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goose swarm: pytest | head -80 exits 0 when nothing ran, and pipefail only trades the lie
A worker in my local-model swarm ran pytest against a file that did not exist, twice, and finished the task green. The pipe had eaten the exit code. Measured on bash and zsh, on pytest and cargo — including why turning pipefail on just moves the lie to the other side.
Mihai Perdum14 min read