The option appears to have been introduced in v1.0.4, and it enables low-water marks for socket communication to minimise the number of send calls required to get a minimum number of bytes (i.e. enable faster communication.) However, this is not widely supported; poll in Linux ignores SO_RCVLOWAT, but OS X may support it.
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