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Resubscribing to a closed broadcast receiver will hang on a call to recv #4814

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Version
tokio v1.19.2, tokio master (4daeea8)

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Windows 10 64 bit

Description
Attempting to resubscribe to a closed broadcast receiver will hang on calls to recv.

I tried this code:
Cargo.toml:

[package]
name = "tokio-broadcast-bug"
version = "0.0.0"
edition = "2021"

[dependencies]
tokio = { version = "1.19.2", features = ["full"] }

main.rs:

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let (tx, rx) = tokio::sync::broadcast::channel::<u32>(4);
    drop(tx);

    let mut rx_clone = rx.resubscribe();
    drop(rx);

    loop {
        match rx_clone.recv().await {
            Ok(msg) => {
                println!("{}", msg);
            }
            Err(tokio::sync::broadcast::error::RecvError::Closed) => {
                println!("Closed");
                break;
            }
            Err(tokio::sync::broadcast::error::RecvError::Lagged(n)) => {
                println!("Lagged by {n} messages");
            }
        }
    }

    println!("Done");
}

I expected to see this happen:
The loop should exit.

Instead, this happened:
The program hangs indefinitely.

Furthermore, replacing the loop with a call to try_recv yields an Empty error instead of a Closed error.

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