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Re:“Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust a... by nerdponx on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:42PM (#36411739)
I read that as undefined in terms of how the shell itself handles it, because the OS doesn't care.
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Re:“Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust a... by remram on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @09:50PM (#36413377)
I think it means that it is valid for OSes to return an error instead of doing nothing, if you attempt it.
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