*** Andrew Chambers [2022-05-09 12:31]:
>One idea would perhaps have been to inspect ulimit

That will definitely work too. But that depends on each exact system's
configuration, where upper ulimit's values can be strictly lowered by
the administrator and you won't be able to increase them.

>Note this is accepted for upcoming POSIX, so in the end Freebsd will need to
>change :)

Ah, did not know that. That is good, because pipefail seems to be the
very first thing one want to be standardized.

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