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[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Steven Waters propounded (on Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:01:22AM -0800):
| > cd /tmp
| > mkdir a
| > touch a/x a/y a/z
| > ln -s a b
| > l b
| > \rm -fr a
| > l b
| > 
| > What would you do next? 
| 
| I would ask Mark! While I was waiting for his answer
| I would guess b is no good and I would "rm b"

/tmp/b is not necessarily "no good".  It's become a pointer to an object
that no longer exists, so you could instead describe it as "useless as
things now stand", or as "a vestigial dangling symlink".

Removing something that's become useless is the most obvious choice.
But another is to re-create /tmp/a.  :-)

-- 
JP