[CURATOR-318] Threads may return different boolean values when entering same double barrier

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.10.0
• Component/s: Recipes
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shiliang Cao
• Created: 27/Apr/16 09:28
• Updated: 14/Jul/18 06:54

Description

To my understanding, when all threads are trying enter an barrier, they should all success or fail, which means their return values should be the same.

But actually they may get different return values in this situation (reproduce steps):
0. Some preparing works such as running a zk server, basic curator connecting codes;
1. Prepare 3 threads: thread1/ thread2/ thread3;
2. Thread1 sleep 20 seconds then enter barrier, thread2 and thread3 try to enter barrier right now, with timeout value set to 5 seconds;
3. Result: thread2 and thread3 returned false due to timeout as expected, but thread1 (the sleeping one) just return true, which I think should be false too.

Possible root cause as I observed via zkCli:
When thread1 and thread2 enter methods returned, their path nodes remained, so when thread3 came, it just think other threads are still waiting, so it just created the ready node and return with true.

If this is not by design, it should be a design defect.