Bun.write: poll instead of spin when a nonblocking stdout pipe returns EAGAIN

[robobun]

Problem

• Once process.stdout.write has run, fd 1 is O_NONBLOCK. A Bun.write(Bun.stdout, big) that overflows the pipe wedges every pool thread at 100% CPU and the promise never resolves. strace shows the pool threads spinning with zero syscalls and main parked in epoll_wait.
• Three causes. WriteFile::run_with_fd (src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs) derived could_block from seekable, which the stdio stores do not set, so on EAGAIN do_write looped on write() at 100% CPU instead of parking. ReadFile::do_read re-matched one cached read() result in its loop and never re-issued the syscall. Two concurrent WriteFiles on one fd both registered fd 1 with the IO thread's epoll, and the second got EEXIST.
• The sync fast path in Blob.rs (write_{string,bytes}_to_file_fast) set needs_async after a partial write. The async path then re-sent the whole payload and the prefix went out twice.

Fix

• do_write and do_read: EAGAIN is impossible on a regular file, so on EAGAIN set could_block = true and park on the IO loop. The cached-result loop is gone.
• run_with_fd: derive could_block from mode. Dup every caller-supplied fd so each WriteFile polls a private fd number. is_allowed_to_close closes the dup on finish.
• Fast path: report the byte count already written. write_file_internal passes it to write_file_with_source_destination, which seeds WriteFile.total_written, so the async write resumes at that offset. The JS thread never blocks in poll.
• Verified: test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js, three new tests. On stock bun the stdout test receives 4413569 bytes instead of 4194305 (the re-sent prefix), and the 200 KiB FIFO test hangs. Also ran all of test/js/bun/io/.

Background

• Bun.write(dest, data) for data under 256 KiB first tries a synchronous write() loop on the JS thread. On EAGAIN it falls back to WriteFile, a thread-pool task that writes and, when the fd is a pipe or socket, waits for writability on the IO thread's epoll/kqueue.
• could_block tells WriteFile whether the fd can be polled. Regular files cannot be added to epoll, so the flag gates every wait_for_writable call.
• O_NONBLOCK lives on the open file description, which dups share. process.stdout's FileSink sets it on a dup of fd 1, so fd 1 itself becomes nonblocking.

Notes

Repro for the wedge:

// bun repro.mjs | (sleep 2; cat >/dev/null)   -> never exits, every core at 100%
process.stdout.write("x");
const big = Buffer.alloc(1024 * 1024, 65).toString();
await Promise.all(Array.from({ length: 20 }, () => Bun.write(Bun.stdout, big)));

Earlier revisions of this PR finished a partial fast-path write synchronously with poll(POLLOUT, -1). Review pointed out that this blocks the JS thread, and when the pipe's only reader depends on that event loop it never returns. The FIFO test (bun-write-fifo-fixture.js) covers that case: the reader is Bun.file(path).stream() in the same process. The payload is a byte counter modulo 251, so a re-sent prefix breaks the sequence where it restarts. The fixture stops at size bytes and does not wait for EOF: on macOS the stream reader did not see EOF after every writer closed, with the dup already closed (checked by inode), which is outside this change.

The stdout test counts fds that share stdout's inode rather than all fds. A plain count also sees the IO thread's kqueue or epoll fd, created the first time a write has to wait. On macOS fstat reports a kqueue as S_IFIFO, which looked like a leaked pipe dup until the inode check.

The dup is unconditional for caller-supplied fds because Bun.file(rawFd) stores can have mode == 0. could_block is then only learned from the first EAGAIN, and the fd must already be private at that point. The stdout test asserts fdDelta=0 across a round of writes to check the dup is released.

Windows is unaffected. Its async write path is libuv's uv_fs_write, and it has no sync fast path.

Related: #35949 keeps stdio writes on the sync fast path for regular files. #32890 stops Bun.write from truncating an fd destination for an empty source.

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Changes

The write path now preserves partial progress across synchronous and asynchronous nonblocking I/O. Descriptor retry handling and FIFO regression tests cover continuation and resource behavior.

