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Release the poll and surface the error when a Bun.file() stream read fails - #41420

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Problem

  • A Bun.file().stream() whose read(2) fails with no pull pending never settles. for await (const c of Bun.file("/proc/self/mem").stream()) hangs forever, while Bun.file(path).text() rejects with EIO (Error the Bun.file() stream when read() fails instead of hanging the pull promise #33362).
  • After a read error on a pollable fd (a pty master, a non-blocking pipe) the process never exits. reader.read() rejects with EIO: i/o error, read, but the FilePoll stays registered and the dup'd fd open. An errored stream is never cancelled, so nothing releases them.
  • Both come from FileReader::on_reader_error (src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs). It only runs pending, a no-op unless a pull is pending (Pending::run), and it never closes the reader.

Fix

  • on_reader_error settles the pending pull when there is one. Otherwise it stores the error in a new read_error slot, and the next on_pull returns it after any buffered bytes (reader_finished, end_of_reader).
  • on_reader_error then closes the reader (close_after_error): it marks the source done and releases the poll and the fd through deinit, which reports no second completion.
  • Verified: test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js (6 new tests, 5 fail on 1.4.1). Also the rest of test/js/web/streams/, the fs, stream and spawn suites.

Background

  • FileReader is the native source behind Bun.file().stream(). A pull first tries a synchronous read (read_into). With no data on a pollable fd, the BufferedReader registers a poll and the pull becomes pending. A registered poll keeps the event loop alive.
  • The reader reports through on_read_chunk, on_reader_done or on_reader_error. On EOF it closes itself before it reports. On error it did not.
  • sink is the native consumer path (a fetch body). It gets the error through sink.end and needs the same reader close.
Notes

This supersedes #33362, which stores the error in a read_error slot in the same way but does not release the poll and the fd. Its tests are carried over unchanged.

A stream over a non-blocking pty master with a pending read: before this change the rejection lands and the process then hangs, with or without reader.cancel() or releaseLock() afterwards. cancel() on an errored stream rejects with the stored error and never reaches the native source.

The sync pull path reaches on_reader_error from inside on_pull. The reader is closed by the time read_into returns, so on_pull returns the stored error through end_of_reader in the same call, where it previously returned Pending with no poll registered.

The second PR, for tty.ReadStream on a non-blocking fd (#41414), is built on this branch and needs the poll release: node-pty's pty master reports the child's exit as EIO.

Pre-existing failures on a debug build, with or without this change: test/js/node/process/stdin/stdin-fixtures.test.ts (the runner kills the child after 1 s, a debug child needs 1.1 s) and test/js/web/streams/streams-leak.test.ts "Absolute memory usage" (times out at 5 s).


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

…) stream read fails

FileReader::on_reader_error delivered the error only through the pending
pull. With no pull pending (a synchronous read inside on_pull, or an error
between pulls) the error was dropped and the next pull waited forever.
Store it in a read_error slot and return it from the next on_pull, after
any buffered bytes.

The reader also kept its poll registered and its fd open after the error.
An errored stream is never cancelled, so the registered poll kept the
event loop alive. Close the reader right after the error is delivered.
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FileReader now preserves read errors until buffered data is consumed, settles pending reads, closes errored resources, and reports errors once. Stream tests cover EIO, EBADF, multiple consumers, and pollable descriptors.

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FileReader read-error handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deferred error state and completion flow
src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs
FileReader stores deferred errors, delivers buffered data before reporting them, settles pending reads, closes errored readers, and returns each error once.
File-stream error coverage
test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js
Linux-gated tests verify EIO and EBADF propagation through iteration, readers, piping, text reads, and pollable descriptors.

