RFR 8072030 Race condition in ThenComposeExceptionTest.java

[Chris Hegarty]

On 2 Feb 2015, at 11:36, Paul Sandoz <paul.sandoz at oracle.com> wrote:

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>> This was a nasty race. In fact there is no guarantee that the CF, that sets the AtomicReference would even complete, without join/get, right ?
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> I think the async completion of the thenComposed task will trigger (in the same thread) the completion of the dependent whenCompleted task, such that one could use a count down latch (which would be an odd thing to use).

Ah ok. I was thinking of the chain of CF’s as a stream, where you need some action to pull the result through.  I think it depends on the sequence of async and same thread stages, maybe not, I’d need to look into the details a little more.

-Chris.

> Paul.