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
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