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+Fix keyboard interrupt handling in ``Portal.open_context()`` blocks.
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+Previously this not triggering cancellation of the remote task context
+and could result in hangs if a stream was also opened. This fix is to
+accept `BaseException` since it is likely any other top level exception
+other then kbi (even though not expected) should also get this result.