I don't see it as any less useful than coreutils' `false` (from the manpage: 'do nothing, unsuccessfully'). I've found it useful for occasional testing.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 1:06 PM <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:
FabioLolix [1] filed a deletion request for segfault [2]:

Pointless pkgbuild, from the description "Do nothing, just segfault"

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/FabioLolix/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/segfault/