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Slightly pedantic, but according to core-utils GitHub, false.c has not been changed in 21 years. But true.c, which is what false.c is based on, has been changed as recent as 4 months ago.
~I couldn’t resist looking it up, and found the results mildly interesting.~
Most changes are updating the copyright year.
After that, it's pretty much (or maybe completely, I haven't checked exhaustively) for the --help and --version flags, not for the core part of exiting with a certain exit code.
The true author, so to speak.
you mispelled super interesting
You misspelled misspell 🤪