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Problem

  • A cloned repository with a .env that sets GIT_SSH_COMMAND=<cmd> and a git dependency runs <cmd> on bun install --ignore-scripts. GIT_EXEC_PATH and GIT_CONFIG_* do the same.
  • HTTP_PROXY in that .env receives the install's requests, with the token saved in ~/.npmrc. NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 turns off certificate checks.
  • Cause: PackageManager::init merges .env* into its loader. GitEnv::init (src/install/repository.rs) cloned that map for every git child. http_proxy() and tls_reject_unauthorized() read it too.

Fix

  • PackageManager::init keeps a second loader, process_env, with only the process environment. GitEnv, http_proxy(), tls_reject_unauthorized() and has_http_proxy() read it.
  • These settings run commands or route credentials, so only the invoking user sets them.
  • After the first failed request or git command, one note names the variables that only .env has, also for bun info, pm view, pm diff and audit.
  • Verified: seven new tests in test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts (six fail on 1.4.3), one in bun-audit.test.ts. Also bun-info.test.ts, bun-pm-diff.test.ts.

Background

  • bun install loads the project's .env* files for $NPM_TOKEN style references in bunfig.toml. That expansion, registry settings and lifecycle scripts still read the merged loader.
  • The runtime's auto-install loads no .env* itself and keeps the runtime's loader, as on main.

Downsides

  • A proxy, TLS or GIT_* setting that only the project's .env has no longer applies (bun install/update hanged behind proxy #24035 keeps HTTP_PROXY there). Such an install fails and prints the note.
  • Each package manager start copies the process environment again: +2 malloc calls per variable (4 measured, 2 on main). Per request nothing changes.
Notes

Repro (git and bun only, the command runs before any network connection):

D=$(mktemp -d); cd $D
printf '#!/bin/sh\necho "EXECUTED by bun install: $*" >> %s/RAN.txt; exit 255\n' $D > m.sh; chmod +x m.sh
echo '{"name":"victim","dependencies":{"g":"git+ssh://git@example.invalid/o/r.git"}}' > package.json
echo "GIT_SSH_COMMAND=$D/m.sh" > .env
bun install --ignore-scripts; cat RAN.txt
# EXECUTED by bun install: -G -o SendEnv=GIT_PROTOCOL git@example.invalid
# EXECUTED by bun install: git@example.invalid git-upload-pack '/o/r.git'

With this branch RAN.txt does not exist. GIT_SSH_COMMAND=... bun install (a real environment variable) still runs the user's command. The dotenv loader never overrides a variable of the real environment, so the hole needs a variable that the user did not set.

The note, printed at most once for requests and once for git, with names only. It names the command that ran:

note: bun install reads GIT_SSH_COMMAND from the environment only, not from .env files.
note: bun install reads NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED from the environment only, not from .env files.
note: bun info reads ALL_PROXY from the environment only, not from .env files.

It lists the variables that the project's .env* files set and the process environment does not: HTTP_PROXY, HTTPS_PROXY, ALL_PROXY, NO_PROXY (either case) and NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED after a request that failed to send, every GIT_* and SSH_* variable after a failed git command. That includes a clone that the host answers with "repository not found", where the install prints no git output. The two guides state the general rule: the git of an install sees no variable of the .env* files. Every caller of http_proxy() prints it: the install's network tasks (install, add, update, outdated), pm_view_command.rs (bun info, bun pm view), pm_diff_command.rs and audit_command.rs.

bun audit did not set reject_unauthorized on its request, so it ignored NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED from every source. It now reads tls_reject_unauthorized(), as bun info and bun pm diff do, so the note names only variables that the command reads. An install that succeeds prints nothing, so a project that keeps HTTP_PROXY in .env for its application sees no new output. The known user of the old behavior is #24035 (HTTP_PROXY / HTTPS_PROXY in the project's .env for bun install).

