Github user dragonsinth commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/curator/pull/23#discussion_r15487030 --- Diff: curator-framework/src/main/java/org/apache/curator/framework/imps/CuratorFrameworkImpl.java --- @@ -74,7 +71,7 @@ private final NamespaceFacadeCache namespaceFacadeCache; private final NamespaceWatcherMap namespaceWatcherMap = new NamespaceWatcherMap(this); - private volatile ExecutorService executorService; + private volatile Thread backgroundThread; --- End diff -- The bug is simple: Executor.shutdownNow() calls FutureTask.cancel(), which on older JDK versions has a bug where it can interrupt the wrong thread, causing all sorts of problems. Manually interrupting a thread does not have this problem. Given that this Executor is only every used to run one task (the backgroundOperationsLoop) we can simply switch to a Thread and avoid that bug.
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