From MariaDB 10.4.6, mariadbd-safe is a symlink to mysqld_safe, the tool for starting mysqld on Linux and Unix distributions that do not support systemd.
From MariaDB 10.5.2, mariadbd-safe is the name of the binary, with mysqld_safe a symlink .
See mysqld_safe for details.
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