Christian Heimes added the comment:
There is little bit more to it. A comment in the class' body describes the
reason for SockteIO:
# One might wonder why not let FileIO do the job instead. There are two
# main reasons why FileIO is not adapted:
# - it wouldn't work under Windows (where you can't used read() and
# write() on a socket handle)
# - it wouldn't work with socket timeouts (FileIO would ignore the
# timeout and consider the socket non-blocking)
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