Don't get me wrong, OSS does not mean it will build in any random configuration on any distro. The source is there.
Maybe 7zip could do better, but still...
Since you are writing to the location where rip is pointing to, you need to rewind to the beginning of the page first. Otherwise the program will crash if you're unlucky and rip is currently exactly at the end of an executable mapping. Low chance, but still...
One use case I have faced more than once are stuck processes in legacy build systems. For example, generating docs takes ages. Just killing the generator process will fail the build because the parent will notice. And since the build system is buggy/old, restarting the build will start from zero.