Re: [Grep-devel] grep-2.27 released [stable]

[Paul Eggert]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Do this mean that
>
>   while true; do echo foo; done | grep . | head
>
> will never terminate?

No, because 'grep' will killed by SIGPIPE, or (if the caller ignores SIGPIPE) 
will report a write error and exit.  If the caller ignores SIGPIPE the 'while' 
loop will run indefinitely, but that won't be grep's fault.

The brief summary in the NEWS file didn't capture this detail.