Product: VMware® Workstation 17 Pro 
Version: 17.0.2 build-21581411
Host OS: Tested on both Linux and Windows 
Guest OS: Tested on Windows 10/11 and Windows server 2022

When a Windows program writes data to a file on a vmware shared folder, the data is not flushed to disk when the file pointer does not match the length of the data stream. This results in empty file that just contains null bytes. One such case that I encountered is the link.exe program which comes with visual studio. I suspect this is caused due to a bug in the vmhgfs FS driver that comes with VMware Tools but I could be wrong.

I added a sample POC program that can used to reproduce the issue and highlights the diffrence with the regular windows (e.g. NTFS) filesystem.
The POC is based on my findings while reverse engineering/debugging link.exe in an attempt to understand the problem.