add a comment about some sketchy behavior
Summary: `IOThreadPoolExecutor.pickThread()` has some sketchy behavior where, if the threadpool has no threads, it returns `*thisThread_` unconditionally. My read is that this can happen only in two cases. First, `getEventBase` could be called from outside the threadpool while the threadpool has no threads (either because it was stopped or because somebody set it to 0 threads.) In this case, `*thisThread_` will be nullptr and `getEventBase` will try to immediately dereference it, (hopefully) crashing. Second, `getEventBase` could be called from inside the threadpool, but from a thread which is shutting down. This is also somewhat dodgy, because by the time we get to this case (`me && !contains(threadList_.get(), me)`), stopThreads will have already called terminateLoopSoon on the evb. While it would still be possible to use the evb safely (in the sense that one could write a program which does not hit undefined behavior), I think it'd be strongly dependent on the way IOTPE and EventBase are currently implemented and therefore probably a bad idea. I don't have the bandwidth to really dig into this now and figure out what the correct behavior is, or how to fix people who might be relying on the broken one. But I figure I can at least leave a comment behind that this is something maybe worth looking into. Reviewed By: meyering Differential Revision: D9754314 fbshipit-source-id: 6851d49e634707cacc803a95763eda023967b932
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