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In `@src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs`:
- Around line 965-969: Update the cleanup branch around
waiting_for_on_reader_done to decrement the parent reference whenever that flag
is set, removing the redundant !self.done.get() guard. Add a debug assertion
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Updated 3:15 AM PT - Sep 5th, 2026

@robobun, your commit b2e8cca is building: #110378

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Beyond the inline finding, I traced the refcount balance through the refactored on_reader_error: the pin increment_count now taken before all three branches is matched by the tail decrement_count on every path, and the waiting_for_on_reader_done decrement in between is the same across-read ref the old code released — net delta is unchanged for the sink, pending-pull, and new stored-error branches. close_after_error() runs while the pin still holds count ≥ 1, so self is live there.

Extended reasoning...

The confirmed inline finding covers the start_for_sink interaction with the new done = true in close_after_error. Separately I checked whether hoisting the increment_count pin above the sink branch changes the net refcount on any path — it does not: the old sink branch had no pin and at most one decrement (the across-read ref); the new sink branch adds one pin increment and one matching tail decrement around the same conditional across-read decrement, so the net is identical. The pending-pull and stored-error branches likewise match the old non-sink path's net. close_after_error() is called between the across-read decrement and the pin release, so the pin guarantees self is still alive when reader().deinit() runs.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🔴 src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs — A read error stored during native sink hookup is dropped and the sink ends cleanly. close_after_error() now sets done = true when on_reader_error fires with no sink; when that happens inside start_for_sink() (poll registration fails in reader().start(), or the initial read() for a from_pipe reader errors), the hookup then attaches the sink and pull_into_sink() sees done and calls sink.end(None) here — a fetch/HTMLRewriter body reads as empty where the base branch's retry read() delivered sink.end(err). Fix: pass self.read_error.replace(None).map(streams::StreamError::Error) to this sink.end(...) so a stored read error reaches the sink.

    Extended reasoning...

    Bun.file(pollable_fd).stream() (or a Bun.spawn stdout stream) is wired natively — fetch body, HTMLRewriter input, Bun.write — via wire_to_native_sink (ReadableStream.rs:366-389). Line 367 reads !file_reader.done.get() as true, then start_for_sink() runs on_start(). For a pollable fd reader().start(fd, true) calls register_poll() (PipeReader.rs:561); on epoll_ctl/kevent failure (ENOSPC max_user_watches, ENOMEM) it dispatches on_reader_error. With no sink and no pending pull the new third branch stores the error in read_error, and close_after_error() (FileReader.rs:983-985) sets done = true and deinits the reader. start() still returns Ok, on_start() returns Ready, start_for_sink() returns None, and ReadableStream.rs:383-388 sets file_reader.sink, sink_paused = true, and calls pull_into_sink(). There reader_done || self.done.get() is true → sink.end(None) at line 575; the stored read_error is never read (only on_pull consults it). On the base branch on_reader_error neither set done nor closed the reader, so pull_into_sink() fell…

    Verification: normal — the change adds a path where a read error is silently dropped and a native sink ends cleanly, where base surfaced it. Trigger: wire_to_native_sink (ReadableStream.rs:366-389) checks !file_reader.done.get() once at :367, then calls start_for_sink() → on_start(). Inside on_start() two calls can synchronously dispatch on_reader_error before any sink is attached: -… | normal —…

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Good catch on the sink hookup. A read error that lands during start_for_sink (poll registration failure, or the initial read of a from_pipe reader) is stored with no sink attached, and pull_into_sink then saw done and ended the sink cleanly. 3901fcb passes the stored error to sink.end there, and buffered bytes go out as Owned (not OwnedAndDone) so the error follows them. I could not trigger that path from a test (it needs epoll_ctl to fail), so it is covered by reading, not by a test.

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Use RAII. Don't use manual ref / deref

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Done in 7187863. A SourcePin guard takes the ref in new() and releases it in Drop. on_reader_error, on_reader_done and on_read_chunk use it instead of the increment_count / decrement_count pairs. The across-read ref (waiting_for_on_reader_done) stays a stored flag because its lifetime spans from start to the reader's completion, not a scope.

