Sorry, gmail hard-wrapped my previous email, which causes hardships in just copying the code. I am resending it in HTML mode to avoid this problem. --- This pipe unexpectedly fails: ``` $ setopt pipefail $ { print -nr -- "x" || true } | eval 'print -rn -- "${(q+@)brish_stdin}"' ; echo $'\n'Returned $?:"${(j.|.)pipestatus[@]}" '' Returned 141:141|0 ``` This is the simplest thing I have found that works: ``` $ ( ( print -nr -- "l" ) || true ) | eval 'print -rn -- "${(q+@)brish_stdin}"' ; echo $'\n'Returned $?:"${(j.|.)pipestatus[@]}" '' Returned 0:0|0 ``` Even this fails: ``` $ ( { print -nr -- "l" } || true ) | eval 'print -rn -- "${(q+@)brish_stdin}"' ; echo $'\n'Returned $?:"${(j.|.)pipestatus[@]}" '' Returned 141:141|0 ``` The behavior is nondeterministic on macOS, and it actually doesn't usually fail at all! ``` $ for i in {1..100} ; { { print -nr -- "x" || true } | eval 'print -rn -- "${(q+@)brish_stdin}"' ;echo $'\n'Returned $?:"${(j.|.)pipestatus[@]}" } '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 141:141|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 '' Returned 0:0|0 ``` BTW, there seems to be another weird thing going on; Adding two spaces before `echo` breaks the whole loop both on Linux and macOS: ``` for i in {1..100} ; { { print -nr -- "x" || true } | eval 'print -rn -- "${(q+@)brish_stdin}"' ; echo $'\n'Returned $?:"${(j.|.)pipestatus[@]}" } ''zsh: command not found: ''zsh: command not found: ''zsh: command not found: ''zsh: command not found: ... ```