From the first post, the feature-request was addressed to conitec in the first place, not for a poll - and in fact, should be usefull for many people.

What Matt posted is a workaround for some cases, nothing more. You will really soon get problems when using that method for more then tests, especially, if you target for lower hardware - if you can use it at all. On the other hand, your post sounds more like a final method or solution, not like a workaround.