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Problem

  • Bun.$ mkdir <operand> with a relative operand longer than the join buffer, and touch <operand> with any operand longer than a path buffer, abort the process: panic: range end index 5004 out of range for slice of length 4094 (cwd /tmp, 5000-byte operand; same for mkdir -p and for an absolute touch operand).
  • mkdir with an absolute operand that does not fit a path buffer reports the wrong error: mkdir: /aaa...: No such file or directory instead of File name too long.
  • Cause, crash: ShellMkdirTask::run_from_thread_pool (src/runtime/shell/builtin/mkdir.rs) joins a relative operand onto the cwd with resolve_path::join_z, which writes into a fixed 4096-byte thread-local buffer; ShellTouchTask::run_from_thread_pool (touch.rs) joins both kinds of operand with join_z_buf into a stack PathBuffer. Neither join bounds-checks its output (normalize_string_generic_tz in src/paths/resolve_path.rs), and the operand comes straight from the user.
  • Cause, wrong error: mkdir hands the joined path to the node:fs mkdir implementation as a PathLike. For JS callers, Valid::path_string_length (src/runtime/node/types.rs) rejects paths of MAX_PATH_BYTES or more up front; for anything longer, PathLike::slice_z returns "" and mkdir("") fails with ENOENT. The shell builds the PathLike itself and skipped that check.

Fix

  • Both builtins join through join_z_spill, the existing variant that falls back to a caller-owned Vec when the parts would not fit (the same helper fs.readdir, Bun.Glob and the open rm fix shell(rm): stop panicking on operands longer than the path scratch buffers #37521 use). The result is the same normalized path as before for every operand that used to work.
  • mkdir then reports ENAMETOOLONG itself, naming the path, when the path it is about to create is MAX_PATH_BYTES or longer, i.e. the bound node:fs assumes. For a relative operand that is the joined, normalized path, so a long ././.../x spelling is still created; an absolute operand is passed on as written (as before: normalizing it would change what .. means across a symlink), so it is bounded as written, which is also what the kernel and coreutils do with such an operand. Both cases are in the test.
  • touch needs no check of its own: it calls bun_sys::utimens / open with the string as is, and the OS reports ENAMETOOLONG for it like for any other operand. It also no longer puts a PathBuffer on the worker's stack (about 96 KB on Windows).
  • Verified with test/js/bun/shell/commands/mkdir.test.ts and touch.test.ts (the commands/ directory has one file per builtin; these two had none). Each runs the builtin in a child bun and covers a 5000-byte relative and absolute operand, mkdir -p, a 100000-byte operand (longer than the buffer on Windows too), a long operand next to a normal one that must still be created, and a 6000-byte ./ spelling that must still succeed (for mkdir also the absolute form of it, which must be refused as written; POSIX only, since on Windows it fits the buffer).
    • USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/js/bun/shell/commands/mkdir.test.ts test/js/bun/shell/commands/touch.test.ts: both fail, the child aborts with the panic above. Without the new mkdir check, the mkdir cases fail on the ENOENT message instead.
    • bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/commands/mkdir.test.ts test/js/bun/shell/commands/touch.test.ts: pass. bunshell.test.ts, file-io.test.ts, commands/rm.test.ts pass as well; cargo check for the Windows and macOS targets is clean.
    • Windows: the released build aborts on the 5000-byte relative mkdir operand there too (the join buffer is 4096 bytes on every platform), and creates the directory for the absolute ././.../x spelling (the branch this change does not touch below 98302 bytes), which is what the Windows side of the test asserts; both checked on a Windows x64 machine. The Windows lanes of this PR's CI runs pass both test files.
  • Related open PRs: rm (shell(rm): stop panicking on operands longer than the path scratch buffers #37521), mv (shell(mv): report ENAMETOOLONG instead of panicking when a source name does not fit the path buffers #37527) and cp (shell(cp): report ENAMETOOLONG instead of panicking on operands longer than the path buffers #38162) fix the same pattern in their builtins; shell(cp): report ENAMETOOLONG instead of panicking on operands longer than the path buffers #38162 adds shell_join_path helpers in interpreter.rs that touch could switch to in one line once either PR lands. shell: fail an empty operand with ENOENT instead of acting on the cwd #38002 (empty operands) also creates commands/mkdir.test.ts and touch.test.ts; whichever lands second appends its test to the other's file. ls -R joins real directory entries through the same thread-local buffer, but that needs an on-disk tree within PATH_MAX whose entries join past 4096 bytes rather than a long operand, and is left alone here.

