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Comment by habinero

14 hours ago

It schedules low-priority background processes.

https://eclecticlight.co/2023/01/23/scheduled-activities-1-s...

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DetectDefect  2 hours ago

Until we see the source code (or at least a man page) that is an unverified claim and the process should be treated like malware:

    while : ; do pkill -9 dasd ; sleep 10 ; done

The tasks it "schedules" must be very low-priority, because nothing breaks when dasd doesn't run.

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