POSIX I/O retry handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Descriptor and retry handling src/runtime/webcore/blob/read_file.rs, src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs	Read and write retry results update blocking state. Caller descriptors can be duplicated for private polling, and closure rules distinguish paths from descriptors.
Partial write resumption src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs	String and byte fast paths return resume offsets. Asynchronous writes continue from partial progress, while missing-path and Windows paths start at offset zero.
Pipe regression coverage test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js, test/js/bun/io/bun-write-fifo-fixture.js	Subprocess and FIFO tests verify complete output, partial-write resumption, descriptor stability, and successful completion.

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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

• 🟡 test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js:762-769 — The PR description states "fd count before/after 160 such writes is unchanged", but this test only asserts {length, stderr, exitCode, signalCode} — there is no fd-count check. Since run_with_fd now dups caller-supplied pollable fds and relies on is_allowed_to_close's new opened_fd != fd branch to release them, consider having the child compare readdirSync(process.platform === 'darwin' ? '/dev/fd' : '/proc/self/fd').length before and after the Promise.all and emit the delta on stderr so a regression in that predicate would fail CI.

  Extended reasoning...

  What the gap is

  This PR introduces a new resource-acquisition path: when the destination is a caller-supplied pollable fd (e.g. Bun.stdout backed by a pipe), run_with_fd now calls bun_sys::dup(fd) so each concurrent WriteFile owns a private fd number for the epoll/kqueue interest set. The paired release lives in the newly-extended is_allowed_to_close:

  PathOrFileDescriptor::Fd(fd) => {
      self.opened_fd != Fd::INVALID && self.opened_fd != fd
  }

  The PR description's Verification section states "fd count before/after 160 such writes is unchanged", but the added test at test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js:762-769 asserts only {length, stderr, exitCode, signalCode}. There is no fd-count assertion anywhere in the child script or the parent — the claim is a manual verification.

  Why it matters

  REVIEW.md is explicit on both points:

  "Verified manually", unnamed "existing tests", and benchmarks don't count, even for one-liners.

  Pair every acquisition with its release at the acquisition site … a struct gaining an owning field wires its release into … ALL lifecycle exits … in the same commit.

  If the opened_fd != fd comparison ever regresses (e.g. someone refactors is_allowed_to_close back to pathlike.is_path(), or opened_fd gets reset to the store fd before on_finish), every large Bun.write(Bun.stdout, ...) to a nonblocking pipe leaks one fd and no test catches it.

  Step-by-step: what a regression would look like

  1. Child runs process.stdout.write("x") → fd 1's open file description is now O_NONBLOCK.
  2. Child fires 8 × Bun.write(Bun.stdout, large) (≥ 256 KiB each → thread-pool WriteFile path).
  3. For each, run_with_fd sees caller_supplied_fd && could_block → bun_sys::dup(1) → opened_fd = 4, 5, 6, ….
  4. Each write completes; on_finish calls do_close(is_allowed_to_close()).
  5. Today: opened_fd (4) != store fd (1) → true → dup is closed. ✅
  6. Regressed: predicate returns false → dup is never closed → fd 4, 5, 6, … leak.
  7. Test still passes: stdout.length, stderr, exitCode, signalCode are all unchanged by an fd leak.

  Suggested fix

  Have the child sample the fd table around the Promise.all and emit it on stderr (harness already has getFDCount(), but the child is a -e script so inline it):

  const fdDir = process.platform === 'darwin' ? '/dev/fd' : '/proc/self/fd';
  const before = require('fs').readdirSync(fdDir).length;
  const wrote = await Promise.all(ps);
  const after = require('fs').readdirSync(fdDir).length;
  process.stderr.write("wrote=" + wrote.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) + " fdDelta=" + (after - before));

  Then assert stderr: "wrote=" + (expected - 1) + " fdDelta=0" in the parent. This backs the PR description's claim with an automated assertion and guards the new acquisition/release pair going forward.

  Severity

  nit — the primary behavioral change (spin-wedge → poll → completes) is covered by an automated test that fails on the unfixed build with SIGKILL. This is a coverage-hardening ask for the secondary dup lifecycle; the release logic is straightforward and correct as written.