Background

  • Shell builtins run in-process; mkdir and touch schedule one task per operand on the worker pool. A task either succeeds or stores a bun_sys::Error, which the builtin prints as <cmd>: <path>: <coreutils message> and turns into exit code 1 once every task has finished, so one failing operand does not stop the others.
  • The shell has its own cwd ($.cwd(), cd), which can differ from the process cwd, so these builtins make relative operands absolute by joining them onto the shell cwd as strings before calling an implementation that takes a path.
  • resolve_path::join_z and join_z_buf concatenate and normalize their parts (., .., repeated separators) into a fixed buffer without checking that the result fits; the *_spill variants take a Vec to grow into when the unnormalized length would not fit, and otherwise behave identically.
  • PathBuffer is [u8; MAX_PATH_BYTES]: 4096 bytes on Linux, 1024 on macOS, 98302 on Windows. The node:fs layer copies every path it receives into one, which is why its JS entry points reject longer paths before calling it.

no test proof · iteration 0 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/shell/commands/mkdir.test.ts test/js/bun/shell/commands/touch.test.ts

…tead of aborting

A relative mkdir operand was joined onto the cwd in the 4096-byte
thread-local join buffer and every touch operand into a stack PathBuffer,
so an operand longer than that aborted the process. Join through the spill
variant instead. mkdir also reports ENAMETOOLONG itself for a result that
does not fit a PathBuffer, since the node:fs mkdir it calls assumes the
bound its JS entry points enforce and otherwise operates on "" and reports
ENOENT; touch passes the path to the OS whole, which reports ENAMETOOLONG
for it.
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✅ @robobun, your commit cdf41563992692bacb8945ce1cfe4de402663923 passed in Build #95737! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 38379

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-38379 executable, so you can run:

bun-38379 --bun

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The shell mkdir and touch commands now use dynamic spill buffers for relative paths and handle oversized operands without crashing. Integration tests cover error reporting, normalization, valid operands, filesystem effects, and subprocess output.

Shell path handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dynamic path resolution and length errors
src/runtime/shell/builtin/mkdir.rs, src/runtime/shell/builtin/touch.rs
Relative paths use join_z_spill. Oversized paths receive ENAMETOOLONG handling.
Oversized operand integration coverage
test/js/bun/shell/commands/mkdir.test.ts, test/js/bun/shell/commands/touch.test.ts
Child-process tests verify errors, normalization, valid operands, filesystem effects, clean stderr, and exit status.
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Review feedback so far is addressed: ed5c902 makes the fixtures assert on absolute paths (and drops the duplicate checks on the parent side), 6f25f02 cuts the two explanatory comments in mkdir.rs and touch.rs down to one line each; the reasoning behind mkdir's own ENAMETOOLONG check is in the description above. No behavior change in either commit; both test files still fail on the released build and pass with this branch.

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Status: the review feedback is handled. ed5c902 makes the fixtures check absolute paths, 6f25f02 trims the two code comments to one line each, and 6e9136b adds the absolute ././.../x mkdir case, which is refused as written (kernel and coreutils behaviour; see the thread on mkdir.rs), so the description's wording about normalization was corrected to match. The mkdir and touch tests still fail on the released build and pass here. The other two sites from the same census are #38391 (Bun.build / Worker entry point too long) and #38392 (_nodeModulePaths and onResolve paths), independent of this one.

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LGTM — focused crash-to-error fix using the established join_z_spill helper, with subprocess-isolated tests covering the variant matrix.

On my earlier note about the mkdir absolute branch not normalizing before the length check: the absoluteDotSlashes case in mkdir.test.ts pins that as intentional (matches coreutils/kernel; lexical normalization of .. through a symlink diverges from kernel resolution), which is a sound rationale — happy to leave it as-is.

