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Problem

Fix

  • A test-only flag, BUN_INTERNAL_SYNC_MANIFEST_CACHE_WRITES, makes save_async write the entry inline: inside the tracked manifest task (200) or on the main thread (304), so it is on disk before the install goes on. bunEnv sets it for every install a test spawns.
  • Production behavior is unchanged. Same shape as BUN_DISABLE_SLOW_FILESYSTEM_WARNING, and it keeps the test(security-scanner-matrix): don't depend on the setup install's manifest cache writes having landed #37203 decision: no exit-time wait in bun install.
  • The offline tests share one warmCache helper. A new test installs with the flag unset and holds the tarball response until the thread pool entry exists, so the production path stays covered.
  • Verified: bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts (11 pass), bun-install-registry -t manifest and the bun-lock peer tests. Probe, one debug binary under load: flag unset loses 24 of 300 entries, flag set 0 of 150.

Background

  • Manifest cache: bun install serializes each fetched manifest to <cache dir>/<hash>.npm. --offline resolves from that file only and reports a miss as an error.
  • save_async writes a temporary file and renames it into the cache directory from a thread pool task. The cache is optional, so nothing joins the task before exit.
  • Feature flags (src/bun_core/env_var.rs) are env vars cached atomically, safe to read from a pool worker.
Notes

Probes. Each iteration: a fresh project against a local registry that serves baz, then bun install, then count .npm files in the cache directory after exit 0. 16 vCPUs, 48 busy loops alongside.

Release binary (1.4.0-canary.1, no flag support, unfixed):

shape installs that exited without the entry
cold cache: manifest, then tarball (the first step of each offline test) 5 / 3000
tarball already cached: the manifest is the last fetch 746 / 3000

Debug binary from this branch, tarball already cached, 20,000-version manifest so the write takes longer:

env installs that exited without the entry
flag unset 14 / 150, then 10 / 150
BUN_INTERNAL_SYNC_MANIFEST_CACHE_WRITES=1 0 / 150

No install failed in any run. Also run: bun-add, bun-pm and lockfile-only, all green.

Why both callers are covered: get_package_metadata (npm.rs:581) runs inside PackageManagerTask on a pool worker, and the main thread waits for that task, so an inline save there finishes before the task is marked done. The 304 path (runTasks.rs:674) is on the main thread.

Test proof: there is no build on which the unmodified tests fail deterministically. Without the flag the entry is usually on disk (the race needs load), and a test cannot observe the moment the install moves on precisely enough from outside the process (tried: a registry handler that checks for the entry when the tarball is requested; under the debug test runner the handler runs late and sees the entry 7 of 8 times). The probe above is the evidence.

Earlier shape of this PR: a per-file warmCache loop that reinstalled until the entry appeared, the same shape as #39190. A review pointed out that it was the fifth per-test patch around one root cause and that a harness flag with existing precedent covers all of them, so the loop was replaced with the flag. With the flag in bunEnv, #39190 and #38580 are no longer needed.

Follow-up for maintainers, not part of this PR: #37203 kept the write fire-and-forget because a missing entry only meant a refetch. Since #40010, bun install --offline reports a missing entry as an error after a successful online install, so a user can hit this race on a loaded machine. Whether bun install should join pending manifest writes at exit is a product decision.


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fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (4448a2e21)

test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts:
(pass) the manifest cache entry written from the thread pool is a usable manifest [469.43ms]
(pass) --prefer-offline resolves from cached manifests without touching the network [343.79ms]
(pass) --offline (hoisted linker) > never issues a request and fails cleanly on a cache miss [639.21ms]
(pass) --offline (isolated linker) > never issues a request and fails cleanly on a cache miss [595.25ms]
(pass) --prefer-offline with an expired cached manifest > resolves a range from it instead of spinning [344.21ms]
(pass) --offline with an expired cached manifest > resolves a range from it instead of spinning [333.32ms]
(pass) --offline skips an optional dependency that is not in the cache [344.85ms]
(pass) --offline refuses an uncached git dependency without running git [307.68ms]
(pass) --offline reports an uncached tarball-URL / github dependency once, and skips optional ones [295.33ms]
(pass) install.prefer = "offline" and 
... (truncated)

