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+Handle broken channel/stream faults where the root's tty lock is left acquired by some
+child actor who went MIA and the root ends up hanging indefinitely.
+
+There's two parts here:
+- Don't shield wait on the lock
+- Always do our best to release the lock on the expected worst case connection faults