The pipe code has traditionally not cared about which end-point of the
pipe you are polling, meaning that if you poll the write-only end of a
pipe, it will still set the "this pipe is readable" bits if there is
data to be read on the read side.

That makes no sense, and together with the new bigger buffers breaks
python-twisted.

Based on debugging/patch by Andrea Arcangeli and testcase from
Thomas Crhak