release without fix: 9 FAILED
bun test v1.4.0-canary.1 (4448a2e21)

test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts:
(pass) the manifest cache entry written from the thread pool is a usable manifest [18.62ms]
(pass) --prefer-offline resolves from cached manifests without touching the network [11.27ms]
148 |     expect(urls.length).toBe(before);
149 | 
150 |     // manifest for `bar` was never fetched → clean error, still no request
151 |     const dir3 = await newProject({ bar: "0.0.2" }, cache_dir, linker);
152 |     r = await install(dir3, ["--offline"]);
153 |     expect(r.err).toContain("--offline");
                        ^
error: expect(received).toContain(expected)

Expected to contain: "--offline"
Received: "Resolving dependencies\nResolved, downloaded and extracted [2]\nerror: No version matching \"0.0.2\" found for specifier \"bar\" (but package exists)\nerror: bar@0.0.2 failed to resolve\n"

      at <anonymous> (/workspace/bun/test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts:153:19)
(fail) --offline (hoisted linker) > never issues a request and fails cleanly on a cache miss [15.29ms]
148 |     expect(urls.length).toBe(before);
149 | 
150 |     // manifest for `bar` was never fetched → 
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
ASAN with fix: all passed
$ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/mechgate.xml" test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts
bun test v1.4.1 (4448a2e21)

test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts:
(pass) the manifest cache entry written from the thread pool is a usable manifest [450.93ms]
(pass) --prefer-offline resolves from cached manifests without touching the network [337.40ms]
(pass) --offline (hoisted linker) > never issues a request and fails cleanly on a cache miss [647.68ms]
(pass) --offline (isolated linker) > never issues a request and fails cleanly on a cache miss [595.52ms]
(pass) --prefer-offline with an expired cached manifest > resolves a range from it instead of spinning [337.88ms]
(pass) --offline with an expired cached manifest > resolves a range from it instead of spinning [336.31ms]
(pass) --offline skips an optional dependency that is not in the cache [364.02ms]
(pass) --offline refuses an uncached git dependency without running git [289.14ms]
(pass) --offline reports an uncached tarball-URL / github dependency once, and skips optional ones [291.63ms]
(pass) install.prefer = "offline" and 
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 635ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/139] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (7710ms)
Bundle modules (832ms)
Postprocesss modules (1060ms)
Bundle Functions (1121ms)
Generate Code (45ms)

[10.79s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2622 kb
  198 internal modules
  13 native modules
  91 internal functions across 16 files
[1/139] cargo bun_runtime → libbun_runtime.a (--target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)

  nightly-2026-07-20-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu unchanged - rustc 1.99.0-nightly (9f36de775 2026-07-19)

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diff hotspot
src/bun_core/env_var.rs                      |   2 +
 src/install/npm.rs                           |  30 +++++---
 test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts | 102 ++++++++++++++++-----------
 test/harness.ts                              |   4 ++
 4 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

gate history · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                          reads  edits  tests
src/bun_core/env_var.rs                           2      3      0
src/install/npm.rs                                3      7      0
test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts      4     19      0
test/harness.ts                                   1      1      0

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This change adds an internal flag for synchronous manifest-cache writes, centralizes cache-write warnings, enables the flag in the test harness, and expands offline-install tests for asynchronous cache writes and cached manifest reuse.

