Sigpipes in ssl_io_hook_writev

Okay, I hope I'm not repeating myself, 'cause the majordomo apparently
moved my mail to /dev/zero a few days ago...

System is a Linux Debian Woody,
libssl 0.9.6c-2.woody,
libmm 1.1.3-6.1
from Debian archive

Apache 1.3.27,
mod_ssl 2.8.14-1.3.27,
PHP 4.3 CVS
handmade with APACI

CFLAGS=-g \
SSL_BASE=SYSTEM \
EAPI_MM=SYSTEM \
../configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--logfiledir=/var/log/apache \
--runtimedir=/var/run \
--enable-rule=SHARED_CORE \
--disable-module=userdir \
--disable-module=status \
--enable-module=so \
--enable-module=ssl \
--enable-module=rewrite \
--enable-module=speling \
--enable-module=vhost_alias \
--enable-shared=ssl \
--enable-shared=rewrite \
--enable-shared=speling \
--enable-shared=vhost_alias \
--permute-module=ssl:END

Exhibit 1:
----------
Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe.
0x401d7277 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0 0x401d7277 in ?? ()
#1 0x40782bfa in ssl_io_hook_writev () from
/usr/local/apache/libexec/libssl.so
#2 0x40066ce1 in ap_hook_call_func () from /lib/libdb.so.2
#3 0x400663d4 in ap_hook_call () from /lib/libdb.so.2
#4 0x4003c9a8 in writev_it_all () from /lib/libcrypt.so.1
#5 0x4003ce4e in large_write () from /lib/libcrypt.so.1
#6 0x4003cf27 in ap_bwrite () from /lib/libcrypt.so.1
#7 0x40053b52 in ap_rwrite () from /lib/libcrypt.so.1
#8 0x404e3562 in sapi_apache_ub_write (
str=0x82b26f4 " Transitional//EN\">\n