Is nobody reading the article? It was an infinite loop. Not a blocked request. A bug. A logic flaw. Something that wouldn't normally happen. It was broken code.
You know what happens when you put a while(1); in the middle of the nginx codebase? The whole server process hangs. This is normal in an async design. We don't write software to be magically resilient against freak bugs, especially not something like a browser that is not intended to be used in life-critical applications.
You know what happens when you put a while(1); in the middle of the nginx codebase? The whole server process hangs. This is normal in an async design. We don't write software to be magically resilient against freak bugs, especially not something like a browser that is not intended to be used in life-critical applications.