Commit 7e344b5 hade the side effect of forcing every socket to
be non-blocking on Windows. This is because of a (documented)
side effect of WSAEventSelect(). So we need to make sure to restore
blocking behaviour afterwards for relevant sockets.
Currently, Windows versions of pacat and friends fail because the current
poll emulation is not sufficient (it only works for socket fds).
Luckily Gnulib has a much better emulation that seems to work good enough.
The implementation has been largely copied (except a few bug fix
regarding timeout handling, to be pushed upstream) and works on pipes
and files as well. The copy has been obtained through their gnulib-tool utility,
which gives a LGPLv2.1+ licensed file.
This fixes the "Assertion (!e->dead) failed" error coming and lets pacat
and friends stream happily to/from a server (I didn't actually test parec).