Antoon Pardon added the comment:

I think one could argue for allowing mode "r+" instead of "wb". Because "w" 
suggest truncation, which doesn't make sense on sockets either.

But in the end I agree that allowing 'r', 'w', 'b' and 't' is probably the best 
compromise available.

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