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Overview

The PR replaces fixed-buffer path joins in two shell builtin worker functions with the spill-capable variant. ShellMkdirTask::run_from_thread_pool (mkdir.rs) swaps resolve_path::join_z for join_z_spill on the relative-operand branch and adds an explicit >= MAX_PATH_BYTES → ENAMETOOLONG guard before handing the path to NodeFS (which otherwise silently truncates to "" via PathLike::slice_z and reports ENOENT). ShellTouchTask::run_from_thread_pool (touch.rs) swaps join_z_buf into a stack PathBuffer for join_z_spill on both branches, letting the OS report ENAMETOOLONG naturally and dropping a large stack allocation. Two new test files run each builtin in a child process against 5000-byte and 100000-byte operands (relative, absolute, -p, mixed with a valid operand, and a 6000-byte ./ spelling that normalizes short).

Security risks

None introduced; the change is strictly a hardening. A user-reachable panic (out-of-bounds slice write in normalize_string_generic_tz) on adversarial operand length becomes a catchable exit-1 error. No new parsing, no new trust boundaries, no path-traversal surface added — the joined path is passed to the same NodeFS::mkdir_* / bun_sys::utimens/open calls as before.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-low. The Rust change is ~15 net lines across two worker functions, swapping one in-tree join helper for its documented spill variant (already used by GlobWalker and slated for the sibling rm/mv/cp PRs) plus one length check whose bound and rationale are named in the comment (Valid::path_string_length). No control-flow, ownership, or threading changes. The tests are the larger half of the diff and follow harness conventions closely (subprocess isolation, tempDir, concurrent pipe drain, exact stderr assertion on POSIX with a per-operand-fails relaxation on Windows, Buffer.alloc over .repeat).

Other factors

My previous inline comment (mkdir's absolute branch bounds the as-written length rather than the normalized one) was nit-level and self-noted as not a regression and matching coreutils; the absoluteDotSlashes test case pins this behavior with a comment giving the symlink-semantics rationale, which resolves it. All earlier bot threads (comment-cop, coderabbit absolute-path assertion) are addressed and marked resolved. The PR description documents USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 failure and debug-build pass, and the related shell-builtin PRs it names use the same pattern.

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Review has converged: the mkdir.rs note above is withdrawn on the strength of the absoluteDotSlashes case, and every thread is resolved. No further changes planned; ready for a maintainer once CI reports.

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LGTM — my earlier note on the absolute-operand branch is addressed: 6e9136b pins the as-written bounding with absoluteDotSlashes, and the symlink-.. rationale for not normalizing absolute operands is sound.

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Overview

Crash fix in two shell builtins. ShellMkdirTask::run_from_thread_pool and ShellTouchTask::run_from_thread_pool swap the fixed-buffer join_z/join_z_buf for the spill variant join_z_spill (already defined in src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1445 and used by the sibling rm/cp/mv fixes), so a user-supplied operand longer than MAX_PATH_BYTES no longer indexes past the buffer and panics the process. mkdir additionally enforces the Valid::path_string_length bound the node:fs layer assumes, so an over-long path reports ENAMETOOLONG instead of ENOENT-on-"". Two new test files under test/js/bun/shell/commands/ spawn a child bun and cover relative/absolute/-p/100k-byte/mixed-operand/./-normalization cases on all platforms.

Security risks

None new. The change replaces an unchecked write into a fixed thread-local buffer with a heap-spilling variant on user-controlled input — strictly a hardening. No new syscalls, no privilege changes; the ENAMETOOLONG path just constructs a bun_sys::Error and returns.

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Moderate. The Rust diff is ~15 net lines across two worker-pool functions and is a mechanical helper swap plus one length guard; the surrounding task lifecycle, error plumbing, and OutputTask machinery are untouched. The test files are the bulk of the diff and follow the established commands/<builtin>.test.ts pattern (child process, tempDir, drained pipes, one combined toEqual).

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  • My prior review flagged that the absolute mkdir branch bounds the operand as written rather than normalized. The author kept it deliberately (normalizing would change ..-through-symlink semantics, which is out of scope for a crash fix and matches coreutils/kernel behaviour), added absoluteDotSlashes to pin it, and corrected the description. That resolution is reasonable.
  • CodeRabbit's absolute-path nit and the comment-cop notes were addressed in ed5c902 and 6f25f02; all threads resolved.
  • Tests assert exact stderr on POSIX and expect.stringMatching(/^mkdir: /) on Windows where the errno is OS-chosen — appropriate branching, not precision loss.
  • Verified join_z_spill exists at resolve_path.rs:1445; process.argv[1] under bun -e is the first extra arg, so the fixture receives the tempdir correctly.