Changes

Manifest cache write flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Serialization flag and error handling
src/bun_core/env_var.rs, src/install/npm.rs
Adds BUN_INTERNAL_SYNC_MANIFEST_CACHE_WRITES. Synchronous and asynchronous cache-write failures use shared verbose warning handling.
Test harness synchronization
test/harness.ts
Enables synchronous manifest-cache writes in the test environment.
Offline installation regression coverage
test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts
Adds cache-warming and manifest-parsing helpers. Covers asynchronous cache writes, offline installation, and shared setup across existing scenarios.

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Updated 7:03 AM PT - Aug 22nd, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 47ef5027e72d0d7b73e074ecc48cf9d991cf1269 passed in Build #103597! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 40073

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-40073 executable, so you can run:

bun-40073 --bun

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Status: ready for review. The fix is a test harness flag; production behavior is unchanged.

How the flake was reproduced: the release binary on 16 vCPUs under 48 busy loops, with a fresh project per iteration and a local registry that serves baz. 5 of 3000 online installs exited with the extracted package in the cache but no .npm manifest entry, which is the state the failing --offline step saw. With the tarball already cached (the manifest is the last fetch) it was 746 of 3000.

What the PR changes: BUN_INTERNAL_SYNC_MANIFEST_CACHE_WRITES makes Serializer::save_async write the entry inline. bunEnv sets it, so every install a test spawns has its manifest entries on disk at exit. On the same debug binary under load, the flag unset lost 24 of 300 entries and the flag set lost 0 of 150. bun-install-offline.test.ts gets a shared warmCache helper and a test that keeps the thread pool write path covered with the flag unset.

Earlier shape: a per-file retry loop in the test, replaced after review (details in the PR body).

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LGTM — test-only de-flake that polls for the on-disk .npm manifest instead of assuming a single online install persisted it.

What was reviewed:

  • warmCache is a bounded (≤5) retry loop that awaits the actual observable condition (.npm file count in the per-test cache dir), with a comment naming why no in-process signal exists (save_async is fire-and-forget by design).
  • Confirmed every former package_dir install site is replaced and the removed beforeEach bunfig write is dead — all warms now go through newProject, which writes its own bunfig; the package_dir import is correctly dropped.
  • Checked that urls.length / before bookkeeping still holds with multiple warm installs, and that the final toBe(manifests) equality is safe because each test uses a fresh cache dir with exactly one manifest.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR touches a single test file, test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts, to fix a CI flake observed on the alpine 3.23 x64 lane. The flake is a known race: Serializer::save_async (src/install/npm.rs) writes the manifest cache entry from a thread-pool task that bun install does not join before exiting, so under load the warm install can exit 0 without the .npm file on disk, and the subsequent --offline install then fails with "no cached manifest". The fix introduces a warmCache(deps, cache) helper that installs from a fresh project (so the manifest is re-fetched and re-written) until the cache directory contains one .npm file per dependency, capped at five attempts, then asserts the count. Six call sites that previously did a single online install into package_dir or a temp project are replaced with warmCache. The now-unused package_dir import and the beforeEach bunfig write to it are removed.

Security risks

None. Test-only change; no production code, no new network endpoints, no external hosts — installs still go to the local dummyRegistry on root_url.

Level of scrutiny

Low. This is a de-flaking refactor of test setup with no changes to what the tests assert about --offline / --prefer-offline behavior. The pattern matches REVIEW.md guidance exactly: poll a bounded window for the real condition rather than sleep-then-check, with a comment naming the missing signal. The PR description cites #39190 as precedent for the same race in bun-lock.test.ts and #37203 for why the fix is intentionally test-side (an install-side wait was tried and reverted). The description also documents empirical probe rates and simulation results showing the old file fails and the new one passes when the lost write is injected.

