dash can hang when piping to a nonexistant program

Dash (the thing that seems to be the default /bin/bash) seems to mishandle the following case which is easy to verify:

tail -f some_file | some_non_existant_program

Although dash correctly reports that some_non_existant_program is not found, 'tail' will stay running until it produces output, at which the write() will fail and tail will exit. Other than emitting output, there is no way to kill tail from that shell: ^C, ^Z, ^\, etc will not kill tail; it must be killed either from another terminal or by causing it to produce output (such as by appending to some_file).

Other shells (real bash, /bin/sh, zsh, etc.) that I have tested will correctly kill tail immediately and will not leave the shell hanging in an uninterruptible state.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS