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ThreadLocal inside a thread pool: where is the leak, and what one line stops it?

Tests whether you know pooled threads are reused across tasks, so a ThreadLocal set by one task silently leaks into the next task on that same thread unless you call threadLocal.remove() in a finally block when the task finishes.

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