MacOS fails check-unit for test-io-channel-command for some reason

Host environment

• Operating system: MacOS 12
• OS/kernel version: Darwin M1 22.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.2.0
• Architecture: ARM64
• QEMU version: 7.2.50
• QEMU command line:

  # brew install socat
  ./tests/unit/test-io-channel-command

Description of problem

While adding the socat dependency to the CI system it triggers a failure on the ARM MacOS build, eg: https://gitlab.com/stsquad/qemu/-/jobs/3769189709

Steps to reproduce

1. install socat
2. make check-unit