On Fri, 2024-12-06 at 08:58 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > It is my understanding, which could be completely wrong, that a > symlink is not a physical file as such and doesn't contain any data > as such, it just links to somewhere that does contain the data (be it > a file or folder). If the target has actually gone, which is what I > understand a dangling symlink to be, hence the symlink points to > nothing (which means the symlink is broken), how is the symlink of > any use and what useful purpose does it actually serve? I suppose there could be symlinks that don't point to something, now, but might in the future? Or, normally do, but didn't at the time of your test.
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