symlink {sourcePath} -> {targetPath}, for more information please see https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/24271");
+            };
     }
 }
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