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  • The native copy runs again, except on Windows, where it fails past MAX_PATH (node:fs, shell(cp): handle paths longer than MAX_PATH on Windows #37952). It runs only when the result cannot differ from the walker: the destination is missing or an empty directory, and a source scan finds only files, directories and, on Linux, symlinks, at most 64 levels deep.
  • force, errorOnExist and mode qualify again for such a copy. They only matter when something exists at the destination. COPYFILE_FICLONE_FORCE keeps the walker.
  • The native copy (src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs) now matches the walker: source modes on directories it creates, the same lstat, copyfile and symlink errors, no trailing separator on a resolved link target, lstat for DT_UNKNOWN entries, ENOENT for an empty destination.
  • Verified: test/js/node/fs/cp.test.ts (bun 1.4.2 fails 6 new tests), the 77 ported test-fs-cp-* node tests, fs.test.ts.

Background

  • The native copy (NewAsyncCpTask) walks the source on one thread and schedules one thread pool task per file. macOS first tries one clonefile() of the whole tree.
  • The walker ports node's lib/internal/fs/cp/cp.js: its ERR_FS_CP_* errors, merge rules and symlink rules. The native copy has none of these, so it runs only when none can apply.
  • DT_UNKNOWN: FUSE, NFS and some bind mounts report no entry type in readdir. The caller must lstat the entry.
Notes

Numbers: 256 files of 4 KB in 16 directories, tmpfs, release builds, Linux x64, mean of 80 copies in ms. The host was quiet for this table. Under load all three columns grow, and the ratio stays.

v1.3.14 v1.4.0 this PR
fs.promises.cp 1.35 21.9 1.72
fs.promises.cp, tree contains a relative symlink 1.63 24.0 2.13
fs.promises.cp, destination is an empty directory 1.48 21.5 2.06
fs.cpSync 3.36 7.31 3.17
fs.promises.cp with filter: () => true (always the walker) 25.3 25.9 26.0

96 files of 1 KB in 12 directories, median of 25, as promises / callback / sync. I measured this table before the last commit (the parallel scan), which makes the async columns of this PR a little faster.

option set v1.3.14 v1.4.0 this PR
default 0.45 / 0.47 / 1.19 10.2 / 10.7 / 2.8 1.10 / 1.16 / 1.31
force: false 0.49 / 0.49 / 1.22 8.9 / 9.1 / 2.9 1.60 / 1.57 / 1.29
errorOnExist + force: false 0.49 / 0.54 / 1.32 9.8 / 9.7 / 2.8 1.04 / 1.42 / 1.28
mode: COPYFILE_FICLONE 0.63 / 0.48 / 1.21 9.0 / 10.4 / 2.8 1.31 / 1.20 / 1.28
destination is an empty directory 0.57 / 0.63 / 1.27 10.5 / 10.1 / 2.9 1.17 / 1.42 / 1.25
tree with one symlink 0.68 / 0.75 / 1.42 10.4 / 11.0 / 4.3 1.13 / 1.19 / 1.24
filter: () => true 9.5 / 9.3 / 3.1 9.7 / 8.8 / 2.7 8.8 / 9.3 / 2.6

A copy of bun's src/ (5.3k entries, 84 MB, overlayfs): 50 ms, 710 ms, 118 ms (before the parallel scan).

Open PRs that touch the same code:

The "same result" claim is against Bun's walker, which is a port of node's JS cp. node's own cpSync is native code and differs from its JS cp in a few places (it does not set directory modes, and it resolves a link to a link). Bun's cpSync follows the JS rules there, before and after this PR.

What stays on the walker: a tree deeper than 64 levels (the native copy recurses once per level on a 4 MB pool thread, and a 600-level tree overflowed it), a single file onto an existing file unless the options are the defaults (as on main), a destination that exists and is not empty, filter, dereference, preserveTimestamps, verbatimSymlinks, COPYFILE_FICLONE_FORCE, errorOnExist without force onto an existing directory, special files, symlinks on macOS, every tree on Windows. The option cases took the walker in v1.3.14 too. The merge into a destination that is not empty and the two platform cases did not.

