Duncan Coutts authored 2 years ago and Marge Bot committed 11 months ago

Previously it was unclear that they did not work because the code path
was shared with other I/O managers (in particular select()).

Following the code carefully shows that what actually happens is that
the calling thread would block forever: the thread will be put into the
blocked queue, but no other action is scheduled that will ever result in
it getting unblocked.

It's better to just fail loudly in case anyone accidentally calls it,
also it's less confusing code.