waitRead# / waitWrite# do not work for win32-legacy I/O manager
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.
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