The rest of the gap to v1.3.14 is the node validation (checkPaths, checkParentPaths) and the JS scan of the source tree. The scan reads one level of the tree at a time, 64 directories in parallel: 0.10 ms instead of 0.35 ms on the benchmark tree, 5 ms instead of 19 ms on bun's src/ (564 directories). A native scan would remove most of the rest. It needs a way for the native task to report "not eligible", so it is not part of this PR.

Options: I ran 30 combinations of option set (force: false, errorOnExist with and without force, COPYFILE_EXCL, COPYFILE_FICLONE, both) and destination (missing, empty directory, directory to merge into, missing file, existing file) through fs.promises.cp and fs.cpSync. The results and error codes are the same as with the walker in bun 1.4.2, and fs.promises.cp matches node v26.3.0. The native copy receives errorOnExist && !force, because node ignores errorOnExist when force is set.

Symlinks: I copied a tree with 17 kinds of link (relative, absolute, dangling, ., .., ./x, a//b, a/../b, trailing /, link to a link, links in subdirectories) with four spellings of the source path. The native copy, the walker and node v26.3.0 fs.promises.cp give the same targets, after the trailing separator fix. node's cpSync is native code and resolves two of these differently from its own fs.promises.cp (a link to a link, and an absolute target that is not normalized). Bun's cpSync follows the JS rules there, before and after this PR.

Errors: as a user that is not root, an unreadable file (alone or in a tree) rejects with EACCES, syscall: "copyfile", path and dest, the same as the walker and node. Before the change the native copy reported syscall: "open". A file in a directory without search permission rejects with the lstat error, as node does. A failed symlink reports the target as path and the link as dest, like fs.symlink.

macOS: when clonefile() of a tree fails with EACCES or EPERM, the copy now goes entry by entry in the async copy too. The sync copy already did that when force was set. I could not run this on macOS.

The chmod of a created directory is best effort, like the fchmod of a copied file, because exFAT and some network mounts refuse it.

Tests: the new recursive cp takes the JS walker only when the native copy can differ from node block counts the walker's copyFile calls in a fresh process, for cpSync, fs.cp with a callback and fs.promises.cp. It is the part that fails without the change. With the JS change and without the Rust change, 6 of the other new tests and the existing mode test fail. The test for an unreadable file needs a user that is not root. The FUSE test (glob-on-fuse.test.ts) needs /dev/fuse, so I could not run it in my container. It copies a FUSE tree with a subdirectory, which fails without the DT_UNKNOWN change because the directory is copied as a file.

The shell cp builtin shares NewAsyncCpTask. It does not get the mode change or the error change (IS_SHELL).

A second new test copies one tree with the default options and with a filter (always the walker) and compares types, modes, contents and link targets of the two results.

bench/fs-cp/cp.mjs gets two more cases: an empty destination, and a filter.


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/node/fs/cp.test.ts, test/cli/run/glob-on-fuse.test.ts

Since #31830 every recursive fs.cp, fs.cpSync and fs.promises.cp goes
through the node-ported JS walker. #32503 restored the native copy on
macOS only. The walker copies one entry at a time and awaits several
thread pool round trips for each, so fs.promises.cp of a 256-file tree
went from 1.4 ms (v1.3.14) to 22 ms (v1.4.0) on Linux.

The native copy is used again on every platform except Windows when the
options are the defaults, the destination is missing or an empty
directory, and a scan of the source finds only entries the native copy
handles like node: regular files and directories, and on Linux also
symlinks. Windows keeps the walker because the native copy there fails
on paths longer than MAX_PATH.

The native copy now matches the walker in the places it did not:
- a directory it creates gets the source directory's mode, after its
  entries are copied
- a relative symlink target that ends in a separator resolves without it
- a file copy that fails reports `copyfile 'src' -> 'dest'`
- entries with d_type DT_UNKNOWN (FUSE, NFS, bind mounts) are classified
  with lstat, so a directory is not copied as a file
`force: false`, `errorOnExist` and `mode` took the native copy in
v1.3.14 and always take the walker since #31830. `force` and
`errorOnExist` only matter for an entry that exists at the destination,
and the native copy ignores `mode`, which changes the result only for
COPYFILE_FICLONE_FORCE.

The native copy is now also used with these options when they cannot
matter: the destination is missing, or it is an empty directory and
`errorOnExist` is not set without `force` (node rejects an existing
destination directory then). A single file onto an existing file still
needs `force`. COPYFILE_FICLONE_FORCE keeps the walker.

