Negatory. I had tried this before posting the message. I tried a few variations on this, like:

# explicit file handle ($message)
write($message); 

# implicitly use selected output stream
write();

# Yah, I know this is wrong, but I had to try it.
write(MSG);
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And as far as checking whether select() failed or not, I don't believe there is any way to do this (Please tell me I am wrong, because I can't accept that)