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Ready for a maintainer. Final state: mkdir and touch join through join_z_spill, mkdir reports ENAMETOOLONG itself for results that do not fit a PathBuffer (relative operands on the normalized path, absolute ones as written, both pinned by the tests), and the Windows expectations were checked on a Windows machine (details in the description). Review threads are all resolved, including the normalization question on mkdir.rs. CI: the two new test files pass on every lane in builds 95567, the retrigger, and 95737 (head cdf4156); the lanes those builds report as failed are retry-passed flakes in unrelated files (child_process IPC, require-cache leak check, napi buffer, s3, solc, cluster tests), plus the bake deinitialization Windows crash in 95567, which was reported separately. No further pushes planned from my side.

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Heads-up: #39189 changes touch and mkdir to report the operand as the user wrote it in their error messages (mkdir: nodir/a: No such file or directory), matching ls, rm, mv and coreutils. The long-operand tests here assert the cwd-joined form (failed(join(cwd, long))), and the new ENAMETOOLONG site in mkdir.rs tags the resolved filepath; whichever of the two PRs lands second needs those flipped to the operand (this.filepath). The source changes themselves do not overlap.

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…an PATH_MAX (#39578)

### Problem
- `Bun.$` `rm -rf <dir>` aborts the whole process when the tree under
`<dir>` has an entry whose path is longer than the path buffer: `panic:
range end index 4160 out of range for slice of length 4094` (exit 134).
With an absolute operand the message reads `... out of range for slice
of length 4095`.
- The panic happens on a thread pool thread. No JS code can catch it,
and `.nothrow()` does not help.
- Cause, files: `ShellRmTask::buf_join`
(`src/runtime/shell/builtin/rm.rs`) joins the directory path and the
entry name with `join_z_buf` into a stack `PathBuffer`. The join writes
the result with plain slice indexing, so a result longer than the buffer
panics.
- Cause, directories: `ShellRmTask::join` does the same for an absolute
operand with `resolve_path::join`, which writes into a 4096 byte
thread-local buffer. (For a relative operand this branch already builds
a `Vec`.)
- A directory path that still fits the buffer can hold an entry that
does not. The walk reaches such an entry on every tree deeper than
`PATH_MAX`. Such trees are legal. `mkdir` relative to an open directory
creates them, and so do `tar` and `git`.

### Fix
- `buf_join` joins through `join_z_buf_spill`. It uses the `PathBuffer`
as before when the result fits, and a `Vec` owned by the readdir loop
when it does not.
- The absolute branch of `join` uses `join_spill` the same way.
- The result for every path that used to work is unchanged. A path that
does not fit now reaches `unlinkat` or `openat` whole, and the OS
rejects it with `ENAMETOOLONG`. `rm` reports that as `rm: <path>: File
name too long` and exits 1, like every other failed entry.
- `join_z_buf_spill` and `join_spill` are the existing helpers that
`fs.readdir`, `Bun.Glob` and `fs.watch` use for the same problem. #37521
(the preserve-root check in `rm`) and #38379 (`mkdir`, `touch`) use them
for the other shell sites.
- Test: `test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts`, "recursive rm reports
an entry deeper than PATH_MAX instead of crashing". It builds two trees
whose deepest directory is `PATH_MAX - 64` bytes long (`PATH_MAX` is
4096 on Linux and 1024 on the other POSIX platforms, the same split as
`MAX_PATH_BYTES`), one with a 100 byte file and one with a 100 byte
directory inside, so both joins are exercised. It runs `rm -rf` on each
in a child process and expects exit 1 and the `File name too long` line
for the entry, then a normal `rm -rf` that still succeeds. Skipped on
Windows, where the path limit is different.
- `USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts -t
"deeper than PATH_MAX"`: fails with the panic above.
- `bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts`: 8 pass.
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check`: clean.

### Background
`rm -r` in the Bun shell is a tree of `DirTask`s. The root task holds
the operand as written. When a task reads a directory, it removes each
file entry itself and creates a child task for each directory entry.
Every task stores the full path of its entry, relative to the shell cwd
when the operand was relative, and passes that path to `unlinkat`,
`openat` or `rmdirat` with the shell cwd fd. The two joins in this PR
are where those full paths are built.

