On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that? > > unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/systemd/units > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan 4 10:33 invocation:at-spi-dbus-bus.service -> > bfec6466520a4586b8c9205c235ccc92 > [...] > I guess that's normal, then. It seems they're using the symlink target > as the actual *data*, not a link to another file that contains the data. > Why? I have no idea. I seem to recall one of the BSDs doing something > like this, but I never fully understood the rationale. Something about > atomic operations, maybe? >
I consider it as alarming rather than normal when I can't access data on my own computer. And I do want to know what this unit file for firefox contains and does and how it is being brought about.
