On Mar 21,  7:29am, Chris Torek wrote:
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} Unfortunately, POSIX mandates all the silliness with CLOCAL and
} nonblocking opens and such.  Someone with actual POSIX documentation
} might be able to figure out whether POSIX forbids doing it right,
} but I suspect it does.

     The answer to this is to ignore POSIX.  I don't believe in
standards conformance just for the sake of being conformant.  If the
standard is broken, then screw it.

}-- End of excerpt from Chris Torek