`tail` does not exit when pipe is broken

[theofficialgman]

gnu coreutils tail implementation exits if the output of tail is piped to another command and that other command exits. coreutils tail -f file | filter

this functionality was added in coreutils 8.28 and a few bugs relating to it were fixed in 8.31.

uutils/coreutils tail does not exit when the piped command exits

[fritzrehde]

Hi, do you have a concrete command where the uutils tail does not exit? I tried

coreutils tail -f file.txt | head -n 2

and tail exited normally after printing two lines. But maybe this is not the situation you mean.

[cakebaker]

Closed by mistake, re-opening issue.