The new tests, each with the variable under test removed from the real environment of the install:

  • GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1, GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=core.fsmonitor, GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=<cmd> in .env, with a git+file:// dependency. <cmd> must not run, the install succeeds, and no note is printed.
  • GIT_SSH_COMMAND=<cmd> in .env, with a git+ssh:// dependency. The core.sshCommand of the user's ~/.gitconfig runs, <cmd> does not, and the note names GIT_SSH_COMMAND and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK that the same .env sets. Both commands are local recorders that exit 255, and GIT_ALLOW_PROTOCOL=ssh stops the https attempt, so nothing touches the network.
  • An http.extraHeader credential in .env (GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0, GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0), with a git+http:// dependency on a host that answers 404 with "Repository not found.". The host receives no Authorization header, and the note names the three variables. On 1.4.3 the host receives the header.
  • HTTP_PROXY in .env, with a registry dependency and a token for that registry in the user's ~/.npmrc. The manifest and tarball requests go direct with the token, and the proxy sees nothing. On 1.4.3 the proxy receives both requests with authorization: Bearer user-SECRET-token. A second install with HTTP_PROXY in the real environment goes through the proxy.
  • NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 in .env, with an https tarball URL on a self-signed certificate. The install fails with DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT and the note names the variable. A second install with the variable in the real environment succeeds.
  • ALL_PROXY in .env, with a registry that closes every connection and a proxy that would answer for it. bun install, bun info, bun pm view, bun pm diff and bun audit each exit 1 with the note for their command, and the proxy sees no request.
  • Auto-install: the same closed registry, and a proxy from the project's .env or from a process.env write. fetch() and import() both work through the proxy. This test passes on main too. It pins that the runtime path did not change.
  • In bun-audit.test.ts: a self-signed registry. With NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 only in .env the audit fails with DEPTH_ZERO_SELF_SIGNED_CERT and the note. With the variable in the real environment it succeeds.

The startup cost, measured with the allocator statistics of the debug build (ASAN_OPTIONS=print_stats=1:atexit=1), bun install in an empty project: 268 malloc calls with 32 environment variables, 668 with 132, 4268 with 1032. Repeated runs give the same counts. That is 4 calls per variable. bun pm cache rm, which builds a third loader of the process environment, makes 305 and 905 calls, 6 per variable. So one loader costs 2 calls per variable (the name and the value), main's bun install has one loader, and this PR adds one. I have no instruction count: perf and valgrind are not installed where I build. The change adds one field to PackageManager and no host function or generated binding.

Other suites run on this branch with the debug build, after the merge of main at f4d755a: bun-info.test.ts (27 pass), bun-pm-diff.test.ts (46 pass, 1 skip), bun-audit.test.ts (181 pass. One test, "audits and fixes a package served by a scoped registry", hit the 5 s default timeout once in the full-file run on a loaded machine and passes alone in 2.6 s), and the two auto-install tests that use a local registry (run-autoinstall.test.ts "name and version", autoinstall-cached-manifest.test.ts). Before the merge: npmrc.test.ts, bun-install-stalled-tls.test.ts, the two bun pm cache rm .env tests in bun-pm.test.ts, and "registry override from a project .env ..." in bun-install-registry.test.ts. cargo clippy -p bun_install and cargo fmt are clean.

git runs the GIT_SSH_COMMAND, core.sshCommand and core.fsmonitor values through sh -c. The GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, GIT_CONFIG_KEY_n and GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_n variables add config entries from the environment. bun pm cache rm already resolves its directory from a loader of the process environment only.

GitEnv is the only place where the install crate built a child environment from the merged loader, apart from lifecycle scripts. bun patch --commit resolves git on bun_core::env_var::PATH. pm view, pm diff and audit take their proxy and TLS settings from pm.http_proxy() and pm.tls_reject_unauthorized(), so they follow this change. NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS is read through bun_core::env_var, which never saw .env.

The runtime auto-install path (init_with_runtime_once) has no process_env: tooling_env() returns the loader the runtime hands it, as on main. Auto-install loads no .env* itself, the project's code runs in the same process, and fetch() there takes its proxy from the project's .env, from --env-file or from a process.env write. Auto-install takes the same proxy. The TLS switch is as on main too: auto-install takes it from .env and --env-file, and not from a process.env write. An earlier revision of this PR gave auto-install the process-only loader. That broke those three cases while fetch() kept working, and the note did not fit two of them.

Self-review of this diff raised eight design concerns. Addressed: the silent behavior change (the note and the guide sentence), the HTTP half restated around the saved token and pinned by the proxy test, the sentence about the security scanner, a line on the env field that says what it holds, and the bun build --compile download in the list below. Not taken: a process_env() accessor reused by bun pm cache rm (open #39750 edits those lines), and --no-env-file for the scanner child (a scanner can read its API key from .env).