The test covers fs.cp with a callback next to cpSync and promises.cp,
and pins the two option sets that must stay on the walker.
…rallel

The scan that decides if fs.promises.cp can take the native copy awaited
one readdir per directory. On bun's src/ (564 directories) that is 19 ms,
against 5 ms when a level is read in parallel. On the 16-directory
benchmark tree it is 0.35 ms against 0.10 ms.
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fs.cp and fs.cpSync now use native copying for more supported cases. Recursive fallback copying preserves directory modes and normalizes errors. Tests cover platform behavior, symlinks, destination handling, deep trees, and FUSE filesystems.

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Native fs.cp implementation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Native eligibility and tree scanning
src/js/internal/fs/cp-sync.ts, src/js/internal/fs/cp.ts
Native copying now checks platform capabilities, options, destination state, entry types, symlinks, and tree depth.
Recursive walker semantics
src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs, src/runtime/node/types.rs
Recursive copying tracks created directories, restores source modes, resolves unknown entry types, normalizes errors, and updates symlink and clonefile handling.
Public API fast-path routing
src/js/node/fs.ts, src/js/node/fs.promises.ts
The copy APIs use the native path when supported and preserve force precedence over errorOnExist.
Copy validation and benchmarks
test/js/node/fs/cp.test.ts, test/cli/run/*, bench/fs-cp/cp.mjs
Tests and benchmarks cover nested copies, symlinks, modes, errors, destination states, routing decisions, and platform behavior.

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How I reproduced it: I ran bench/fs-cp/cp.mjs with the release binaries of v1.3.14 and v1.4.0 on Linux x64 (TMPDIR=/dev/shm bun cp.mjs). fs.promises.cp of the 256-file tree takes about 2 ms on v1.3.14 and 30 to 35 ms on v1.4.0 and main. The same copy with filter: () => true takes about 30 ms on all three, so the walker did not get slower. The route changed.

This PR: #42906

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✅ @robobun, your commit 66169ba8d8ba8335cee8ea07e79e416fddc4a7f7 passed in Build #116559! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 42906

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2 verified lower-impact observations (convention, logging or cleanup points) were not posted.

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

  • 🔴 src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs — macOS users calling fs.cp or fs.promises.cp with force: false on a tree whose clonefile() fails with EACCES, EPERM or EINVAL now get an immediate clonefile error with no files copied, where the base branch's walker copied the tree file by file. node_fs.rs:2005-2009 finishes the task on those errnos and never falls back to the per-file loop, even when force is set, unlike the sync twin at 8137. Fix: the async directory copy must fall back to the per-file path on the same errnos the sync path does, and the force:false case must fall back too; a fix at 8137 alone leaves this site. [also at: src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs:8143 - macOS users calling fs.cpSync with force: false on a tree whose clonefile() fails with EACCES or EPERM now get a clonefile error where the base branch copied the tree file by file.]

    Extended reasoning...

    The dismissing finder treated this as covered by the sync clonefile finding at 8143 and as pre-existing for default options.
    The fix for 8143 is inside cp_sync_inner; cp_async_directory has its own match at 2004 that returns false on EACCES/EPERM/EINVAL/EROFS/ENAMETOOLONG with no force check at all, so that fix does not reach fs.cp or fs.promises.cp.
    New population: on the base, fs.promises.cp with force:false went to the walker (old gate required force); now cp.ts:197 routes it native on darwin when the tree has only files and dirs.
    Steps: fs.promises.cp(src, dest, { recursive: true, force: false }) on APFS; clonefile(2) returns EACCES or EPERM (e.g. a source dir the caller cannot read, an SIP-protected or sandboxed dest) or EINVAL; 2008 sets the result to the clonefile error with path = src root and no dest; the promise rejects before any file is written.
    Base: walker copies every readable file and reports copyfile 'src' -> 'dest' for the failing entry, matching node.
    Remedy: mirror 8137's force fallback in cp_async_directory and extend both sites to fall…

    Verification: normal — regression for macOS callers of fs.cp / fs.promises.cp with force: false (also errorOnExist: true or a mode value, which the old JS gate likewise excluded) on a directory tree whose clonefile() fails with EACCES/EPERM/EINVAL/EROFS/ENAMETOOLONG but whose files are individually copyable (e.g. a tree the caller does not own, which APFS directory cloning refuses); such callers…

  • 🟡 src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs — pre-existing: a caller copying a single unreadable file with fs.cp/fs.cpSync still gets syscall: "open" and no dest, while node (and the walker) report copyfile 'src' -> 'dest'. The new cp_entry_error rewrite is applied only to tree entries; the non-directory root branches of cp_sync_inner (node_fs.rs:8113 return r) and the async task (node_fs.rs:1941) return the raw copy_single_file_sync error. Fix: route every native per-file failure, root or tree entry, sync and async, through cp_entry_error so all four sites report the same copyfile error with path and dest.

