The fix I posted in December does not make the write block,
it permits partial writes on non-blocking stream sockets.
The complaint that this makes pipes non-atomic is unjustified,
because pipes in 4.2BSD are already non-atomic.
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Brian Thomson, CSRG Univ. of Toronto
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