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Bug 21961 - The running mutation observers flag is never checked anywhere, so reentrancy is not prevented.
Summary: The running mutation observers flag is never checked anywhere, so reentrancy ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-05-08 03:46 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-06-09 23:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-05-08 03:46:25 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/webappapis.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#introduction-6
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#introduction-6
Referrer: https://www.google.com/

Comment:
The running mutation observers flag is never checked anywhere, so reentrancy
is not prevented.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-06-07 22:43:49 UTC 
It's checked in the definition of "perform a microtask checkpoint", no?
Comment 2 Dominic Cooney 2013-06-09 23:41:42 UTC 
Not sure how I missed that :)