* fn: mutex while waiting I/O considered harmful
*) Removed hold mutex while wait I/O cases these
included possible disk I/O and network I/O.
*) Error/Context Close/Shutdown semantics changed since
the context timeout and comments were misleading. Close
always waits for pending gRPC session to complete.
Context usage here was merely 'wait up to x secs to
report an error' which only logs the error anyway.
Instead, the runner can log the error. And context
still can be passed around perhaps for future opencensus
instrumentation.