It seems to store some kind of application data, but how is it different from /data/data directory?
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ll /data/user/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 3 1970 0 -> /data/data/ – CS QGB May 01 '23 at 16:19
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/data/user was added in Jelly Bean as part of multi-user support. Each user on the device gets a directory in there named after their user ID, and that directory contains each app's data directory for that user. /data/user/0 is a symlink to /data/data.
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This is not true. See: http://androidxref.com/7.0.0_r1/xref/frameworks/native/cmds/installd/commands.cpp#135 – w3bMak3r Nov 07 '18 at 16:45
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6@w3bMak3r What exactly are you claiming is not true, and how does that source code (which postdates this question and answer) relate to it? – Dan Hulme Nov 07 '18 at 17:01