diff --git a/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/jargon.wordlist.txt b/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/jargon.wordlist.txt
index bd29bd246..a46469240 100644
--- a/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/jargon.wordlist.txt
+++ b/.vscode/cspell.dictionaries/jargon.wordlist.txt
@@ -133,6 +133,7 @@ setfattr
 setlocale
 shortcode
 shortcodes
+sigaction
 siginfo
 sigusr
 strcasecmp
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 37b3362e6..d3845979f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3782,6 +3782,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "codspeed-divan-compat",
  "fluent",
+ "nix",
  "num-bigint",
  "num-traits",
  "tempfile",
diff --git a/fuzz/Cargo.lock b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
index 90934a271..bd26e2474 100644
--- a/fuzz/Cargo.lock
+++ b/fuzz/Cargo.lock
@@ -1653,6 +1653,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "bigdecimal",
  "clap",
  "fluent",
+ "nix",
  "num-bigint",
  "num-traits",
  "thiserror",
diff --git a/src/uu/seq/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/seq/Cargo.toml
index 6f74ce37a..ad9786eb8 100644
--- a/src/uu/seq/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/seq/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ path = "src/seq.rs"
 [dependencies]
 bigdecimal = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true }
+nix = { workspace = true }
 num-bigint = { workspace = true }
 num-traits = { workspace = true }
 thiserror = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/src/uu/seq/src/seq.rs b/src/uu/seq/src/seq.rs
index 7b56c26f5..79e64f0ac 100644
--- a/src/uu/seq/src/seq.rs
+++ b/src/uu/seq/src/seq.rs
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 // spell-checker:ignore (ToDO) bigdecimal extendedbigdecimal numberparse hexadecimalfloat biguint
 use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
 use std::io::{BufWriter, Write, stdout};
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 
 use clap::{Arg, ArgAction, Command};
 use num_bigint::BigUint;
@@ -209,16 +211,18 @@ pub fn uumain(args: impl uucore::Args) -> UResult<()> {
         padding,
     );
 
-    match result {
-        Ok(()) => Ok(()),
-        Err(err) if err.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe => {
+    let sigpipe_ignored = sigpipe_is_ignored();
+    if let Err(err) = result {
+        if err.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::BrokenPipe {
             // GNU seq prints the Broken pipe message but still exits with status 0
+            // unless SIGPIPE was explicitly ignored, in which case it should fail.
             let err = err.map_err_context(|| "write error".into());
             uucore::show_error!("{err}");
-            Ok(())
+            return if sigpipe_ignored { Err(err) } else { Ok(()) };
         }
-        Err(err) => Err(err.map_err_context(|| "write error".into())),
+        return Err(err.map_err_context(|| "write error".into()));
     }
+    Ok(())
 }
 
 pub fn uu_app() -> Command {
@@ -332,6 +336,44 @@ fn fast_print_seq(
     Ok(())
 }
 
+#[cfg(unix)]
+static SIGPIPE_WAS_IGNORED: AtomicBool = AtomicBool::new(false);
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+/// # Safety
+/// This function runs once at process initialization and only observes the
+/// current `SIGPIPE` handler, so there are no extra safety requirements for callers.
+unsafe extern "C" fn capture_sigpipe_state() {
+    use nix::libc;
+    use std::{mem::MaybeUninit, ptr};
+
+    let mut current = MaybeUninit::<libc::sigaction>::uninit();
+    if unsafe { libc::sigaction(libc::SIGPIPE, ptr::null(), current.as_mut_ptr()) } == 0 {
+        let ignored = unsafe { current.assume_init() }.sa_sigaction == libc::SIG_IGN;
+        SIGPIPE_WAS_IGNORED.store(ignored, Ordering::Relaxed);
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(all(unix, not(target_os = "macos")))]
+#[used]
+#[unsafe(link_section = ".init_array")]
+static CAPTURE_SIGPIPE_STATE: unsafe extern "C" fn() = capture_sigpipe_state;
+
+#[cfg(all(unix, target_os = "macos"))]
+#[used]
+#[unsafe(link_section = "__DATA,__mod_init_func")]
+static CAPTURE_SIGPIPE_STATE_APPLE: unsafe extern "C" fn() = capture_sigpipe_state;
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn sigpipe_is_ignored() -> bool {
+    SIGPIPE_WAS_IGNORED.load(Ordering::Relaxed)
+}
+
+#[cfg(not(unix))]
+const fn sigpipe_is_ignored() -> bool {
+    false
+}
+
 fn done_printing<T: Zero + PartialOrd>(next: &T, increment: &T, last: &T) -> bool {
     if increment >= &T::zero() {
         next > last
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_seq.rs b/tests/by-util/test_seq.rs
index d5dd526aa..ba185d3d4 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_seq.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_seq.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 // spell-checker:ignore lmnop xlmnop
 use uutests::new_ucmd;
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use uutests::util::TestScenario;
+#[cfg(unix)]
+use uutests::util_name;
 
 #[test]
 fn test_invalid_arg() {
@@ -203,6 +207,24 @@ fn test_width_invalid_float() {
         .usage_error("invalid floating point argument: '1e2.3'");
 }
 
+#[test]
+#[cfg(unix)]
+fn test_sigpipe_ignored_reports_write_error() {
+    let scene = TestScenario::new(util_name!());
+    let seq_bin = scene.bin_path.clone().into_os_string();
+    let script = "trap '' PIPE; { \"$SEQ_BIN\" seq inf 2>err; echo $? >code; } | head -n1";
+    let result = scene.cmd_shell(script).env("SEQ_BIN", &seq_bin).succeeds();
+
+    assert_eq!(result.stdout_str(), "1\n");
+
+    let err_contents = scene.fixtures.read("err");
+    assert!(
+        err_contents.contains("seq: write error: Broken pipe"),
+        "stderr missing write error message: {err_contents:?}"
+    );
+    assert_eq!(scene.fixtures.read("code"), "1\n");
+}
+
 // ---- Tests for the big integer based path ----
 
 #[test]