• 🟡 src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs:480-491 — The dup-for-polling guard if self.could_block && caller_supplied_fd is evaluated using could_block = file.mode != 0 && ..., but Bun.file(rawFd) for a non-stdio fd never populates mode (it stays 0 via File::init's ..Default::default()), so the dup is skipped. Then do_write flips could_block = true on the first EAGAIN and calls wait_for_writable() on the original caller-supplied fd — two concurrent Bun.write(Bun.file(pipeFd), ...) calls hit the exact EEXIST/udata-clobber collision the dup was added to prevent. Consider dupping unconditionally when caller_supplied_fd, or dupping lazily in do_write before the first wait_for_writable() when opened_fd still equals the store fd.

  Extended reasoning...

  What the bug is

  The PR adds a dup() in run_with_fd so that each WriteFile targeting a caller-supplied pollable fd owns a private fd number for epoll/kqueue registration. The guard is:

  if self.could_block && caller_supplied_fd {
      match bun_sys::dup(fd) { ... self.opened_fd = duped ... }
  }

  where could_block was just computed as file.mode != 0 && !bun_sys::is_regular_file(file.mode). This works for Bun.stdout/Bun.stderr because their stores are constructed via the stdio ctor which fstat()s up front and populates mode. But for Bun.file(rawFd) where rawFd > 2, mode is never populated.

  The code path

  Bun.file(fd) for fd > 2 → find_or_create_file_from_path (Blob.rs:3754-3776) — fd.stdio_tag() is None, so it falls through to Store::init_file(PathOrFileDescriptor::Fd(fd), None) → File::init (webcore_types.rs:788):

  pub fn init(pathlike: PathOrFileDescriptor, mime_type: Option<MimeType>) -> File {
      File { pathlike, mime_type: ..., ..Default::default() }  // mode: 0
  }

  Nothing along the write_file_internal → WriteFile::run_with_fd path stats the destination, so mode stays 0 when the guard executes.

  Step-by-step

  Take two concurrent Bun.write(Bun.file(pipeFd), Buffer.alloc(256*1024)) calls where pipeFd is the write end of an O_NONBLOCK pipe (fd 7, say):

  1. Both reach run_with_fd. caller_supplied_fd = true, file.mode == 0 → could_block = (0 != 0 && ...) = false.
  2. The dup guard if false && true fails; opened_fd stays 7 for both.
  3. Both call do_write_loop → do_write → sys::write(7, ...). The first write partially succeeds; a subsequent one returns EAGAIN.
  4. do_write's EAGAIN arm now sets self.could_block = true and calls self.wait_for_writable(), which schedules on_request_writable → io::Action::Writable { fd: 7, poll: &mut self.io_poll, ... }.
  5. Both WriteFile instances register fd 7 with the IO thread's epoll set. On Linux the second EPOLL_CTL_ADD returns EEXIST (surfaces as a rejected promise); on kqueue the second registration overwrites the first's udata, so the losing instance's poll never fires and its promise never settles.

  This is exactly bug (3) from the PR description, just for a store whose mode was never populated.

  Why existing code doesn't prevent it

  The dup is gated on the initial value of could_block, but do_write can flip could_block to true after run_with_fd has already decided not to dup. is_allowed_to_close is safe here (it returns false since opened_fd == store fd, so the caller's fd is not accidentally closed), but that just means the fd isn't leaked — it doesn't help with the epoll collision.

  Impact and severity

  This is not a regression: before this PR, the same scenario hit the infinite-spin bug (the old EAGAIN && !could_block => continue re-matched a cached result forever), which is strictly worse. After this PR, single writes to Bun.file(nonStdioPipeFd) work where they didn't before, and only the concurrent case can still fail (with a clean error on Linux rather than a wedge). The trigger — a user-owned nonblocking pipe/socket fd > 2 with concurrent ≥256 KiB Bun.write calls — is narrow. Marking as a nit, but per REVIEW.md's "fix the whole class in the same PR" rule the sibling case is worth closing here since the fix is trivial.

  Fix

  Either:

  • dup unconditionally when caller_supplied_fd (an extra dup on a regular-file fd is cheap and never registered anyway), or
  • dup lazily in do_write right before the first wait_for_writable() when self.opened_fd still equals the store's fd.