Related and not covered here:

  • install: honor --env-file, --no-env-file and NODE_ENV=development for .env loading #36672 makes bun install honor --env-file, --no-env-file and bunfig env = false. Today neither flag stops the .env values above.
  • Do not pass GIT_DIR to the git that bun install and bun create spawn #41715 removes GIT_DIR and the other repository-location variables of the real environment from the same GitEnv. It touches the line next to this change in GitEnv::init.
  • The lifecycle script environment still contains the .env values.
  • In the runtime, the .env of the working directory configures auto-install as it configures fetch(). --no-env-file and bunfig env = false turn that load off there.
  • The security scanner child (src/install/PackageManager/security_scanner.rs) gets the process environment as its envp, but it is a bun -e process that starts in the project directory, so it loads the project's .env itself. Its requests still see a proxy from .env. A scanner can also read its API key from .env, so --no-env-file there is a separate decision.
  • bun build --compile --target=... downloads the base binary with the proxy of the bundler's loader (src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs, env.get_http_proxy_for), which includes .env.
  • GITHUB_API_URL (alloc_github_url, src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs) and the registry, token and cache variables still come from the merged loader. They select an endpoint or a directory that package.json, bunfig.toml or .npmrc in the same repository can select too, and the github: tarball request carries no credentials. Main keeps a registry override from the project's .env on purpose (bun-install-registry.test.ts, "registry override from a project .env only keeps the saved token when the host matches and the scheme is not downgraded").

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-git-deps.test.ts

…ient

bun install loads the project's .env* files for bunfig $VAR expansion.
GitEnv cloned that merged map into the environment of every git child,
and the HTTP client read its proxy and TLS settings from it. A cloned
repository that ships a .env with GIT_SSH_COMMAND, GIT_EXEC_PATH or a
GIT_CONFIG_* entry therefore ran a command during
`bun install --ignore-scripts`, and one with HTTPS_PROXY or
NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=0 rerouted or weakened the downloads.

The manager now keeps a second loader, process_env, that holds only the
environment the process started with. GitEnv, http_proxy(),
tls_reject_unauthorized() and the two has_http_proxy() checks read it.
bunfig expansion, registry settings and lifecycle scripts still read
the merged loader.
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Status: reproduced on bun 1.4.3 with the script in the PR notes. A GIT_SSH_COMMAND that exists only in the project's .env runs during bun install --ignore-scripts, and a value in the real environment does not. Six of the seven new tests in test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts and the new test in test/cli/install/bun-audit.test.ts fail on 1.4.3. All pass on this branch with the debug build on Linux x64. The seventh test pins that the runtime's auto-install did not change, so it passes on 1.4.3 too.

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Package installation now stores a process environment separately from project dotenv values. Proxy, TLS, and Git configuration use the process environment. Failure paths can report matching dotenv-only variables. Tests and install guides describe and check this separation.

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Process Environment Isolation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Process environment lifecycle
src/install/PackageManager.rs, src/install/lib.rs
PackageManager loads and stores a separate process environment during CLI and runtime initialization. ProcessOnlyEnv is re-exported from the install crate.
Proxy, TLS, and Git consumers
src/install/PackageManager.rs, src/install/PackageManager/install_with_manager.rs, src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs, src/install/git_runner.rs, src/install/repository.rs, src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_view_command.rs, docs/guides/install/*.mdx
Proxy and TLS lookups, proxy-based HTTP concurrency selection, and Git environment construction use process_env. Network and Git failure paths report matching dotenv-only variables. The install guides describe which settings must come from the command’s process environment.
Environment isolation validation
test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts
Tests check that .env Git, proxy, and TLS values do not configure install tooling, that process environment values remain effective, and that commands report dotenv-only proxy settings.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 9c82bd3 has 2 failures in Build #124297 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 42597

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-42597 executable, so you can run:

bun-42597 --bun

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After the first failed download or git command, print one note that
names the proxy, TLS or GIT_* variables that only the project's .env*
files set. An install that succeeds prints nothing.

The proxy test now installs a registry dependency with a token in the
user's ~/.npmrc, and checks that the proxy from .env sees neither the
requests nor the token. Two install guides state the rule.

