This must be a change in behavior on the part of a library or something.
I've just checked in the attached change so that it will come out in the
final 2.6.7 release (this patch is relative to 2.6.7pre1).
..wayne..
--- main.c 5 Feb 2006 04:52:11 -0000 1.293
+++ main.c 11 Feb 2006 02:35:27 -0000
@@ -1229,6 +1229,9 @@ int main(int argc,char *argv[])
/* Ignore SIGPIPE; we consistently check error codes and will
* see the EPIPE. */
SIGACTION(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
+#ifdef SIGXFSZ
+ SIGACTION(SIGXFSZ, SIG_IGN);
+#endif
/* Initialize push_dir here because on some old systems getcwd
* (implemented by forking "pwd" and reading its output) doesn't
