It’s a critical failure being returned as a mostly untyped non-blocking comment.
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Okay, so what's the plan here? Convert it to a shared library, hope people pay attention to *those* return codes? Add a non-streaming command line option (and plead everyone uses it)? How is this better than just checking the damn exit code?
I'd understand if this were some subtle implication of the pipe interface, but we're literally talking about ignoring exit status here. This is security tool 101. Heck it's programming 101. Check your error codes.
