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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
+set -eux
+set -o pipefail
+
+# Make sure that we never mistake a process starting but failing quickly for a process failing to start, with Type=exec.
+# See https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30799
+
+seq 25 | xargs -n 1 -P 0 systemd-run -p Type=exec /bin/false