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…, pm view, pm diff and audit

The note that follows a failed request now also names ALL_PROXY and
all_proxy, which main reads since #42692. It names the command that ran.

bun info, bun pm view, bun pm diff and bun audit send their requests
with the same proxy and TLS settings as bun install. They now print the
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Beyond the inline findings, two other candidates were checked and ruled out: the GitEnv::get signature change from &mut Loader to &Loader is behavior-preserving (init only ever cloned the map, never wrote back to the loader), and the new note in throttle_after_network_error cannot fire on an install that never saw a failed download — it is gated on download_failed, so it can appear before a retry that later succeeds, but only after a real failure that the .env-only proxy or TLS setting could explain.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a second, process-only dotenv loader to PackageManager and reroutes proxy, TLS and git-child environment reads to it, touching credential routing and child-process environment (security-sensitive). Four verified findings are posted inline and the hunt stopped at its bug cap, so approval is not on the table; this body only records what else was examined.

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…d read the TLS switch in audit

The process-only loader is for the package manager that loads .env*
itself (bun install and its family). The runtime's auto-install loads
no .env*: it keeps the loader the runtime hands it, as before, so that
auto-install and fetch() in one process take the same proxy.

bun audit now sets reject_unauthorized from tls_reject_unauthorized(),
as bun info and bun pm diff do, so the note names only variables that
the command reads.

The once-flag of the note uses SeqCst. The new tests use the default
timeout.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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

  • 🟡 src/install/git_runner.rs — Users whose project .env held git credentials for a private https dependency now get "git clone ... failed" with a repository-not-found error and no note naming the dropped variable. on_command_exit at git_runner.rs:780 skips report_failure whenever not_found matches, so the ProcessOnlyEnv::Git note at git_runner.rs:890 is never reached on that path. Fix: emit the .env-only note on every terminal git failure, including the not_found branch at git_runner.rs:807-816 (for example from fail()), so the diagnostic the PR relies on holds for every failed clone. GitHub and GitLab answer an unauthenticated clone of a private repository with remote: Repository not found. style text, which is exactly what the not_found match at git_runner.rs:774-779 catches.

    Why this was flagged

    A repository ships .env with GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=1, GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0=http.https://github.com/.extraheader and GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0=AUTHORIZATION: basic <token> and a git+https://github.com/org/private.git dependency; bun install --ignore-scripts is run with none of those in the real environment. On the base branch GitEnv::init cloned the merged loader, so git sent the header and the clone succeeded. After this change GitEnv::init (src/install/repository.rs:163-165) clones tooling_env, git clones without the header, and GitHub replies remote: Repository not found.. In on_command_exit (src/install/git_runner.rs:769-782) that stderr sets not_found, so report_failure is not called and note_dotenv_only_vars(ProcessOnlyEnv::Git) at src/install/git_runner.rs:890 never runs; the task fails at :807-816 with Error::RepositoryNotFound. The user gets a repository-not-found error and nothing says GIT_CONFIG_COUNT/GIT_CONFIG_KEY_0/GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_0 were not read from .env.

    Verification: Triggers when a project's .env carries the git auth for a private https dependency and the host answers the unauthenticated clone with "remote: Repository not found.". not_found at git_runner.rs:774-779 matches that stderr, and line 780 skips report_failure, the only place the git note is emitted (line 890). On the base branch the clone succeeded; after the diff the user sees only a repository-not-found failure with no note.

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…d, and name SSH_ variables

A host answers a clone of a private repository without credentials
with "not found". The install prints no git output on that path, so
the note did not appear either. It now follows every failed git command.

The note also names the SSH_* variables that only .env has. The two
guides say that the git of an install sees no variable of those files.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Comment thread src/install/git_runner.rs
Comment on lines +780 to +784
if !ok {
if !not_found {
this.report_failure(status, stderr);
}
this.manager().note_dotenv_only_vars(ProcessOnlyEnv::Git);

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🟡 (optional) Users whose install succeeds can still get the new note: bun install reads GIT_SSH_COMMAND ... from the environment only line, which the PR says never happens. git_runner.rs:784 prints it for every failed git command, including the https attempt that precedes the ssh retry for a git+ssh:// dependency (urls are popped https first, git_runner.rs:451-497). runTasks.rs:1990 likewise prints the network note on a transient download failure that the retry then recovers. Fix: print the note only when the failure is terminal, i.e. in the branches that call Self::fail/log_error after the URL forms are exhausted, and for network errors only when the task is not re-queued for retry; this covers both sites.