`PATH_MAX` (4096 on Linux) bounds one path string that the kernel
accepts in a syscall. It does not bound how deep a tree can be, because
a process can always create an entry relative to an open directory. So a
walker that builds full paths has to expect paths longer than its
buffers. The OS then rejects the syscall with `ENAMETOOLONG`, which is
the error coreutils also shows for such an entry when it cannot use
`*at` calls.

`resolve_path::join_z_buf` and `resolve_path::join` normalize the joined
parts (collapse `//`, resolve `.` and `..`) into a caller buffer or a
thread-local buffer. Neither checks the buffer length. The `_spill`
variants take an extra `Vec`, compute an upper bound of the result from
the input lengths, and grow the `Vec` and write there when the bound
exceeds the buffer.

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test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts

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### Problem
- GitHub closes only the first reference after a keyword, so "Fixes #1,
#2" leaves #2 open. "Supersedes #3" links nothing, and no reference
closes a pull request.
- The last 1000 merged PRs name 274 such references. PR #32292 is open
although merged #36135 says "Supersedes #32292".

### Fix
- `.github/workflows/close-linked-issues.yml` runs on
`pull_request_target` `closed` (a merge into the default branch of
`oven-sh/bun`) and on `workflow_dispatch` with a PR number and
`dry_run`. Everything is inline in one `actions/github-script` step,
with no checkout.
- Each open target is closed as `completed` with the comment "Closed as
completed by #N." or "Superseded by #N.". Closed or missing targets, the
PR itself and other repositories are skipped.
- The parser has no regex. A closing keyword (close, fix, resolve,
supersede, replace, any tense) must lead the reference, alone or in a
list. A negated, hedged or noun keyword, or one whose subject is another
reference, does not count ("may fix", "the rm fix #1", "#100 supersedes
#1").
- Verified: `test/internal/close-linked-issues.test.ts` (333 cases) runs
the YAML's script against fake `github`, `context` and `core`. Also the
1000-PR parse (Notes).

### Background
- GitHub's own keywords are close, fix and resolve (-s, -ed). Each links
one reference, and only a merge into the default branch closes it.
- `pull_request_target` runs in the base repository with a write token,
also for fork PRs. That is safe only when no PR-controlled code runs.
Here the description is the only PR input, parsed as text.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

A close through the API does not create the "closed this in #N" timeline
link that GitHub makes for its own closes. The comment carries the PR
number instead.

How the parser was calibrated. I pulled the descriptions of the last
1000 merged PRs and listed every line with a keyword next to a
reference. The keyword families, list shapes and reference forms in the
script are the ones that appear there. A reference is `#1`,
`owner/repo#1`, an issue or pull URL (bare or in `<>`), or a markdown
link. Four lines would have been wrong with a plain
keyword-then-reference rule, and each led to a rule:

- "the open `rm` fix #37521" (#38379): "fix" as a noun. Base forms (fix,
close, resolve, supersede, replace) count only at the start of a
sentence or line, or after will, should, does, and, and a few similar
words. "to" is not one of them ("unable to fix #1", "how to fix #1").
- "May also fix #12318 / #10046, untested" (#38242): hedged. may, might,
could, would, partially and the negations disqualify the keyword,
looking past adverbs such as "also".
- "Supersedes the closed #26040" (#36289) and "a comment on closed
#35351" (#35365): "closed" as an adjective. A determiner or preposition
before the keyword disqualifies it.
- "supersedes #33130's optimisation" (#35843): a number that continues
into a word is not a reference.

Review added: a reference before the keyword is the subject ("#100
supersedes #1"), also through "which" or "that" ("reverts #100, which
fixed #1") and across a removed span ("#100 ~~also~~ fixes #1"). A hedge
two words before the keyword disqualifies it ("hopefully this fixes #1",
"could this fix #1?"). A clause that starts with if, when, once, until
or unless is not a statement. The tokenizer keeps a line break as a
token so that "Fixes #1" on one line and "Fixes #2" on the next stay two
statements. Code spans, fences, indented code, blockquotes, HTML
comments and strikethrough are skipped. The block stripping follows
CommonMark for fences (also inside a blockquote), indented code,
blockquotes with lazy continuation, setext underlines and HTML comments,
and GFM for `~~` flanking.

