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Problem

  • spawn() with a "pipe" at stdio index 3 or higher emits 'close' before that pipe delivers its data: ["","A","B","",""] at 'close', Node has ["","A","B","CCC","DDD"].
  • #getBunSpawnIo (src/js/node/child_process.ts) counts only stdout and stderr toward 'close', and #handleOnExit drains only those.

Fix

  • Count each extra pipe's socket toward 'close'. Handle the exit after the current poll, so the pipes hold the child's bytes. On the tick after 'exit', resume each extra pipe still readable.
  • Node does all three: the count in spawn(), exit callbacks last in a poll (libuv), flushStdio after 'exit'.
  • Verified on Linux x64: seven new subprocess tests in test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts (six fail without the change), the rest of that directory, Node's test-child-process-*.js.
  • Self-reviewed: 6 concerns raised, 5 addressed. Windows and macOS wait for CI.

Background

  • 'close' fires when #closesGot reaches #closesNeeded: one count for the exit, one per counted stream.
  • An extra pipe is a net.Socket. Paused with unread bytes, it never reaches 'end'.
  • Considered the resume before 'exit': a pause() in an 'exit' listener then holds 'close'. Considered Node's one flush for all stdio: it changes every spawn, so it is separate work.

Downsides

  • A parent that first reads an extra pipe after its 'exit' listeners gets no bytes, as in Node. Before, they stayed buffered.
  • 'close' waits while a grandchild holds an extra pipe open, as in Node. With an extra pipe, 'exit' comes one setImmediate later.
  • Per extra pipe: one closure, one listener, one nextTick. Otherwise two loop tests at exit. Binary size: at most +4.0 KB (CI build 123096, earlier head).
Notes

This is Node parity. No user reported it. Related to #42819, which has the same count and a resume of these pipes before 'exit'.

History of this PR.

  • 3c016d5 counted the extra pipes and nothing else. A parent that did not read an extra pipe never got 'close': the socket kept the unread bytes and never ended.
  • 835ffa2 resumed the extra pipes before 'exit' was emitted, where stdout and stderr get it. A pause() inside an 'exit' listener then held 'close'.
  • 36b22f6 moved the resume to the tick after 'exit', as in Node's flushStdio (source).
  • 65d371c handles the exit after the current poll, and does not resume a pipe that was passed as stdio to a second spawn.

Why the exit waits for the poll. libuv runs the signal watchers, and with them the child exit callbacks, after the other I/O callbacks of the same poll (source). So in Node the pipes hold what the child wrote when 'exit' fires. Bun's loop has no such order. On a first spawn node:net loads after the child has started. A fast child has then exited before the socket of the extra pipe is registered, and 'exit' came first (3 of 3 runs on 1.4.3). A parent that then paused the pipe (readline.close(), unpipe(), pause() after await once(child, "exit")) kept the late bytes in the socket, and with the count 'close' never came. Node emits 'close' there. stdout and stderr do not have this problem: Subprocess::on_process_exit reads them before it calls onExit.

Probes on Linux x64 (Node v26.3.0 / Bun 1.4.3 / this PR, debug build), each a standalone script, three runs or more:

case Node 1.4.3 PR
parent reads stdio[3] on 'data', acts on 'close' data at 'close' empty at 'close' data at 'close'
fd 3's bytes are in the parent's stream at 'exit' (nobody reads) yes no yes
a grandchild holds fd 3 and writes after the parent's 'exit' 'close' waits 'close' at exit 'close' waits
parent starts to read fd 3 inside an 'exit' listener gets the bytes empty at 'close' gets the bytes
nobody reads fd 3 'close' 'close', pipe still open 'close'
parent read one chunk and paused fd 3 rest delivered, 'close' 'close' without the rest rest delivered, 'close'
pause() on fd 3 inside an 'exit' listener 'close' 'close', pipe still open 'close'
readline on fd 3, rl.close() after await once(child, "exit") 2 lines, 'close' 0 lines, 'close' 2 lines, 'close'
'readable' listener on fd 3, never read no 'close' 'close' no 'close'
fork with 'ipc' and a pipe at index 4 message, disconnect, exit, close same as Node
fd 3 passed as stdin of a second spawn, 400 KB second child gets all second child gets all

Also with this PR: 150 KB unread on fd 3, kill() with unread bytes, destroy() of stdio[3] at once, 200 spawns with an unread fd 3 (200 'exit', 200 'close'). Eight shapes of an 'exit' listener on fd 3 (pause() with and without a 'data' listener, pause() then resume() later, 'readable', for await, pipe() into a slow Writable, 'data'): seven give Node's output. With for await started in 'exit', the bytes arrive right after 'close' instead of before it, as on 1.4.3.

Differences from Node that stay.

  • stdout and stderr are resumed before 'exit' is emitted. A pause() on child.stdout inside an 'exit' listener holds 'close' on Bun 1.4.3 and with this PR. This exists for every spawn and is separate work.
  • Node stops reading a stream once it is passed as stdio to a second spawn. Bun keeps reading it in the parent, as before. This PR only makes sure the new resume skips such a pipe.
  • spawnSync has no 'close' event and is not changed. The count for the IPC channel is not changed.

Suites (bun bd test, debug build):

  • test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts: the seven new tests pass. With the base child_process.ts six fail. The seventh guards the skip for a pipe passed to a second spawn and fails without that skip. Two other tests fail with and without the change on my machine (spawn still works with more than 10240 fds open, extra stdio pipes are not double-closed on GC, a 5 s timeout in the debug build).
  • child-process-stdio.test.js, child_process-node.test.js, child_process_ipc.test.js, child_process_ipc_large_disconnect.test.js, child_process_send_cb.test.js, child-process-exec.test.ts: all pass.
  • test/js/node/test/parallel/test-child-process-*.js, 99 files run directly: 96 exit 0. The other three (bad-stdio, emfile, windows-hide) exit non-zero with the base file too.
  • tsc --noEmit -p src/js/tsconfig.json and oxlint on child_process.ts: clean.

Not run.

  • Windows and macOS. Four of the seven tests run on Windows in CI, with a Bun child that writes to fd 3.
  • perf, valgrind, strace and bloaty are not installed in my container, so there are no instruction or syscall counts from me. The binary size number is from the CI annotation.
  • A design review of the alternatives did not reach a verdict. The choice between them is argued in Background.

no test proof · iteration 5 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts

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ChildProcess now schedules exit handling differently when extra stdio pipes exist, resumes eligible extra pipes after exit, and includes socket-fd sockets in close tracking. Tests cover extra-pipe data delivery and lifecycle event ordering.

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Extra stdio lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Extra stdio scheduling and close tracking
src/js/node/child_process.ts
When an extra pipe exists, exit handling uses setImmediate. After exit, readable extra pipes are resumed unless they are marked as child stdio. Socket-fd sockets now count toward close tracking.
Extra-pipe lifecycle tests
test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts
Adds tests for late data, listeners attached after exit, unread and paused pipes, readline closure, and pipes passed to another child. Tests check data delivery and close-event ordering.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9b321

The change fixes extra stdio pipes closing too early, but passing those pipes to another child has two edge cases. If the second spawn fails, the original child's 'close' can stall. If the pipe is already being read, the new child can receive incomplete input. Address both before merging.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 9b321ab has 4 failures in Build #123598 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 33614

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-33614 executable, so you can run:

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LGTM — mirrors the stdout/stderr close-accounting for extra pipe fds, with a solid regression test.

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Overview

This PR touches two files: a 4-line functional change in src/js/node/child_process.ts (the default: branch of #getBunSpawnIo for stdio index >= 3) and a new regression test in test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts. The fix wraps the extra-fd net.Socket creation in a block, increments #closesNeeded, and registers a once('close', () => this.#maybeClose()) listener — an exact copy of what the case 1/case 2 branch already does for stdout/stderr.

Security risks

None. No user input parsing, no auth/crypto/permissions, no new external surface. The change only affects internal event-ordering bookkeeping for extra stdio pipes.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. This is a small Node.js-compat correctness fix in a built-in JS module, following an established in-file pattern. The main risk to check was double-counting: #getBunSpawnIo for i>=3 is only reached via #createStdioObject(), which is cached behind the .stdio getter (and further replaced by an own data property on first access), so each extra fd is materialized exactly once. The eager for (let item of this.stdio) loop in spawn() runs synchronously after Bun.spawn succeeds, so #closesNeeded is fully populated before any #maybeClose() call. The fd == null early return precedes the increment, so failed/absent handles don't inflate the count.

