[Rd] sink(..., split=T) gives segmentation fault (PR#8716)

[Rbugs06 at kreil.org]

Full_Name: D Kreil
Version: R 2.2.1 (2005-12-20).
OS: Linux, Fedora FC4
Submission from: (NULL) (62.178.15.60)


sink("filename",split=T);
cat("sometext\n");
for (...) {
  cat(some terms);
}

reproducibly gives a segmentation fault. No other problems with this
installation.
Removing the split=T fixes the crash.

uname -a gives:
Linux aton.boku.ac.at 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4smp #1 SMP Tue Feb 7 13:51:52 EST 2006
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux