diff --git a/src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs b/src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
index 86a63c7b53da..450a0cea5b21 100644
--- a/src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
+++ b/src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
@@ -891,9 +891,18 @@ impl FileSink {
             return sys::Result::Ok(JSValue::UNDEFINED);
         }
 
+        let had_buffered_data = self.writer.get().has_pending_data();
         // SAFETY(JsCell): `IOWriter::flush` is pure I/O; no JS re-entry while
         // the `&mut IOWriter` is held.
         let rc = self.writer.with_mut(|w| w.flush());
+        // `on_write` keeps the event loop alive while bytes sit in the buffer
+        // and `on_auto_flush` releases that once it drains them. A flush from
+        // JS that drained them has to release it too, or the loop still counts
+        // as alive until the next deferred-task drain (a write()+flush() from a
+        // 'beforeExit' listener then re-emits 'beforeExit').
+        if had_buffered_data && !self.writer.get().has_pending_data() {
+            self.update_ref(false);
+        }
         let flushed = match rc {
             WriteResult::Done(written)
             | WriteResult::Pending(written)
diff --git a/test/js/bun/console/console-write.test.ts b/test/js/bun/console/console-write.test.ts
index 0e259ff167f9..d287f051c1e1 100644
--- a/test/js/bun/console/console-write.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/bun/console/console-write.test.ts
@@ -36,3 +36,38 @@ console.write("ok");
     signalCode: null,
   });
 });
+
+// console.write() is a FileSink write() + flush(). With stdout on a pipe the
+// write() parks the bytes in the sink's buffer and marks the event loop alive
+// until they are flushed; the flush() drained them right away but used to leave
+// that mark in place, so a console.write() from a 'beforeExit' listener looked
+// like newly scheduled work and 'beforeExit' was emitted again. A listener that
+// writes on every emit kept the process alive forever; this one writes once, so
+// the broken behavior shows up as a count of 2.
+test("console.write inside a 'beforeExit' listener does not re-emit 'beforeExit'", async () => {
+  await using proc = Bun.spawn({
+    cmd: [
+      bunExe(),
+      "-e",
+      `
+let count = 0;
+process.on("beforeExit", () => {
+  count++;
+  if (count === 1) console.write("from beforeExit\\n");
+});
+process.on("exit", () => console.log("beforeExit emitted " + count + " time(s)"));
+`,
+    ],
+    env: bunEnv,
+    stdout: "pipe",
+    stderr: "pipe",
+  });
+
+  const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
+
+  expect({ stdout, stderr, exitCode }).toEqual({
+    stdout: "from beforeExit\nbeforeExit emitted 1 time(s)\n",
+    stderr: "",
+    exitCode: 0,
+  });
+});
diff --git a/test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts b/test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
index a78a3329e9e1..7dc04c27b41e 100644
--- a/test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
@@ -676,6 +676,142 @@ describe.skipIf(isWindows)("FileSink buffered data is flushed on process exit",
   );
 });
 
+// On a pipe or socket, a small write() parks the bytes in the sink's buffer and
+// marks the event loop alive until they are flushed; the deferred auto-flush
+// clears that once it has drained them. An explicit flush() that drained them
+// itself (console.write is write()+flush()) used to leave the mark in place
+// until that deferred task ran. 'beforeExit' is where this shows: it is
+// re-emitted whenever a listener left the loop alive, so a listener doing
+// write()+flush() got it a second time, and one writing on every emit kept the
+// process alive forever. The fixtures below write on the first emit only and
+// report on stderr, from 'exit', how many emits they saw.
+describe("FileSink flush() from a 'beforeExit' listener", () => {
+  const marker = "from beforeExit\n";
+
+  function fixture(stream: "stdout" | "stderr") {
+    return `
+      let count = 0;
+      let code = null;
+      process.on("beforeExit", () => {
+        count++;
+        if (count !== 1) return;
+        const sink = Bun.${stream}.writer();
+        sink.write(${JSON.stringify(marker)});
+        try {
+          sink.flush();
+        } catch (e) {
+          code = e.code;
+        }
+      });
+      process.on("exit", () => console.error(JSON.stringify({ count, code })));
+    `;
+  }
+
+  // `stdio` replaces the child's stdin/stdout with raw fds; stdout is then not
+  // captured and comes back as null.
+  async function run(script: string, stdio: { stdin?: number; stdout?: number } = {}) {
+    await using proc = Bun.spawn({
+      cmd: [bunExe(), "-e", script],
+      env: bunEnv,
+      stdout: "pipe",
+      stderr: "pipe",
+      ...stdio,
+    });
+    const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([
+      stdio.stdout === undefined ? (proc.stdout as ReadableStream).text() : null,
+      (proc.stderr as ReadableStream).text(),
+      proc.exited,
+    ]);
+    return { stdout, stderr, exitCode };
+  }
+
+  const once = JSON.stringify({ count: 1, code: null }) + "\n";
+
+  it.concurrent("Bun.stdout.writer() write()+flush() on a pipe emits 'beforeExit' once", async () => {
+    expect(await run(fixture("stdout"))).toEqual({ stdout: marker, stderr: once, exitCode: 0 });
+  });
+
+  it.concurrent("Bun.stderr.writer() write()+flush() on a pipe emits 'beforeExit' once", async () => {
+    expect(await run(fixture("stderr"))).toEqual({ stdout: "", stderr: marker + once, exitCode: 0 });
+  });
+
+  // flush() can also fail outright: the writer drops the buffered bytes and
+  // flush() throws. Nothing is pending after that either, so this path must not
+  // leave the loop marked alive any more than the success path does. The
+  // child's stdout is a socket whose peer is already closed.
+  it.concurrent.skipIf(!isPosix)("a flush() that fails with EPIPE emits 'beforeExit' once", async () => {
+    const [readFd, writeFd] = createSocketPair();
+    fs.closeSync(readFd);
+    try {
+      expect(await run(fixture("stdout"), { stdout: writeFd })).toEqual({
+        stdout: null,
+        stderr: JSON.stringify({ count: 1, code: "EPIPE" }) + "\n",
+        exitCode: 0,
+      });
+    } finally {
+      fs.closeSync(writeFd);
+    }
+  });
+
+  // The other direction has to keep working: when flush() cannot drain the
+  // buffer, the bytes are still pending and the process has to stay alive until
+  // they go out. The child's stdout is a socket whose send buffer is already
+  // full; its stdin is the other end. The unref'd timer that drains it does not
+  // hold the process open by itself, it only gets to run because the pending
+  // bytes do, so releasing the loop on this path would exit the child before
+  // the timer fires and before flush()'s promise settles.
+  it.concurrent.skipIf(!isPosix)("a flush() that could not drain keeps the process alive until it does", async () => {
+    const [readFd, writeFd] = createSocketPair();
+    try {
+      // createSocketPair() hands out non-blocking fds: write until the kernel
+      // refuses more.
+      const filler = Buffer.alloc(64 * 1024, 0x61);
+      let filled = 0;
+      try {
+        while (true) filled += fs.writeSync(writeFd, filler);
+      } catch (e: any) {
+        if (e.code !== "EAGAIN") throw e;
+      }
+
+      const result = await run(
+        `
+          const fs = require("node:fs");
+          const sink = Bun.stdout.writer();
+          const wrote = sink.write(${JSON.stringify(marker)});
+          const flushed = sink.flush();
+          let settled = "pending";
+          Promise.resolve(flushed).then(
+            () => { settled = "resolved"; },
+            e => { settled = "rejected: " + e.code; },
+          );
+
+          setTimeout(() => {
+            const buf = Buffer.alloc(64 * 1024);
+            let drained = 0;
+            while (drained < ${filled}) drained += fs.readSync(0, buf);
+          }, 0).unref();
+
+          let count = 0;
+          process.on("beforeExit", () => { count++; });
+          process.on("exit", () =>
+            console.error(JSON.stringify({ wrote, flushReturnedPromise: flushed instanceof Promise, settled, count })),
+          );
+        `,
+        { stdin: readFd, stdout: writeFd },
+      );
+      expect(result).toEqual({
+        stdout: null,
+        stderr:
+          JSON.stringify({ wrote: marker.length, flushReturnedPromise: true, settled: "resolved", count: 1 }) + "\n",
+        exitCode: 0,
+      });
+    } finally {
+      fs.closeSync(readFd);
+      fs.closeSync(writeFd);
+    }
+  });
+});
+
 it("fs.promises.writeFile with iterables under GC pressure does not crash", async () => {
   const dir = tmpdirSync();
   await using proc = Bun.spawn({