Other factors

The test is well-constructed per repo guidelines: wires 'error' to reject, awaits the actual observable conditions (close + all four end promises), asserts exact byte content on every fd and strict ordering (end<i> before close), and is skipIf(isWindows) consistent with the neighboring extra-stdio tests. The PR description demonstrates the failure on the released binary and the match with Node's documented semantics. No CODEOWNERS cover these paths, no outstanding reviewer comments, and the bug-hunting system found nothing.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/js/node/child_process.ts`:
- Around line 1267-1278: Extract the repeated close-tracking logic in
ChildProcess by adding a small private helper (for example, a method used by the
stdout/stderr pipe branch and the new "socket-fd" branch) that increments
`#closesNeeded` and registers the once("close", () => this.#maybeClose()) handler.
Update both call sites in the child_process handling code to use that helper so
the counting and close callback setup live in one place.

In `@test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts`:
- Line 735: The subprocess-spawning test is still defined as a sequential test
even though it can run concurrently. Update the "'close' waits for extra stdio
pipes (index >= 3) to end" test in child_process.test.ts to use test.concurrent
with the existing skipIf(isWindows) wrapper, so it follows the concurrent-test
guideline without changing the test behavior.
- Around line 735-768: The test in child_process.test.ts leaves the spawned
ChildProcess unmanaged, so it may survive if an assertion fails before close
completes. Update the spawn usage in the test body to register the returned
ChildProcess with using/await using immediately, leveraging
ChildProcess.[Symbol.dispose]() for automatic cleanup while keeping the rest of
the assertions and close/end ordering checks in the same test.
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LGTM — mirrors the stdout/stderr close-accounting pattern for extra stdio pipes.

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Overview

This PR touches two files: a 4-line runtime change in src/js/node/child_process.ts (the default: branch of #getBunSpawnIo for stdio index ≥ 3) and a new test in test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts. The runtime change wraps the existing case "pipe"/"socket-fd" body in a block, stores the net.connect({ fd }) result in a local, increments #closesNeeded, and registers socket.once("close", () => this.#maybeClose()) before returning it — byte-for-byte the same accounting the case 1/2 (stdout/stderr) branch already does.

Security risks

None. No user-controlled input parsing, no auth/crypto/permissions, no new external I/O. The change only adjusts when an internal counter is incremented and when an event listener is attached to an internally-created socket.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. This is a small Node.js-compat correctness fix in the JS-side node:child_process shim, not native/memory-sensitive code. The pattern being applied is copied verbatim from the adjacent stdout/stderr branch, so there's no novel mechanism to reason about. I verified that .stdio (and thus #getBunSpawnIo for i≥3) is eagerly materialized exactly once during spawn() via hasSocketsToEagerlyLoad before onExit runs on nextTick, so #closesNeeded is bumped before any #maybeClose() call and there's no double-increment (the stdio getter caches #stdioObject). net.Socket always emits 'close' (including on error/destroy), so the counter cannot get stuck.

Other factors

  • No CODEOWNERS coverage for these paths.
  • The bug-hunting system found no issues.
  • The test is well-constructed: awaits real conditions (per-stream end promises + child close), wires error to reject, snapshots data and ordering at close time, and asserts every end<i> precedes close. Skipped on Windows (uses /bin/sh fd redirection), which matches the neighboring extra-stdio tests.
  • No outstanding human review comments on the timeline.

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Status: head 9b321ab has the complete fix. Checked on Linux x64. Windows and macOS wait for CI.

