136723 - GetBugLink subroutine can hang under certain circumstances

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 86300

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Michael Pettenato]

I am running Bugzilla on a Windows NT, unfortunately, and therefore have done 
some porting changes to the codebase in order to get it working.  The issue I 
have run accross is that if you put a message similar to the following:
    
    This is a test if I put bug 1955 bugzilla may hang.

and bug 1955 does not exist, bugzilla hangs.  I have only tested this under 
Windows NT.

I have found that if you put a check in the GetBugLink subroutine in the 
globals.pl file this problem can be avoided.  The fix that I used is as follows:

snippet of code from GetBugLink subroutine:

    # Get this bug's info from the SQL Database
    SendSQL("select bugs.bug_status, resolution, short_desc, groupset
             from bugs where bugs.bug_id = $bug_num");
    # mpettenato 4/10/2002
    # added this check just in case
    # the bug number referenced here
    # does not exist in our database.
    # return the $link_text
    if (!MoreSQLData()) {
        PopGlobalSQLState();
        return $link_text;
    }

Comment 1

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86300 ***