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		inadequatespace on June 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robus... macOS does it on reboot, not sure if it inherited this from BSD proper

arp242 on June 21, 2023 [–]

FreeBSD comes with a "periodic" script to do it daily, but it's not enabled by default.

There's this idea that macOS is "based on BSD", but that's not really the case in any meaningful way; it took some components, but the system overall isn't really "based on it" as such.

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