Please clarify behavior of subsegment http.request.traced property, meaning of "broken" trace

[jmm]

Hello, the segment documents :: HTTP request data documentation says:

traced – (subsegments only) boolean indicating that the downstream call is to another traced service. If this field is set to true, X-Ray considers the trace to be broken until the downstream service uploads a segment with a parent_id that matches the id of the subsegment that contains this block.

1. Can you please clarify what "broken" means? What affect does it have on behavior? How would it be observable in the console or raw trace data?

2. What would be the effect of setting that on a subsegment for a request to a non-instrumented service that will never upload a segment?

See also:

aws/aws-xray-sdk-node#493

[joshbean]

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