Repro for the reported case. Node v26.3.0 and this head print ["","A","B","CCC","DDD"]. Bun 1.4.3 prints ["","A","B","",""].

import * as cp from "node:child_process";
const c = cp.spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", "printf A; printf B >&2; printf CCC >&3; printf DDD >&4"], {
  stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "pipe", "pipe", "pipe"],
});
const got = ["", "", "", "", ""];
for (const i of [1, 2, 3, 4]) c.stdio[i].on("data", d => (got[i] += d));
c.on("close", () => console.log(JSON.stringify(got)));

Repro for the case that earlier heads of this PR got wrong: the parent does not read the extra pipe. Node v26.3.0, Bun 1.4.3 and this head print one line. The first head (3c016d5) printed nothing.

import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
import { once } from "node:events";
(async () => {
  const c = spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", "echo result; echo progress >&3"], { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "inherit", "pipe"] });
  let out = "";
  c.stdout.on("data", d => (out += d));
  await once(c, "close");
  console.log("close came; stdout = " + JSON.stringify(out));
})();

The PR description lists the other cases that were checked against Node.

…at exit

Node emits 'close' after the process has ended and every stdio stream
has closed. It counts the socket of each stdio pipe at spawn. After
'exit' it resumes each stdio stream that nobody reads, so that the
stream reaches EOF and closes (flushStdio).

ChildProcess did both steps for stdout and stderr only. A pipe at stdio
index 3 or higher was not counted, so 'close' fired before its data
arrived.

Count the socket of each extra pipe in #getBunSpawnIo. In #handleOnExit,
resume each extra pipe that is still readable, next to the same step
for stdout and stderr. Without the second step a pipe with unread bytes
never ends and 'close' never fires.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline nits, I also checked the two behavior changes this introduces for extra pipes and they match Node: 'close' now waits while a grandchild still holds the fd (Node's _closesNeeded counts every stdio handle at index > 0), and a reader attached only inside the 'close' handler sees no data (Node's flushStdio resumes every readable stdio stream after exit). The lazy-creation timing of #closesNeeded++ is not a concern in practice: spawn() materializes this.stdio eagerly whenever the stdio array has 3 or more entries, so the extra sockets and their counts exist before any exit accounting starts.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the node:child_process builtin ('close' accounting and the post-exit drain in src/js/node/child_process.ts) plus four new subprocess tests; no security-sensitive surface. Two nits are posted inline and one verified finding went unposted, so approval is not appropriate; the note records the Node-parity and eager-materialization checks that ruled out the remaining behavioral concerns.

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Node resumes the stdio streams that nobody reads on the tick after
'exit' (flushStdio), not before the 'exit' listeners run. Do the same
for the pipes at stdio index 3 or higher.

With the resume before 'exit', a pause() inside an 'exit' listener left
the unread bytes in the socket. The socket never ended and 'close' never
fired. Node emits 'close' in that case.

The tests now read stderr too, and the two tests for an unread pipe
check that the pipe closed before 'close'. All five fail without the
change in src.
libuv runs a child's exit callback after the other I/O callbacks of the
same poll, so in Node 'exit' fires after the pipes got what the child
wrote. Bun's loop has no such order: the socket of a pipe at stdio index
3 or higher could get its bytes after 'exit'. A parent that paused the
pipe after 'exit' (readline.close(), unpipe(), pause()) then kept those
bytes in the socket, and 'close' never fired.

When the child has such a pipe, handle the exit after the current poll.

Mark a stream that is passed as stdio to a spawn, and do not resume a
marked pipe after 'exit': the second child reads it now. Node does the
same with kIsUsedAsStdio.
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@robobun robobun changed the title child_process: wait for extra stdio pipes before emitting 'close' child_process: count extra stdio pipes toward 'close' and flush them after 'exit' Oct 6, 2026
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@dylan-conway This PR overlaps #42819 in src/js/node/child_process.ts. This note is for the rebase of whichever lands second.

  • Remove libuv on Windows #42819 adds the same count for the pipes above stderr (#closesNeeded++ and the 'close' listener in #getBunSpawnIo). It resumes those pipes in the drain block of #handleOnExit, before 'exit' is emitted.
  • This PR has the count too. It resumes the pipes on the tick after 'exit', and it handles the exit after the current poll. With the resume before 'exit' alone, a pause() on the pipe inside an 'exit' listener holds 'close' forever. Node and main emit 'close' there.

Two things to watch in the rebase:

  1. Keep one #closesNeeded++ for the extra pipe. With two, 'close' never fires. Git reports this hunk as a conflict.
  2. The resume loop in the drain block of #handleOnExit becomes redundant, because the flush after 'exit' covers it. Git does not report it: this PR does not touch those lines.