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Note: #41456 makes the same change to FileReader::on_reader_error (a stored read_error, deinit on error) as part of a fix for subprocess stdio errors. Whichever PR lands second rebases that one function.

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…hem (#41456)

### Problem
- A `recv()` or `send()` on a subprocess stdio socket that fails with an
errno other than `EAGAIN`/`EINTR` (`ENOBUFS`, `ENOMEM`, `EIO`,
`ECONNRESET`) is lost in four places. `Bun.spawn({stdin:
ReadableStream})` truncates the child's input and never calls the
stream's `cancel()`. `child.stdout` from `node:child_process` emits
`'close'` with no `'error'`. `Bun.spawn` rejects the read with `EIO` but
keeps the stdout fd open, so a still-writing child blocks and
`proc.exited` never settles. `Bun.spawnSync` returns `{stdout:
undefined, success: true}`.
- The common cause is `FileReader::on_reader_error`
(`src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs`): it only rejects a parked read.
With none parked it drops the error, leaves the fd and the poll in
place, and the next pull reads on. #41420 (merged) fixes that function
for `Bun.file().stream()`. The buffered `SubprocessPipeReader` turns an
error into `Readable::Ignore` (`subprocess.rs:on_close_io`),
`native-readable.ts` `_destroy` calls its callback without the error,
and `FileSink::on_close` hands the piped stream `undefined` as its
cancel reason.

### Fix
- On top of #41420's `read_error` slot, now on main: `on_pull` returns a
stored error before it consults the reader state, so a reader that never
started can end with one.
- `Readable::Errored(bytes, err)` keeps a buffered pipe's partial output
and error, and the reader releases its fd at once, the way EOF does, so
the child gets `EPIPE`. `.stdout` becomes a stream that delivers the
bytes and then errors (`ReadableStream::from_bytes_then_error`).
`Bun.spawnSync` throws the error, so `child_process.spawnSync` reports
`result.error` and `execFileSync` throws.
- `native-readable.ts` passes the error to the `_destroy` callback, so
the node `Readable` emits `'error'` before `'close'`.
`FileSink::on_close` passes the recorded write error to the source, and
the pump's abrupt path (`rsisAbrupt`) cancels the stream with it even
though its own orphaned reader holds the lock.
- Verified: `test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts` (12
tests, all fail on 1.4.1; an `LD_PRELOAD` shim fails the Nth
`recv`/`send` on the stdio socketpair). Also `test/js/bun/spawn/`,
`test/js/node/child_process/`, `test/js/node/stream/`,
`test/js/web/streams/`, `test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js`, the shell
fault tests.

### Background
- `Bun.spawn` reads stdout into a `SubprocessPipeReader` until JS
touches `.stdout`. Then the fd and its buffer move into a `FileReader`,
the native source behind the JS `ReadableStream`. A JS pull first tries
a synchronous read; with no data it registers a poll and parks a
`Pending` promise.
- The `BufferedReader` reports `on_read_chunk`, `on_reader_done` (EOF:
it closes itself first) or `on_reader_error` (it did not close).
- `node:child_process` wraps the native stream with
`native-readable.ts`, a `Readable` whose `_read` calls the native
`pull`. A sync throw from `pull` reaches `errorOrDestroy`, which calls
`_destroy(err, cb)`. Node's contract is `cb(err)`.
- A `ReadableStream` given as `stdin` is pumped into a `FileSink` by
`readStreamIntoSink` (`BunStreamSource.cpp`). A sink write that fails
synchronously throws into the pump (`rsisAbrupt`). A write that fails
later closes the writer, which calls the pump's `onClose(reason)`.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

The four faces come from a fault-injection fuzz round (internal ledger
entries 20002 to 20005, not GitHub issues): strace injected errnos on
the parent's stdio socketpairs. All four pre-date 1.4.