Other factors

  • No assertions are weakened: each replaced block still checks err doesn't contain "error:" and code === 0, plus the new terminal expect(cachedManifests).toBe(manifests) so the loop cannot silently exhaust without the file.
  • urls bookkeeping is preserved — before is captured after warmCache returns, so extra warm requests don't affect the zero-request assertions that follow. expect(before).toBeGreaterThan(0) in the first test still holds.
  • Each retry uses a fresh project (no lockfile) so the manifest is genuinely re-fetched; this is why the loop converges. The strict toBe(manifests) is safe because every warmed test creates its cache dir fresh via mkdtemp() and fetches exactly one package (baz).
  • The four tests that don't warm a manifest cache (git / tarball-URL / github deps and the git-clone cache test) are untouched.
  • Dead code deleted in the same PR that made it dead (the package_dir bunfig write and import), per repo review rules.

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LGTM — test-only de-flake that polls the actual on-disk condition instead of assuming the async manifest write completed.

What was reviewed:

  • warmCache retries from a fresh project (so the manifest is re-fetched each attempt) and asserts the final .npm count, so 5 misses fails loudly rather than cascading into a confusing downstream failure.
  • The removed beforeEach bunfig write to package_dir is dead now that every warm install goes through newProject, which writes its own bunfig; package_dir is no longer imported or referenced.
  • urls.length snapshots (before) are all taken after warmCache returns, so the extra retry requests don't break the zero-request assertions.
  • The warm install always uses the hoisted linker regardless of the test's linker matrix — fine, since it only exists to populate the shared cache dir.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR de-flakes test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts by replacing each single online "warm the cache" install with a warmCache helper that re-installs from a fresh project (up to 5 times) until the expected number of .npm manifest entries are on disk, then asserts the count. The root cause is documented: Serializer::save_async writes the manifest cache entry from a thread-pool task that bun install does not join before exit, so under CI load the process can exit before the rename lands. The PR also removes the now-dead beforeEach override of package_dir's bunfig and the package_dir import, since all warm installs now go through newProject (which creates its own temp dir + bunfig).

Security risks

None. Test-only change; no production code, no new inputs, no network beyond the existing local dummy registry.

Level of scrutiny

Low. This is a targeted flake fix in a single test file, following the exact pattern the repo already accepted in #39190 for the same race in bun-lock.test.ts. It obeys the repo's testing rules: it polls the observable condition (files on disk) with a bounded loop rather than sleeping, and the loop's failure mode is an explicit expect(...).toBe(manifests) rather than a silent pass. The PR description includes probe data (5/3000 cold, 746/3000 warm-tarball) that justifies both the retry and the fresh-project-per-attempt design, and simulation results showing the old file fails and the new one passes when the write is dropped.

Other factors

  • Each retry calls newProject, so there is no lockfile or node_modules to short-circuit the manifest fetch — the retry actually re-triggers save_async.
  • The four tests that never warmed a cache (git/tarball-URL/github/git-clone) are untouched.
  • The before = urls.length captures move to after warmCache, so retry requests are correctly excluded from the "no new requests" assertions.
  • Bounded at 5 attempts; with the measured miss rates the residual flake probability is on the order of 1e-6, and if it does miss all 5 the test fails with a clear Expected: 1, Received: 0 at the assert rather than the misleading --offline error downstream.

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…efore exit

Serializer::save_async writes each manifest cache entry from a thread
pool task that bun install never waits for, so under load an install
can exit before the entry is on disk. Tests that install again right
after a warm install then miss the entry: bun-install-offline.test.ts
failed with "--offline: no cached manifest" on one CI lane, and
bun-install-registry.test.ts and bun-lock.test.ts carry the same race.

Add BUN_INTERNAL_SYNC_MANIFEST_CACHE_WRITES. When it is set, save_async
calls Serializer::save inline and returns. The 200 path runs inside the
tracked manifest task and the 304 path on the main thread, so the entry
is on disk before the install continues. bunEnv in test/harness.ts sets
the flag, so every install a test spawns gets it. Production behavior
is unchanged when the flag is unset.

