On Fri, 2019-12-06 at 15:18 -0500, Stephen Oberholtzer wrote: > (2) If it absolutely, positively has to be available in POSIX, how > can I submit a proposal for the inclusion of 'pipefail' as an option? No need. pipefail has been added to the POSIX standard although it won't appear until the next version I believe. See: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789#c4103 for the final accepted wording changes.