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On the otherwise-idle flubber:

    $ git clone git://sources.redhat.com/git/glibc.git
    Initialized empty Git repository in /media/data/home/tschwinge/tmp/glibc/glibc/.git/
    remote: Generating pack...
    remote: Done counting 380933 objects.
    remote: Deltifying 380933 objects...
    remote:  100% (380933/380933) done
    remote: Total 380933 (delta 294166), reused 380686 (delta 294002)
    Receiving objects: 100% (380933/380933), 70.31 MiB | 27 KiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (294166/294166), done.
    error: git-checkout-index: unable to create file iconvdata/ibm1122.c (Interrupted system call)
    error: git-checkout-index: unable to create file localedata/charmaps/IBM862 (Interrupted system call)
    Checking out files: 100% (10676/10676), done.
    $ git status
    # On branch master
    # Changed but not updated:
    #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
    #
    #       modified:   iconvdata/ibm1122.c
    #       modified:   localedata/charmaps/IBM862
    #
    no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
    $ ls -l iconvdata/ibm1122.c localedata/charmaps/IBM862
    -rw-r--r-- 1 tschwinge tschwinge 0 2008-12-15 15:49 iconvdata/ibm1122.c
    -rw-r--r-- 1 tschwinge tschwinge 0 2008-12-15 15:49 localedata/charmaps/IBM862

So these files are indeed of zero-length in the checked-out tree.  Is this
git's fault or something else's?

Fixing this situation is easy enough:

    $ git checkout -- iconvdata/ibm1122.c localedata/charmaps/IBM862
    $ git status
    # On branch master
    nothing to commit (working directory clean)