The tests in the block 'close' and extra stdio pipes (index >= 3) fail if the count is doubled or if the flush after 'exit' is lost.

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- Line 1820: Update nodeToBun so the stdio marker is set only after Bun.spawn
succeeds, or clear it on every failed-spawn path. Preserve the marker for
streams successfully handed off, so flushStdioPipe can flush pipes after a
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const fd = streamFdOf(item);
if (fd !== undefined) return fd;
if (fd !== undefined) {
(item as any)[kIsUsedAsStdio] = true;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not retain the stdio marker when spawn fails.

nodeToBun() sets this marker before Bun.spawn() runs. If Bun.spawn() fails, no child takes the fd, but the original pipe remains marked. When the original child exits with unread extra-pipe data, flushStdioPipe() skips that pipe. Its tracked socket can keep the original child’s 'close' pending. Mark the stream only after a successful handoff, or clear the marker on every failed-spawn path.

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Update nodeToBun so the stdio marker is set only after Bun.spawn succeeds, or
clear it on every failed-spawn path. Preserve the marker for streams
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Pause the source stream when passing its fd to another child.

If an extra pipe is already flowing, setting kIsUsedAsStdio does not stop its socket from reading. The socket and the new child can then compete for the same bytes. The new child can receive incomplete input. Pause the source stream as part of a successful fd handoff. Node’s handoff pauses the source stream before marking it as used for stdio. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In the fd handoff path around kIsUsedAsStdio, pause the source stream after the
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const onExit = (exitCode, signalCode, err) => this.#handleOnExit(exitCode, signalCode, err);
// After the other I/O of this poll, as libuv orders it: an extra pipe (index >= 3) then has what the child wrote.
if (this.#hasExtraPipe()) setImmediate(onExit, exitCode, signalCode, err);

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🔴 Test suites that install fake timers (sinon/@ sinonjs/fake-timers default install() replaces globalThis.setImmediate) now never get 'exit' or 'close' for a child with an extra stdio pipe. src/js/node/child_process.ts:1503 looks up the global setImmediate at call time, so a user stub captures the exit dispatch; the base used process.nextTick, which fake-timers leaves alone, and Node emits 'exit' straight from the handle callback. Fix: capture the timer at module load (const setImmediateGlobal = globalThis.setImmediate as src/js/node/timers.promises.ts:8 does) and dispatch through that, keeping internal event delivery independent of user-replaceable globals.

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The parent runs under sinon fake timers (sinon.useFakeTimers() or @ sinonjs/fake-timers install(), whose default toFake list replaces setImmediate but not process.nextTick) and spawns a child with stdio such as ["pipe","pipe","pipe","pipe"]. When the child exits, onExit at src/js/node/child_process.ts:1501-1504 finds #hasExtraPipe() true and calls the bare global setImmediate at :1503, which is now the fake clock's stub; #handleOnExit is queued on the fake clock and never runs until the test advances it. The user sees no 'exit', exitCode stays null, and 'close' never arrives because #maybeClose at :1236 is never reached. On the base branch the same spawn dispatched #handleOnExit through process.nextTick, which fake-timers does not replace, so 'exit' fired. Node is unaffected because its onexit handler emits 'exit' synchronously from the process handle callback and only flushStdio goes through nextTick. src/js/node/timers.promises.ts:8 already captures globalThis.setImmediate at module load for this reason; nothing in child_process.ts does.

Verification: The parent has replaced globalThis.setImmediate (sinon/@ sinonjs/fake-timers default install), spawns with an extra "pipe" at index >= 3, and touches child.stdio. src/js/node/child_process.ts:1503 now dispatches exit through bare setImmediate, so a user-installed stub receives it and #handleOnExit never runs; 'exit' and 'close' hang. On the base, 'exit' was delivered via process.nextTick, which sinon leaves alone.

