Github user adeneche commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/503#issuecomment-219571472
This is an alternative change that removes the blocking latch from Foreman.
There is still a possibility for the foreman thread to block forever in case of
a bug but this should no longer cause rpc threads to block as well
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