Open question for review: `Bun.spawnSync` has no error channel other
than a throw, so the partial output, the exit code and the pid are lost
when a stdio read fails. Node's `spawnSync` returns `{error, status,
pid, stdout: <partial>}`. A result field on `Bun.spawnSync` (next to
`exitedDueToMaxBuffer`) would let `child_process.spawnSync` match Node.
That is new API surface, so this PR keeps the throw.

Follow-up candidates, kept out of this PR: the fd release on a read
error belongs once in `PosixBufferedReader::on_error`
(`src/io/PipeReader.rs`) for every parent, not per parent. The
`native-readable.ts` `_destroy` fix also makes a user's
`child.stdout.destroy(err)` emit `'error'` before `'close'`.

The strace-based repros from the ledger reproduce with the test's shim
(strace is not available in the build container). On 1.4.1:

- stdin stream, `send` #3 fails with `ENOBUFS`: `cancelReason
"not-called"`, the child reads 131072 of 8388608 bytes, exit code 0,
nothing thrown.
- child_process, `recv` #3 fails with `EIO`: events `["stdout.close",
"exit:1:null"]`, 360448 of 8000000 bytes.
- Bun.spawn `for await`, `recv` #3 fails: `rerr "EIO"`, then `exited`
does not settle, the child sits in `do_wait`/`sock_alloc_send_pskb`.
With `recv` #4 failing instead the error is swallowed and reading
continues.
- Bun.spawnSync: `{stdout: undefined, exitCode: 0, success: true}`;
`cp.spawnSync` `{stdout: null, status: 0, error: undefined}`;
`execFileSync` returns `null`.

`rsisAbrupt` cleared `op->m_reader` and then tested
`isReadableStreamLocked(stream)`. The orphaned reader still locks the
stream, so that branch never ran and the source's `cancel()` was never
called. The old JS pump had the same gap (`stream.cancel(e)` on a locked
stream rejects).

The shim interposes `syscall()` for `SYS_close` as well as `close()`:
bun closes fds through the raw syscall, so a per-fd counter that only
reset in `close()` carried over to a recycled fd number.

Pre-existing on this machine with or without the change (debug ASAN
build): `test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-pipe-leak.test.ts` exceeds its 30 s
budget (450 ms per iteration),
`test/js/web/streams/streams-leak.test.ts` "Absolute memory usage" sits
at the 700 MB ASAN bound (692 to 713 MB across runs on both builds), and
`child_process.test.ts` "spawn in the default shell" fails on the
released bun too.
</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/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts

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### Problem
- `test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts` is red on
alpine: `"lost": -82000`, not `0` (build 120303). #43739 added the case,
not the bug.
- `read_loop` (`src/io/PipeReader.rs:766`) delivers the bytes read
before a failed read, then the error. The consumer asks for more inside
that delivery, and the reader reads the fd past the error. The error
comes late, or never.

### Fix
- `read_once` sets `PosixFlags::READ_FAILED` on a fatal error, and
`begin_read` does not read while it is set. The request parks, then
`on_reader_error` rejects it. Nothing clears the flag.
- Correct: libuv `uv__read` clears `UV_HANDLE_READABLE` before it
reports a read error.
- Verified: `test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts`, 17
pass. The four new cases fail without the fix. Suites: Notes.
- Self-reviewed: 15 concerns raised, 14 addressed. Not taken: a flag
reset in `start()`, which nothing on main needs.

### Background
- `PosixBufferedReader` reads the fd behind subprocess stdio, file
streams and the shell. Its parent gets `on_read_chunk`, then
`on_reader_done` or `on_reader_error`.
- `FileReader` is the parent behind a `ReadableStream`. `on_read_chunk`
resolves the parked `pull()`, and the reaction runs before it returns.
- Considered: a repeating shim failure hides the lost error. An error
stored in `FileReader` first needs a callback in every parent.
- #43920 is a newer PR with the same change. Its test trigger is here.