Why this was flagged

A project .env sets any GIT_* or SSH_* variable and package.json has a private git+ssh:// dependency. spawn_clone pops the https form first (src/install/git_runner.rs:451-454 push ssh then https, :496 pops). Without credentials git fails on https with a non-"not found" error, so on_command_exit enters if !ok at src/install/git_runner.rs:780 and calls note_dotenv_only_vars(ProcessOnlyEnv::Git) at :784 before the Step::Clone arm at :800 retries the ssh form, which succeeds. The user sees the note on an install that exits 0; the base branch prints only the pre-existing git stderr for the first attempt. The same happens at src/install/PackageManager/runTasks.rs:1990: throttle_after_network_error runs on the first download_failed even when retry re-queues the task and it then succeeds, so a project with HTTP_PROXY in .env and one connection reset sees the network note on a successful install. Nothing gates the note on the failure being final.

Verification: nit. A project .env* sets a GIT_*/SSH_* name the process env lacks, and a git+ssh:// dependency's https form fails with a non-"not found" error. The block at src/install/git_runner.rs:780-785 runs note_dotenv_only_vars(ProcessOnlyEnv::Git) for every !ok exit, before the Step::Clone arm at :796-809 retries the ssh URL. The ssh fallback succeeds, the install exits 0, yet the note is printed.

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pub fn http_proxy(&self, url: &URL<'_>) -> Option<URL<'static>> {
// `env_mut()` yields an unbounded `&'a Loader` (process-lifetime
// singleton), so the returned `URL<'_>` borrows for `'static`.
self.env_mut().get_http_proxy_for(url)
// SAFETY: the manager and the loader behind `env` are leaked
// process-lifetime singletons, and `process_env` is never written
// after `init()`.
let env: &'static dot_env::Loader =
unsafe { bun_ptr::detach_lifetime_ref(self.tooling_env()) };
env.get_http_proxy_for(url)

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: Pre-existing (memory safety): a script that writes a proxy variable to process.env while an auto-install request is pending can make the HTTP thread dial a freed buffer. http_proxy() at src/install/PackageManager.rs:902 detaches the loader reference to 'static, but on the runtime path tooling_env() is the VM loader, whose map value Bun__setEnvValue replaces and frees (src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs:2051, :2071). Fix: make the install's requests own their proxy bytes, as fetch() does with url_proxy_buffer, so the URL stored in NetworkTask.rs:666 and :887 never borrows the env map, and state that invariant in the SAFETY comment instead of "process_env is never written after init()", which does not cover the env() fallback.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A bun app.ts run without node_modules imports a package that auto-install must fetch; the resolver enters init_with_runtime_once, which sets process_env to None (src/install/PackageManager.rs:2584), so tooling_env() (:893-895) returns env(), the VM's transpiler loader. http_proxy() (:897-903) laundered that reference to 'static and returns a URL<'static> whose hostname slice points into the HashTableValue Box of the HTTPS_PROXY entry (src/dotenv/env_loader.rs:325-331). NetworkTask::for_manifest and for_tarball store it in the AsyncHTTP (src/install/NetworkTask.rs:666, :887); the HTTP thread dials url.hostname from it (src/http/HTTPThread.rs:506). Auto-install is asynchronous in the runtime, so JS can run process.env.HTTPS_PROXY = other meanwhile; Bun__setEnvValue puts a new Box or removes the entry (src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs:2051, :2071), freeing the bytes the pending request still points at. The base branch had the same borrow through env_mut(); the diff rewrites the function and adds a SAFETY comment whose stated invariant covers only process_env, not this fallback.

Verification: pre-existing (memory safety; the base reaches the same freed bytes by the same route). JS writes a proxy variable to process.env while an auto-install request is in flight. Bun__setEnvValue (src/runtime/api/BunObject.rs:2047-2071) writes vm.transpiler.env_mut().map, freeing the Box<[u8]> the HTTP thread's client.http_proxy borrows. The SAFETY comment does not cover the runtime path.

…all-env-isolation

# Conflicts:
#	test/cli/install/bun-install-git-deps.test.ts

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Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

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This is Claude (an AI assistant) writing on Jarred's behalf.

Partly included in #44968: nothing of the project's .env reaches the git that bun install runs. Not included: proxy and TLS variables from .env, which are still read.

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