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In `@src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs`:
- Around line 5445-5461: The EAGAIN handling in write_string_to_file_fast at
src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs#L5445-L5461 and write_bytes_to_file_fast at
src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs#L5531-L5545 must not block with poll(..., -1) after
partial writes. Remove the synchronous POLLOUT polling and route any EAGAIN,
including after partial progress, through the existing async path so the
main-thread Bun.write() fast path yields instead of blocking.

In `@src/runtime/webcore/blob/write_file.rs`:
- Around line 447-477: Update the caller_supplied_fd handling in run_with_fd so
the private dup occurs only when the fd-backed blob has could_block true;
regular-file descriptors must retain the existing non-polling path without
dup/close overhead. Verify that file.mode is populated from the earlier fstat
for fd-backed blobs before this logic runs, and preserve do_write’s RETRY
behavior when mode remains unknown.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline timeout nit: the fast-path poll(POLLOUT, -1) after a partial write (coderabbitai's unresolved comment on Blob.rs:5461) was examined — falling through to needs_async there would re-send bytes already committed, and the payload is <256 KiB by construction, so the bounded block is the correct tradeoff here. The unconditional dup on caller-supplied fds (coderabbitai's other comment) is deliberate per the earlier thread — Bun.file(rawFd) stores have mode == 0, so gating on could_block would leave those un-duped and reintroduce the epoll EEXIST collision.

Extended reasoning...

The two unresolved coderabbitai comments overlap with concerns already worked through on this PR. The poll(-1)-blocks-main-thread finding was raised by a finder and refuted by verifiers: the fast path only reaches that branch after a partial write on a <256 KiB payload, and the alternative (setting needs_async and returning) hands the full original buffer to WriteFile, duplicating whatever was already written — that's the bug the branch exists to avoid. The unconditional-dup-for-regular-file-fds observation is the intentional flip side of the fix I asked for earlier (dup regardless of the upfront could_block guess so mode==0 stores are covered); a dup+close per Bun.write to a raw fd is cheap relative to the write itself. Leaving approval to a human given this reshapes fd ownership and is_allowed_to_close semantics on a hot I/O path.

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CI status: build #82571 finished with 195/196 lanes passing. The only failure is the binary-size check, which is comparing against a stale main baseline (build #79916; current main is #81770) and fails on unrelated PRs the same way (e.g. #82551, #82554). This diff is net -6 lines across four files and cannot account for 500+ KB on every target.

The flaky-retry annotation lists in-process-cron.test.ts, require-cache.test.ts, multi-run.test.ts and 20144.test.ts, all of which passed on retry and none of which touch blob I/O. The new test in bun-write.test.js passed on every lane.

Ready for review; the binary-size baseline needs a refresh independent of this change.

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Heads-up for the rebase: #37128 routes Bun.write(Bun.stdout, string | buffer) through the shared stdio sink, so once it lands the test here (which triggers the spin through process.stdout + Bun.write(Bun.stdout, ...)) will pass without the write_file.rs change. The spin itself is unaffected by #37128 (it does not touch blob/write_file.rs) and still reproduces on current main without going through stdio, which would make a more durable test:

import { openSync, readSync, constants } from "node:fs";
// fifo created with mkfifo beforehand
const rfd = openSync(fifo, constants.O_RDONLY | constants.O_NONBLOCK);
const wfd = openSync(fifo, constants.O_WRONLY | constants.O_NONBLOCK);
const done = Bun.write(Bun.file(wfd), Buffer.alloc(1024 * 1024, "A"));
// drain rfd from a setInterval; `done` never resolves, one pool thread sits at 100% CPU,
// and the reader only ever receives the first partial write (8192 bytes here).

Closed #35956 today as superseded by #37128; its write_file.rs hunk was the same fix as this PR's, so this PR and #36025 are where that fix lives now.

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@robobun rebase

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Rebasing on main now.

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Rebased on main and squashed. Follow-ups since the rebase:

• 2f15c6d: the readiness check and preallocation use the duped fd. Test cleanups from review.
• 085d290: the sync fast path no longer blocks in poll after a partial write. It hands the remaining bytes to the async WriteFile, which resumes at the written offset.
• 9129a14: macOS test fixes. The stdout test counts only fds that share stdout's inode (a plain fd count also saw the IO thread's kqueue, which fstat reports as S_IFIFO on macOS). The FIFO fixture validates a byte sequence instead of waiting for EOF.

test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js passes on Linux and on both macOS lanes in builds 110561 and 110565. The red lanes in those builds are unrelated tests (grpc-js, a Node http2 test, and retried flakes). Ready for review.

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- Line 464: After successful duplication in the match arm assigning
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Linux preallocation logic, while leaving the error path unchanged.

In `@test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js`:
- Line 1210: Remove the trailing 30_000 per-test timeout argument from the
affected test while preserving the child-process timeout guard and all other
test arguments.
- Line 1179: Replace the inline require in the fdCount helper with a
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[claude]

I re-reviewed after 085d290/b4d2b0c5 and didn't find any bugs — the poll(POLLOUT, -1) JS-thread block is gone, resume_async_at is threaded through to WriteFile.total_written so the async path resumes at the fast path's UTF-8 byte offset, and the new FIFO fixture covers the same-event-loop-reader deadlock I flagged. All six of my earlier inline points look addressed (read_file.rs twin, unconditional dup, fdDelta assertion, 20s timeout). Given this touches fd ownership across the thread pool and the IO thread's epoll interest set, a human pass on the dup/is_allowed_to_close lifecycle is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed

• do_write_loop_posix uses off = total_written.min(len), so seeding total_written = already_written correctly skips the fast-path prefix and the resolved value is the full byte count.
• Both callers of write_file_with_source_destination updated (write_file_internal, WriteFileWaitFromLockedValueTask::then passes 0); Windows arm debug_assert_eq!(already_written, 0) holds because the fast path is #[cfg(not(windows))].
• bun_sys::dup failure path calls on_finish() before return, so the promise settles and the pool ref is released.
• Fixture: rfd is never read (only holds the FIFO open for the O_WRONLY|O_NONBLOCK open), so the stream reader receives all bytes; closeSync(wfd) before await drained gives EOF.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Commits 085d290 and b4d2b0c replaced the earlier revision's poll(POLLOUT, -1) (which I flagged as a JS-thread deadlock) with the approach I suggested: the sync fast-path helpers now report an Option<usize> byte offset, write_file_internal threads it through as already_written, and write_file_with_source_destination seeds WriteFile.total_written so do_write_loop_posix resumes at that offset. A new bun-write-fifo-fixture.js + test exercises the exact case where the pipe's only reader runs on the same event loop. The rest of the diff (EAGAIN → could_block = true in both do_write and do_read, unconditional dup for caller-supplied fds, is_allowed_to_close returning true for the dup) is unchanged from what I reviewed previously.

Security risks

None identified. No untrusted-input parsing, no auth/crypto. The fd-ownership change is bounded: the dup is created only for caller-supplied fds, is_allowed_to_close returns true only when opened_fd != caller_fd (i.e. the dup succeeded), and FileCloser::do_close's existing stdio_tag().is_none() guard still applies. The one edge I previously noted (dup landing on a free stdio slot → not closed) is a bounded ≤1-fd condition I already raised inline; not repeating.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is runtime-critical POSIX I/O touching fd lifecycle across three threads (JS thread fast path, work-pool writer, IO-thread epoll/kqueue). REVIEW.md's "every acquisition released on every terminal path" and "reference counts balanced on cancellation/finalize" both apply directly to the new dup + is_allowed_to_close pairing. I traced the terminal paths (on_finish, dup failure, WouldBlock → wait_for_writable) and the dup is closed via the existing FileCloser::do_close on all of them, but this is exactly the category where a maintainer familiar with the IO-thread parking protocol should sign off.

Other factors

All six of my prior inline threads were addressed by subsequent commits: read_file.rs got the symmetric stale-result-loop fix, the dup is now unconditional for caller-supplied fds (covering Bun.file(rawFd) with mode == 0), the stdout test asserts fdDelta=0, timeouts are 20s, and the blocking poll was replaced with async resumption plus a covering test. Two coderabbit threads were resolved by a non-author. No outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED. The bug hunt ran to dry_streak with zero findings and zero ruled-out candidates. I'm deferring rather than approving because fd-ownership changes in the thread-pool write path are the kind of thing a Bun maintainer should look at directly, not because I found a problem.

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