RHEL7: Getting "tar: write error" message when untaring from a pipe executing "ssh" command

Issue

• When executing a tar command piped from a ssh command, the tar command sometimes exits with message tar: write error, as shown in the example below

  $ (ssh -n remotesystem "cd src && tar cf - ." | (cd dst && tar xpvBf -)) 2>&1 | grep "write error"
  tar: write error
  

• The issue mainly happens when using ksh as user shell. It happens rarely with bash but may happen anyway.