On Tue, 2021-04-13 at 08:14 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:17:56AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan
wrote:
> > What good, valid purpose is there for a
> > package to have a dangling symlink?
>
> I could imagine it being used as a kind of placeholder, but I
> wouldn't
> call it elegant.
Firefox, for example, uses a dangling symlink to represent a lock
file
in your firefox profile directory. A bunch of different applications
do the same thing, so it's not incredibly unusual to see them in your
homedir.
OK, I guess the point is to not use up an inode.
poc