It is required to prevent deadlocks in single-threaded select-based IO
programs (namely: qrexec). POSIX API doesn't support checking how much
can be written to pipe/socket without blocking, so to prevent blocking
application must use O_NONBLOCK mode, and somehow deal with non-written
data (buffer it).
QubesOS/qubes-issues#1347
(cherry picked from commit 6a44eaeb09)