Result over the 1000 descriptions: 274 distinct references in 135 PRs. I
checked the current state of all of them through GraphQL. All but one
are closed (202 issues completed, 5 duplicates, 66 pull requests). The
one open target is PR #32292, superseded by merged #36135. No open
target is a false positive. Every review change kept this result.

Patterns that are deliberately not handled: a bulleted list under
"Closes:" on its own line (not seen in the sample), references separated
by whitespace only ("#1 #2"), "fix for #1", and GH-1 style references. A
`?` after the list is not treated as a question. The block parser tracks
no list containers, so a second paragraph of a list item indented by
four spaces is read as an indented code block and skipped. A removed
span or inline comment reads as one word, so "Fixes <!-- n --> #1" finds
nothing.

The test suite covers: the phrases above, stopping at the right place in
real sentences, CRLF descriptions, URLs with fragments or a `/files`
suffix, case-insensitive `Owner/Repo#1`, the fake API where a lookup, an
update or a comment fails, the `dry_run` input, an invalid `pr_number`
input, an unmerged PR, a PR merged into a non-default branch, the merge
event body against a later edit, and a description with no closing
statement.

The first revision of this PR checked out the repository and ran
`scripts/close-linked-issues.ts`. Jarred asked for no checkout and no
script file, so the script moved inline into the workflow and the test
now reads it out of the YAML.
</details>

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**[stamp-90s]** gate passed · iteration 9 · 2 files touched

<details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary>

```console
Test-only change.

Debug/ASAN (expected pass):
$ bun bd test 'test/internal/close-linked-issues.test.ts'
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test test/internal/close-linked-issues.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (4448a2e)

test/internal/close-linked-issues.test.ts:
(pass) finds "Fixes #39852" [176.21ms]
(pass) finds "Closes #31772. Fixes #31771." [22.28ms]
(pass) finds "- Fixes #39930" [12.28ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes: #30429" [10.46ms]
(pass) finds "FIXES #1" [7.86ms]
(pass) finds "(Fixes #1)" [8.97ms]
(pass) finds "**Fixes #1**" [10.20ms]
(pass) finds "__Fixes #1__" [9.83ms]
(pass) finds "_Fixes #1_" [11.25ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes **#1**" [9.72ms]
(pass) finds "**Fixes** #1" [7.13ms]
(pass) finds "**Fixes:** #1" [8.11ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1 and **#2**" [11.47ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes **#1**, **#2**" [9.13ms]
(pass) finds "## Why (fixes #13771, closes #30543)" [16.08ms]
(pass) finds "Closes #11418" [19.46ms]
(pass) finds "Resolves #1. Resolved #2. Resolve #3." [12.09ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #34055, #30327, #24394, #20816, #32403, #11898, #10056." [17.11ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #18192 and #31675 as a consequence" [10.45ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1, #2, and #3" [10.96ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1 & #2" [7.63ms]
(pass) finds "Closes #33280,  Closes #32864 and Closes #29696 (the timer in #32949 is orthogonal)" [20.29ms]
(pass) finds "Closes #33182 and #32947 on top of current main (which already has #36304 for catalogs)." [16.12ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1,\n#2" [7.76ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1, #2,\nand #3" [9.27ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1\nand #2" [8.57ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1\n& #2" [6.80ms]
(pass) finds "Fixes #1 and\n#2" [7.31ms]
(pass) finds "Supersedes #39908 (same change, moved from a fork branch)" [13.21ms]
(pass) finds "Supersedes #38778 and #38391. Carries the entry point arm of #35053." [14.43ms]
(pass) finds "Supersedes #39193 and keeps its three tests." [11.48ms]
(pass) finds "This supersedes #33306 and #32803. Their tests are kept here." [13.73ms]
(pass) finds "- This replaces #33793. Its 
... (truncated)
Exit: 0
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
.github/workflows/close-linked-issues.yml | 950 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 test/internal/close-linked-issues.test.ts | 598 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 1548 insertions(+)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 29 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 9

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                       reads  edits  tests
.github/workflows/close-linked-issues.yml      6     12      0
test/internal/close-linked-issues.test.ts      3     11      0
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
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