That's a consequence of their unacknowledged writes default - any write which failed for any reason wouldn't result in a rejection as far as the client is conce

That's a consequence of their unacknowledged writes default - any write which failed for any reason wouldn't result in a rejection as far as the client is concerned (because the default was to shove the write request into the pipe and then continue without waiting for acknowledgement). As I mentioned earlier, most everyone acknowledges (heh) that as a bad default. If you were checking getLastError on your writes, you would see the write fail when you ran out of address space.