In bun-install-offline.test.ts, warm the cache through one helper that
asserts the entry count, and add a test that spawns an install with the
flag unset and holds the tarball response until the thread pool entry
exists, so the production write path stays covered.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. The change is well-scoped and follows existing precedent (BUN_INTERNAL_INTERACTIVE_ASSUME_TTY, BUN_DISABLE_SLOW_FILESYSTEM_WARNING), but since it adds a flag to bunEnv that changes manifest-write behavior for every install test in the suite, and the PR body flags a product-level follow-up question about whether bun install should join pending manifest writes at exit, a maintainer look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • save_async sync path calls Serializer::save with identical args to the async path; warn_not_cached extraction is byte-identical to the inlined warning it replaces.
  • new_feature_flag! with {} defaults to false, so production behavior is unchanged; .get().unwrap_or(false) is consistent with the flag's Option<bool> return.
  • The removed beforeEach bunfig write to package_dir is dead after the warmCache refactor — no remaining reference to package_dir in the file.
  • The new thread-pool test unsets the flag and polls for the entry with a 10s deadline before releasing the tarball, so the async path stays covered.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

Four files touched: a one-line new_feature_flag! addition in src/bun_core/env_var.rs; a ~20-line change in src/install/npm.rs that adds an env-gated synchronous early-return to Serializer::save_async and extracts the verbose-install warning into a shared warn_not_cached helper; a one-key addition to bunEnv in test/harness.ts; and a refactor of test/cli/install/bun-install-offline.test.ts that consolidates five copies of the same online-install-then-assert setup into a warmCache helper and adds a test that keeps the thread-pool write path exercised with the flag unset.

Security risks

None identified. The new env var is read via the existing atomic feature-flag cache and only selects between two paths that both call the same Serializer::save. No new input parsing, no path handling changes, no network- or auth-facing surface.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. The npm.rs change is production code, but it is gated behind a BUN_INTERNAL_* env var that defaults to false, so end-user behavior is unchanged. The higher-scrutiny piece is the bunEnv addition: every test that spawns bun with bunEnv now writes manifest cache entries synchronously. That should only make tests more deterministic (the PR body reports bun-add, bun-pm, lockfile-only, bun-install-registry -t manifest, and bun-lock all green), and the async path is kept covered by the new dedicated test — but it is a suite-wide behavior change a maintainer should be aware of.

Other factors

All prior reviewer feedback is resolved: the comment-cop long-comment warnings were addressed by shortening to one line each, and the CodeRabbit suggestion to exercise --offline against the async-written entry was implemented in 47ef502. The PR body also explicitly flags a product decision for maintainers (whether bun install should join pending manifest writes at exit now that --offline errors on a miss) — that is out of this PR's scope but is another reason a human should see this change rather than have it land on bot approval alone.

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I checked this branch against the two per-test workarounds it supersedes (#38580 and #39190), with both tests unmodified.

Covered: the exit race.

  • bun-install-registry.test.ts "npm manifest cache entries are only reused for the package name they were saved for": Linux release build, 24 busy loops on 16 cores: 6 of 30 runs fail without the flag (ENOENT at line 9864), 0 of 90 with it. Windows debug build: 4 of 5 fail without the flag, 10 of 10 pass with it. I closed test(install): don't require the refetched manifest to be cached before install exits #38580.
  • bun-lock.test.ts "peer no published version satisfies > declared by a registry package": Linux release build, same load: 3 of 30 runs fail without the flag (+ "/peer-target" at line 1778), 0 of 90 with it.

Not covered: a second cause for the bun-lock test on macOS and Windows.

  • This branch's own CI failed that test once with the flag on, with the same + "/peer-target" output: build 103597, darwin aarch64 test-bun, passed on retry.
  • Serializer::save (src/install/npm.rs:1380) names the temp file <name hash>.npm-<milliseconds> in the temp dir and opens it with O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, no O_EXCL. The four it.concurrent peer tests each spawn bun install with its own registry and cache dir but the same $TMPDIR, and all four save peer-target. Two saves in the same millisecond share the temp path. One process's rename fails (entry missing). The other renames the neighbor's bytes into its own cache. That entry carries the wrong registry hash, so the next load_by_file_id deletes it and fetches the manifest again. Linux takes the O_TMPFILE path inside the cache dir, so only macOS and Windows reach the named temp file.
  • Measured on Windows with a debug build of this branch, flag on. Four concurrent installs whose registries release the manifest response at the same moment, 40 rounds: shared temp dir, 14 of 160 installs lost the entry (8 missing, 6 holding another registry's manifest, parseManifest reports "manifest is invalid"). One temp dir per install: 0 of 160. Linux, shared temp dir: 0 of 80.

A unique temp name fixes it: a PID or random suffix, as get_temporary_directory_run already does with FileSystem::tmpname, or O_EXCL with a retry. That changes bun install itself, so I did not push it to this branch. #39190 stays open until this is handled. Its reinstall loop covers the missing entry but not the invalid one.

Probe script

Run with the branch binary: BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_INTERNAL_FOR_TESTING=1 <bun> collide.ts <bun> 40 4 shared (or separate).

import { mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, rmSync, writeFileSync } from "fs";
import { join } from "path";
import { tmpdir } from "os";
import { npm_manifest_test_helpers } from "bun:internal-for-testing";
const { parseManifest } = npm_manifest_test_helpers;

const [bin, roundsArg, procsArg, tmpMode] = process.argv.slice(2);
const rounds = Number(roundsArg ?? 20);
const procs = Number(procsArg ?? 4);
const separateTmp = tmpMode === "separate";
const pkgName = "peer-target";

const root = join(tmpdir(), `collide-${process.pid}`);
rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });
mkdirSync(root, { recursive: true });
const sharedTmp = join(root, "shared-tmp");
mkdirSync(sharedTmp, { recursive: true });

const tarball = await new Bun.Archive(
  { "package/package.json": JSON.stringify({ name: pkgName, version: "2.0.1" }) },
  { compress: "gzip" },
).bytes();

let missing = 0, invalid = 0, installFailed = 0;

for (let round = 0; round < rounds; round++) {
  let arrived = 0;
  const barrier = Promise.withResolvers<void>();
  const servers = Array.from({ length: procs }, () =>
    Bun.serve({
      port: 0,
      async fetch(req) {
        const { origin, pathname } = new URL(req.url);
        if (pathname.endsWith(".tgz")) return new Response(tarball);
        if (++arrived === procs) barrier.resolve();
        await barrier.promise; // every process saves the manifest at about the same time
        return Response.json(
          {
            name: pkgName,
            versions: { "2.0.1": { name: pkgName, version: "2.0.1", dist: { tarball: `${origin}/${pkgName}-2.0.1.tgz` } } },
            "dist-tags": { latest: "2.0.1" },
          },
          { headers: { "cache-control": "public, max-age=300" } },
        );
      },
    }),
  );

  const dirs: string[] = [];
  const children = servers.map((server, i) => {
    const dir = join(root, `r${round}-p${i}`);
    mkdirSync(join(dir, ".bun-cache"), { recursive: true });
    const ownTmp = join(dir, ".bun-tmp");
    if (separateTmp) mkdirSync(ownTmp, { recursive: true });
    writeFileSync(join(dir, "package.json"), JSON.stringify({ name: "app", dependencies: { [pkgName]: "2.0.1" } }));
    writeFileSync(join(dir, "bunfig.toml"), `[install]\nregistry = "${server.url.href}"\n`);
    dirs.push(dir);
    const tmp = separateTmp ? ownTmp : sharedTmp;
    return Bun.spawn({
      cmd: [bin, "install"],
      cwd: dir,
      env: {
        ...process.env,
        BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS: "1",
        BUN_INTERNAL_SYNC_MANIFEST_CACHE_WRITES: "1",
        BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR: join(dir, ".bun-cache"),
        BUN_TMPDIR: tmp, TMPDIR: tmp, TEMP: tmp, TMP: tmp,
      },
      stdout: "pipe",
      stderr: "pipe",
    });
  });

