Once client A loses connection it must assume that it no longer has the lock 
(you could try to time the session but I think that’s a bad idea). Once you 
reconnect, you will know if your session is still active or not. When done 
correctly, there’s no chance that both A and B will think they own the lock at 
the same time.

-Jordan



On July 15, 2015 at 1:17:10 PM, Vikas Mehta ([email protected]) wrote:

Thanks for the quick response Camille. If client A owns the lock, gets  
disconnected due to network partition, it will not see the SESSION_EXPIRED  
event until it is too late, i.e. client B has acquired the lock and done the  
damage. Problem here is that client cannot distinguish network partition  
from zookeeper ensemble in leader election state.  



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