If connect() is called on a non-blocking socket, it will "fail" immediately
with -EINPROGRESS. After that, you select() on the socket and wait for it to
become writable.
This is useful for static locals that never need to be destroyed:
Thing& Thing::the()
{
static Eternal<Thing> the;
return the;
}
The object will be allocated in data segment memory and will never have
its destructor invoked.