  const results = await Promise.all(children.map(async p => ({ code: await p.exited, err: await p.stderr.text() })));
  for (const server of servers) server.stop(true);

  results.forEach((r, i) => {
    if (r.code !== 0) { installFailed++; console.log(`round ${round} proc ${i}: install exited ${r.code}\n${r.err}`); return; }
    const cache = join(dirs[i], ".bun-cache");
    const entries = readdirSync(cache).filter(n => n.endsWith(".npm"));
    if (entries.length === 0) { missing++; console.log(`round ${round} proc ${i}: entry MISSING`); return; }
    const path = join(cache, entries[0]);
    const text = new TextDecoder("latin1").decode(new Uint8Array(readFileSync(path)));
    let parsed: unknown = null, parseError = "";
    try { parsed = parseManifest(path, servers[i].url.href); } catch (e: any) { parseError = String(e?.message ?? e); }
    if (!text.includes(servers[i].url.href.replace(/\/$/, "")) || !parsed) {
      invalid++;
      const other = servers.findIndex(s => text.includes(s.url.href.replace(/\/$/, "")));
      console.log(`round ${round} proc ${i}: entry INVALID for its registry (holds proc ${other}'s tarball URL, parse: ${parsed ? "ok" : parseError})`);
    }
  });
}

console.log(`RESULT rounds=${rounds} procs=${procs} tmp=${separateTmp ? "separate" : "shared"}: missing=${missing} invalid=${invalid} installFailed=${installFailed} of ${rounds * procs} installs`);
rmSync(root, { recursive: true, force: true });

Output on Windows (debug build of this branch):

RESULT rounds=40 procs=4 tmp=shared: missing=8 invalid=6 installFailed=0 of 160 installs
RESULT rounds=40 procs=4 tmp=separate: missing=0 invalid=0 installFailed=0 of 160 installs

Output on Linux (release build of this branch): tmp=shared: missing=0 invalid=0 installFailed=0 of 80 installs.

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The temporary file name collision in Serializer::save described above is fixed in #40377 (unique name through FileSystem::tmpname, with a Windows probe and two tests). This PR's harness flag is still the answer for the exit race.

Jarred-Sumner pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 25, 2026
### Problem
- `test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts` > "peer no published version
satisfies" > "declared by a registry package" (from #38851) fails on
main about every fourth build (build 104990).
`expect(registry.requests).toEqual([])` at bun-lock.test.ts:1778
receives `["/peer-target"]`: the manifest cache has no usable entry for
`peer-target`. It has two causes. #40073 covers the first, the
`save_async` exit race. This PR fixes the second.
- `Serializer::save` (src/install/npm.rs:1352) named the temporary file
`<name hash>.npm-<milliseconds>` in the temporary directory every bun
process shares. The four concurrent peer tests all save `peer-target`,
and two saves in one millisecond opened one file. Windows, release
build, four installs saving one package at once: 77 of 80 lost their
entry. Linux uses `O_TMPFILE` today; #38916 starts using the name on
Linux too, so this fix has to land first.

### Fix
- `Serializer::save` names the file with `FileSystem::tmpname`, as
`TarballStream` already does. Correct because the name no longer depends
on anything two processes share.
- Two tests in `bun-install-registry.test.ts`: four synchronized
installs keep their own valid entries, and an install still caches its
manifest when directories occupy the old temporary names. The second
fails 3 of 3 on Windows without the fix and passes 5 of 5 with it. The
test registry serves the tarball only after the cache entry exists, so
neither test depends on the exit race.
- Verified: `bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-install-registry.test.ts`
(250 pass) on Linux, both new tests on Windows.

