Sync pipe read error

On Aug 25 2005 there was an explanation of the Sync pipe read error

    >   star: 362598 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 3713003520 bytes = 3625980.00k).
    >   star: Success. Sync pipe read error on pid 10836 flags 0x1.

    The background process did die before the foreground process and caused
    an EOF on the sync pipe. This is unusual and thus you see the message.

Also:
    Bash is unfortuneatly /bin/sh on Linux and it's jobcontrol is horrobly broken.

    If you use something like star  | something in the script then you see most
    likely the result of abash bug..... Bash is so broken, that I needed to add
    special support in smake to prevent hitting ^C to only disconnect the foreground
    from the terminal and let other processes run without getting a signal.

I use bash for my backupscript. I upgraded a Linux server and with this update 
bash was upgraded to 3.1.14. Now for the first time I see this message. We 
maintain lot of servers and use star for all these servers.
I have no problem with using another shell for the backup scripts but what is the 
best choice?

On the linux server are the following shells available: csh, ksh, tcsh, dash. 


Regards,
Ruud Baart