get_the_excerpt() causes Apache to hang

[s_g]

the_excerpt calls get_the_excerpt, which causes Apache to hang. get_the_excerpt tries to apply the filter get_the_excerpt, which it shouldn't. the_excerpt already applies the proper filter (the_excerpt). This should be changed as follows:

function get_the_excerpt($fakeit = true) {
	global $id, $post;
	$output = '';
	$output = $post->post_excerpt;
	if (!empty($post->post_password)) { // if there's a password
		if ($_COOKIE['wp-postpass_'.COOKIEHASH] != $post->post_password) {  // and it doesn't match the cookie
			$output = __('There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.');
			return $output;
		}
	}

	return $output;
}

If you didn't notice the change:

return apply_filters('get_the_excerpt', $output);

was changed to:

return $output;

[skippy]

wp-includes/default-filters.php line 69 defines a filter to apply on get_the_excerpt:

add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');

[Nazgul]

I cannot reproduce this.