R.I.P.
while (true) with no break
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“Still running. Please do not disturb.”
Death certificate
- Status
- 🪦 Buried
- Cause of death
- Infinite loopNever finished. Died of exhaustion and took the browser tab with it.
- Severity
- Medium
- Hours to kill
- 1 hour
- Killed by
- Jashanpreet
- Language
- C++
- Born
- 30 Jun 2025
- Fix merged
- 1 Jul 2025
- Buried
- 10 Jul 2025
- Component
- worker
- Symptoms
- The background worker pinned one CPU core at 100% and never finished its batch.
- The fix
- Added the missing break when the queue is empty.
Timeline
Every life of this bug, oldest first.
Born as “while (true) with no break”30 Jun 2025
Fix merged1 Jul 2025
Buried10 Jul 2025