Bug: nested subsegments don't work across threads
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Description
We're tracking a bug where nested subsegments don't work across threads, even when using the [official suggestion in the documentation](https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python#trace-threadpoolexecutor).
We've managed to reproduce the issue with some minimal code:
## Code snippet
```python
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from aws_xray_sdk.core import xray_recorder
@xray_recorder.capture("## lambda handler")
def lambda_handler(event, context):
with ThreadPoolExecutor() as pool:
@xray_recorder.capture("## f")
def f():
@xray_recorder.capture("## h")
def h():
pass
def g(trace_entity):
xray_recorder.set_trace_entity(trace_entity)
h()
xray_recorder.clear_trace_entities()
curr = xray_recorder.get_trace_entity()
pool.submit(g, curr)
```
This produces the following XRay traces:
## XRay trace
```
XRay Event at (2023-04-05T16:32:52.012000) with id (1-642d8694-731f0a1a6d204264677086db) and duration (0.388s)
- 0.388s - lambda-function-url-HelloWorldFunction-sRQB00cHvXOP [HTTP: 200]
- 0.021s - lambda-function-url-HelloWorldFunction-sRQB00cHvXOP
- 0.223s - Initialization
- 0.020s - Invocation
- 0.019s - ## lambda handler
- 0.018s - ## f
- 0.000s - ## h
- 0.000s - Overhead
```
The expected output would be for the "h" trace to be nested under "f":
## Expected output
```
XRay Event at (2023-04-05T16:32:52.012000) with id (1-642d8694-731f0a1a6d204264677086db) and duration (0.388s)
- 0.388s - lambda-function-url-HelloWorldFunction-sRQB00cHvXOP [HTTP: 200]
- 0.021s - lambda-function-url-HelloWorldFunction-sRQB00cHvXOP
- 0.223s - Initialization
- 0.020s - Invocation
- 0.019s - ## lambda handler
- 0.018s - ## f
- 0.000s - ## h
- 0.000s - Overhead
```
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