### Background
- Manifest cache: each fetched manifest is serialized to `<cache
dir>/<name hash>-<registry hash>.npm`. Within the response's `max-age`,
a later install resolves from that file and makes no request.
- `write_file` opens the temporary file with `O_CREAT | O_TRUNC`,
writes, then renames it into the cache. Two processes on one name write
one file. On macOS the second rename fails and the first cache holds the
second's bytes, which `load_by_file` rejects. On Windows `rename_at_w`
moves by handle, so the second rename moves the file out of the first
cache again.
- The exit race: `save_async` writes the entry from a thread pool task
that `bun install` does not wait for, by design (#37203). The test
change in #39190 works around it for the bun-lock test. The harness flag
in #40073 removes it from every install test.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

Probe (Windows, 16 vCPUs): one registry and one project per install,
`dependencies: { "peer-target": "2.0.1" }`, each registry holds its
manifest response until all four have been asked, then all respond at
once. After exit, the `.npm` entry is read and checked for the install's
own registry origin.

| binary | temp dir | rounds | ok | missing | wrong registry |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1.4.1-canary.1 (release, unfixed) | shared `%TEMP%` | 20 | 3 | 60 | 17
|
| 1.4.1-canary.1 (release, unfixed) | shared, responses not synchronized
| 40 | 135 | 17 | 8 |
| 1.4.1-canary.1 (release, unfixed) | one per install | 40 | 160 | 0 | 0
|
| debug, unfixed | shared | 20 | 74 | 3 | 3 |
| debug, this branch | shared | 20 | 80 | 0 | 0 |

The unfixed debug build loses far fewer entries than the release build
because its slower parse spreads the four saves over several
milliseconds. That is also why the concurrent test detects the bug
almost always on release lanes and only sometimes on a debug build. The
directory test fails deterministically on a debug build (3 of 3 and, in
an earlier shape of the test, 5 of 5 on Windows).

Windows mechanism in detail: `open_file_at_windows` maps `O_CREAT |
O_TRUNC` to `FILE_OVERWRITE_IF` with `FILE_SHARE_READ | WRITE | DELETE`,
so every process opens and truncates the same file. `rename_at_w`
(src/sys/windows/mod.rs:1933) opens the source by path and then moves it
by handle. When two processes have opened the path before either moves
it, both moves succeed: the second one relocates the file out of the
first process's cache. That process sees a successful save and has no
entry, which is the "no entry, no error" case in the probe.

`FileSystem::tmpname` (src/resolver/lib.rs:198) formats `.<random ^
nanoseconds>-<counter>.<ext>`. The temporary directory probe in
`PackageManagerDirectories.rs` and `TarballStream::open_destination` use
it the same way.

Test registry and the exit race: both new tests read the cache after the
install exits. To keep them independent of the `save_async` exit race,
the registry answers the tarball request only once a `.npm` entry exists
in the project's cache (polling with a 5 second deadline, after which it
answers anyway so a lost write ends as a failed assertion instead of a
hang). The tarball is requested after the manifest is parsed, so the
install cannot finish before its entry is on disk.

Sequencing: #38916 changes the Linux `O_TMPFILE` path to link the file
into the temporary directory under `tmp_path` before renaming it over an
existing entry, which makes the name load-bearing on Linux. This PR
should land before it. #39190 (the bun-lock warm-up loop) and #40073
(harness flag) handle the exit race; an earlier shape of this PR carried
#39190's commit, which the self-review flagged as a duplicate of an open
PR, so it was dropped.

Gate: the fixed code path is not reachable on Linux today (`O_TMPFILE`),
so the new tests pass on Linux with and without the fix. The fail-before
proof is the Windows run above.

Also run: `cargo clippy -p bun_install`, clean.

</details>

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**no test proof** · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not
run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms:
test/cli/install/bun-install-registry.test.ts,
test/cli/install/bun-lock.test.ts

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