In the ideal world, uv I/O could be canceled safely at any time. In reality,
however, we are unable to do this. Right now linked failure is fairly flaky as
implemented in the runtime, making it very difficult to test whether the linked
failure mechanisms inside of the uv bindings are ready for this kind of
interaction.
Right now, all constructors will execute in a task::unkillable block, and all
homing I/O operations will prevent linked failure in the duration of the homing
operation. What this means is that tasks which perform I/O are still susceptible
to linked failure, but the I/O operations themselves will never get interrupted.
Instead, the linked failure will be received at the edge of the I/O operation.