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if (fd !== undefined) {
(item as any)[kIsUsedAsStdio] = true;

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🔴 A parent that hands an extra-fd socket to spawnSync, or to a spawn that throws synchronously, can then never get the first child's 'close' after this merge. nodeToBun at src/js/node/child_process.ts:1820 sets kIsUsedAsStdio on every stream with an fd, and spawnSync (line 564) and the async path both go through it before any child exists; the flag is never cleared, so flushStdioPipe (line 1760) skips the socket after 'exit' even though no child reads it anymore, while #closesNeeded (line 1339) still waits for it. Fix: mark a stream as used-as-stdio only in ChildProcess#spawn once Bun.spawn has returned a handle (not in nodeToBun), so the spawnSync path and a failed spawn leave the stream unflagged and the post-'exit' flush can drain it.

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Trigger: first = spawn(cmd, {stdio:["ignore","ignore","inherit","pipe"]}) whose child writes to fd 3 and then the parent calls spawnSync(other, {stdio:[first.stdio[3], ...]}) (spawnSync builds its stdio via getBunStdioFromOptions at src/js/node/child_process.ts:564, which calls nodeToBun for each entry), or calls spawn() with that socket where Bun.spawn throws synchronously. nodeToBun at line 1820 writes (item as any)[kIsUsedAsStdio] = true on the net.Socket at that moment and nothing ever removes it. After spawnSync returns, no process reads the pipe any more, yet when first exits, #handleOnExit schedules flushStdioPipe (line 1232) which returns without resume because pipe[kIsUsedAsStdio] is true (line 1760). The socket keeps its unread bytes, never reaches EOF, never emits 'close', and because #getBunSpawnIo incremented #closesNeeded for it at line 1339, first never emits 'close'. On the base branch #closesNeeded did not count the socket, so 'close' still fired (early, but it fired).

Verification: nodeToBun (src/js/node/child_process.ts:1817-1822) marks any stream that resolves to an fd: (item as any)[kIsUsedAsStdio] = true; return fd;. spawnSync calls it at line 564 before Bun.spawnSync. Nothing in the file ever clears the symbol (only set at 1820, read at 1760). Before this PR the default branch did not increment #closesNeeded, so 'close' fired without waiting for index>=3 sockets.

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const fd = streamFdOf(item);
if (fd !== undefined) return fd;
if (fd !== undefined) {
(item as any)[kIsUsedAsStdio] = true;

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: Pre-existing, in code this PR extends: a second child given a first child's extra pipe as stdio still loses the bytes the parent's socket reads first. nodeToBun at src/js/node/child_process.ts:1820 only sets kIsUsedAsStdio and returns the fd; the parent's net.Socket for that pipe keeps reading natively, so both it and the new child drain the same socketpair. Node's spawn also calls readStop() and pause() on the wrapped stream so the parent stops competing. Fix: when a net.Socket wrap stream is handed to a spawn, stop the parent's native reads (handle pause/readStop plus pause()) at the mark site, for both spawn and spawnSync callers of nodeToBun.
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Why this was flagged

The user spawns first with stdio ["ignore","ignore","inherit","pipe"] whose child writes to fd 3, then calls spawn(cmd, { stdio: [first.stdio[3], ...] }) so the second child reads that pipe. At spawn time src/js/node/child_process.ts:1538 already created the parent-end socket via NetModule.connect({ fd }) at src/js/node/child_process.ts:1338; without pauseOnConnect that native socket reads whenever the fd is readable and SocketHandlers.data at src/js/node/net.ts:1511 pushes into the Readable buffer, stopping only when push returns false (readStop at src/js/node/net.ts:657). nodeToBun at src/js/node/child_process.ts:1817-1822 marks the stream and returns item._handle.fd; nothing calls the native pause. So the second child and the parent socket compete for the same open file description and the second child gets only the bytes the parent did not take. The base branch has the same competition; this PR ports only the flag half of Node's handling, and its test at test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts:1470-1486 never writes to the pipe so it does not observe the loss.

Verification: pre-existing (same route on base; this PR touches the exact site). Trigger: a parent spawns child A with an extra "pipe" at index >= 3, then passes A.stdio[3] as stdio of a second spawn while A still writes to that fd. nodeToBun at child_process.ts:1817-1822 only does (item as any)[kIsUsedAsStdio] = true; return fd; with no readStop. Bytes A writes are split between the parent's Readable buffer and child B.

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