### Downsides
- After a read error, a stream that ended with `'end'` now ends with
`'error'`, as in Node. With no listener the process stops.
- After a read error, `bun run --filter` no longer drains that pipe at
exit.
- Reads that do not fail pay nothing: `begin_read` tests one more bit.

<details><summary>Notes</summary>

**Trace without the fix** (bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9, shim logs each
`recv()`, writer `dd bs=1025`). The debug build of main at 8d36bff
does the same: 3 of 8 runs, two with no `'error'` and `lost` -7714150:

```
recv #5 len=262144 -> 95325
recv #6 len=166819 -> EIO (injected)      same fill_scratch call as #5
JS data 95325
recv #7 len=65536 -> 65536                 pull from inside the delivery, read_into
recv #8 .. #116                            to EOF
{"received":452025,"got":8000125,"lost":-7548100,"events":["stdout.close","close"]}
```

No `'error'` event: the reads reached EOF before `on_reader_error` ran,
and a stored error is only returned by a later pull. When the reads park
first, `on_reader_error` rejects that pull and `'error'` comes late.
That is the CI signature: the events match and `lost` is a negative
multiple of 1025.

**Why alpine.** In CI the failure is injected: the shim fails only the
Nth `recv()`, so a later `recv()` succeeds and the extra bytes show. The
failing `recv()` must follow bytes in the same wakeup. BusyBox `head`
writes 1025 bytes at a time, so a wakeup often holds a short `recv()`
and then the failing one. coreutils `head` fills the buffer in one
`recv()`. The same run fails on debian when the writer is slow. With a
writer that copies BusyBox `head` (stdio, 1024-byte buffer), the
`RECV_AT=6` case fails 7 of 40 runs on bun 1.4.3-canary (release), and
36 of 40 when the writer also spins between chunks. This branch (debug):
0 of 120, and 0 of 60 with `dd bs=1025`.

**With no shim.** A child with one AF_UNIX socket as fd 0 and fd 1
writes a line to stdout and reads stdin. The peer leaves that line
unread, sends 8192 bytes and closes. The kernel gives the child 8192
bytes, then `ECONNRESET`, then EOF.

| Runtime | stdin events |
|---|---|
| Node v26.3.0 | `'error'` `ECONNRESET` after 8192 bytes |
| bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 | `'end'` after 8192 bytes, no error |
| this branch | `'error'` `ECONNRESET` after 8192 bytes |

**The new cases.** Each one reaches the reader from inside the delivery
in a different way. Whole-file runs of the describe block:

| Case | Entry | Release, no fix | Debug, no fix | Debug, guard in
`read_into` only | Debug, this branch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `child_process`, `'data'` listener | pull, `read_into` | fails 6 of 6
| fails 5 of 5 | passes | passes |
| `child_process`, `'readable'` and `read()` | `set_flowing(true)`,
`read` | fails 6 of 6 | fails 5 of 5 | fails 3 of 3 | passes |
| `Bun.spawn`, `lazy` | pull, `read_into` | fails 6 of 6 | fails 5 of 5
| passes | passes |
| `Bun.spawn`, reader started at spawn | pull, `read_into` | fails 6 of
6 | fails 5 of 5 | passes | passes |

- The first three use counts: `SPAWN_FAULT_RECV_CAP=4096` makes every
`recv()` short, so `fill_scratch` calls `recv()` again in the same
wakeup. `SPAWN_FAULT_RECV_EAGAIN_AT=2` ends the first read loop, so the
consumer's read parks and the next read is poll-driven.
`SPAWN_FAULT_RECV_AT` then fails after bytes in that wakeup. For the
`'readable'` case it is 19: #3 to #18 return 64 KiB, the highWaterMark,
so the reader is stopped and `read()` starts it again.
- The fourth uses state, and comes from #43920: the writer waits for a
line on stdin, so the first read is parked when the bytes arrive.
`SPAWN_FAULT_RECV_MID_FILL=1` fails the `recv()` that follows one that
returned bytes, and `SPAWN_FAULT_READS_AFTER` counts the `recv()` calls
after it. Without the fix it is 1.
- With a count-based trigger and the reader started at spawn, the case
passed without the fix on a debug build: the buffered reader that runs
before JS reads `.stdout` took the bytes and the error. That is why this
case uses state.
- With the BusyBox-like writer at four speeds, the whole file passes 20
of 20 on this branch.

