I haven't checked Arch, but neither Ubuntu 16.04 nor Debian Jessie haven't created /bin as a symlink.

Odd, I could've sworn they did. I stand corrected.

> What do you mean? They didn't know there's a copy of the same binary?

No, I meant this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11627670

And there is no copy of the same binary.

That's what I said, you use the ELF interpreter. :P