Scenario:

- There is a soft link from /etc/test/king.ini to
/opt/harvard/baby/yo/king.ini.

- From time to time the application that owns the king.ini stops working
without any warning.

- After a failure, the /etc/test/king.ini file system object is not a
soft link but a regular file. Its content is part of the pointed file
(/opt/harvard/baby/yo/king.ini)

- The contents of this regular file are not the same as the
/opt/harvard/baby/yo/king.ini. Some entries are missing.

- The workaround is to manually delete the regular file
/etc/test/king.ini and to re-create the soft link. After doing this the
program works fine.

Any idea on why this happens? Is this normal if an application (with
softlinks) crashed? 

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