- * The stream is inactive for now, we just updated the timestamp_end
- * to skip over this stream up to a certain point in time.
+ * Live streaming: the stream is inactive for now, we
+ * just updated the timestamp_end to skip over this
+ * stream up to a certain point in time.
+ *
+ * Since we can't guarantee that a stream will ever have
+ * any activity, we can't rely on the fact that
+ * bt_iter_next will be called for each stream and deal
+ * with inactive streams. So instead, we return 0 here
+ * to the caller and let the read API handle the
+ * retry case.