I'm talking about reporting an error to the receiver of the data, not
the caller of write().  E.g. I have a capnp interface for a remote
filesystem, and I want to read data from a file. I pass the server a
ByteStream to use to send me the data. How does the server report an
error *to me*?

Quoting Kenton Varda (2017-05-23 11:42:44)
>    Hi Ian,
>    I'm not sure I understand. write() can throw an exception. Does that
>    not solve the problem?
>    -Kenton
>    On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Ian Denhardt <[1][email protected]>
>    wrote:
>
>      Are there established best practices for handling errors that occur
>      with
>      async/push style interfaces, such as sandstorm's Util.ByteStream[1]?
>      That interface doesn't seem to supply a way to report e.g. an IO
>      error
>      that occurs while streaming, and since the call that obtained the
>      ByteStream has already completed, the error can't be reported via
>      the
>      rpc protocol's exception mechanism.
>      I suppose one could just add a method for reporting the error. But I
>      wanted to poll to see if there was any standard pattern for this.
>      [1]: [2]https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/src/sa
>      ndstorm/util.capnp#L69
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