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It’s a lot older than the edit date of that document. ArchLinux, for example, made the change somewhere in the region of 10 years ago.

I can’t find an exact date but here’s a stack overflow discussion about the topic from 2016: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/266517/why-is-bin-a...




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