**With the fix**, `CAP=4096 EAGAIN_AT=2 RECV_AT=5`:

```
recv #3 -> 4096, recv #4 -> 4096, recv #5 -> EIO
JS data 8192
close(fd)
JS error EIO
```

**Node.** libuv `uv__read` (`src/unix/stream.c`): on a read error other
than `EAGAIN` it clears `UV_HANDLE_READABLE | UV_HANDLE_WRITABLE`, calls
`read_cb` with the error, then stops the watcher. It calls `read_cb`
once for each `read()`, so it never holds bytes and an error from one
batch.

**Placement.** EOF and the `maxBuffer` stop have the same guard at this
site: `close_if_final` closes the reader before the final chunk is
delivered. An error cannot use it, because a closed reader with no
stored error reads as a clean end. For the same reason `READ_FAILED` is
not part of `is_done()`.

**Parents** (14 `BufferedReaderParent` implementations, what each does
in `on_reader_error`):

- 3 release the fd: `FileReader`, `SubprocessPipeReader`, `Terminal`.
- 2 drop the reader: `FileResponseStream`, shell `subproc.rs`.
- 8 only do accounting: `filter_run.rs`, `multi_run.rs`,
`lifecycle_script_runner.rs`, `security_scanner.rs`, `git_runner.rs`,
both cron jobs, test `Worker.rs`. `lifecycle_script_runner.rs` and
`cron.rs` build a new reader with `init()` for each spawn.
- 1 is shared and can restart: the shell `IOReader`.

Only two read the same reader after an error. `filter_run.rs`
`drain_and_close_pipes` reads once more at exit. That read is now a
no-op, and `deinit()` follows. Before, it could reach a second terminal
callback and decrement `remaining_fds` twice. The shell
`IOReader::start()` does not restart a reader after a failed read on
main, because the fired one-shot poll still counts as registered. The
Windows reader gets one libuv callback for each read, so it has no
bytes-then-error batch.

**Left open.**

- The flag is permanent. #39638 and #37901 change `IOReader::start()` to
restart the shell's stdin reader. After this PR they must clear
`READ_FAILED` there, or a `cat` that follows a stdin read error gets no
data, no EOF and no error.
- Not in this PR: a batch that stops because the buffer is full is
labelled `ReadState::Eof` when the poll event carries the hangup
(`read_state`, `None if received_hup`). `Bun.write(file, proc.stdout)`
then writes 262144 of 400000 pending bytes and resolves. It is on main
and in 1.4.3-canary, and this PR does not change it. It needs its own
change.
- Not in this PR: release the fd on a read error once, in
`PosixBufferedReader::on_error`. #41456 names it as a follow-up. #41420,
#41456 and #42150 did it for one parent each.

**Suites run on the debug build:** `test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js`
(624 pass), `test/js/node/stream/node-stream.test.js` (112 pass),
`test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-streaming-stdout.test.ts` (pass),
`test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts` (81 pass, 2 fail in
my container for reasons outside this change: "spawn in the default
shell" reads an empty `$SHELL`, and "extra stdio pipes are not
double-closed on GC" needs 5.0 s in a debug build against the 5 s
timeout, its script prints `OK`). With this branch's build, the test
file of #43920 passes 17 of 17 in 3 runs.

#43790 is open and edits the comment above the failing case. It changes
the event order in `native-readable.ts`, not the reader.

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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/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts

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