[HADOOP-270] possible deadlock when shut down a datanode thread

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Assignee: Hairong Kuang
• Reporter: Hairong Kuang
• Created: 02/Jun/06 03:45
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:41
• Resolved: 03/Jun/06 03:12

Description

The DataNode class provides a method "shutdown" that can be used to notify a data node thread to abort itself gracefully. In addition this method waits for its data receiving server to terminate. This may cause possible deadlock if the method is called by the data receiving server.