Fix undesired error exit on receiving SIGPIPE.

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-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-17
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-03-20
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
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 * Bugfixes.
 
+** Spurious error diagnostics on broken pipe.
+
+When receiving SIGPIPE, tar would exit with error status and
+"write error" diagnostics. In particular, this occurred if
+invoked as in the example below:
+
+   tar tf archive.tar | head -n 1
+
 ** --remove-files
 
 Tar --remove-files failed to remove a directory which contained