    Extended reasoning...

    The PR description says the native copy now reports copyfile 'src' -> 'dest' errors like the walker. That holds only for entries found while scanning a directory. fs.cpSync("secret.txt", "out.txt") with secret.txt mode 0o000 as a non-root user: fs.ts cpSync calls nativeHonorsOptions (true by default) then tryNativeFastPathSync, which returns ok because srcStat.isFile() and dest is missing. The native fs.cpSync enters cp_sync_inner; the !ISDIR branch calls copy_single_file_sync and returns r unchanged at node_fs.rs:8113. On Linux copy_single_file_sync fails at Syscall::open(src, RDONLY|NOFOLLOW) (node_fs.rs:8506) and returns that error as is: syscall open, path src, no dest. The async twin does the same at node_fs.rs:1919-1941 (this.finish_concurrently(r)). Node's walker calls copyFile and throws EACCES with syscall "copyfile", path and dest. The base branch already took the native path for this case, so this is pre-existing, but it is the sibling site of the fix this PR adds in cp_entry_error and the tree-entry arms at node_fs.rs:1512-1516 and 8242-8247.

    Verification: nit (pre-existing on the default-options route; a small widening for option sets the new gate newly sends native). Triggering condition: fs.cpSync/fs.cp/fs.promises.cp of a single regular file that cannot be opened for reading (e.g. mode 0o000 as a non-root user) to a missing dest. Mechanism verified in /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs: - Sync root branch, lines 8096-8113: when…

  • 🟣 src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs — Linux users on btrfs/XFS who copy a file onto an existing larger file get a destination that still ends with the old file's bytes, or is entirely the old file when the source is empty. node_fs.rs:8542-8548 opens dest without O_TRUNC, calls FICLONE and returns before the ftruncate guard at 8555. The JS gate at cp.ts:208 and cp-sync.ts:345 sends every force + existing-file copy here, and this PR adds mode: COPYFILE_FICLONE requests to that population. Fix: truncate dest before or after a successful clone on every clone site (8547, the same block in copy_file at node_fs.rs:5064, and the FICLONE_FORCE arm at 5046), matching node, which unlinks dest first.

    Extended reasoning...

    The kernel FICLONE ioctl with length 0 clones up to the source EOF and only extends the destination's i_size; it never shrinks it (btrfs clone_finish_inode_update, xfs_reflink_update_dest).
    With an empty source, generic_remap_file_range_prep returns 0 immediately and the ioctl reports success without touching dest.
    So fs.cpSync('empty.txt', 'existing.txt') on btrfs returns success and existing.txt keeps its old content.
    A 4096-byte source over an 8192-byte dest leaves bytes 4096-8191 of the old file in place; a non-block-aligned source gets EINVAL and falls back to copy_file_range plus ftruncate, so only aligned sizes and empty sources corrupt.
    Trigger: default options (force true), dest is an existing regular file; cp.ts:208 / cp-sync.ts:345 route this to native; copy_single_file_sync opens dest with O_CREAT|O_WRONLY (8532), FICLONE succeeds at 8543, returns at 8547 before the truncate guard at 8555 is armed.
    The dismissing finder called it pre-existing; the base did take native for force+file, but the PR's description claims results match node for the 'existing file'…

    Verification: pre-existing. Trigger: on Linux with a filesystem that accepts FICLONE (btrfs, XFS with reflink), fs.cpSync/fs.cp/fs.promises.cp of a regular file onto an existing regular file that is larger than the source (or any existing file when the source is empty), with force (the default). Mechanism verified in /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs copy_single_file_sync, Linux arm: line…

  • 🟣 src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs — pre-existing, class left incomplete: a caller copying one unreadable file with fs.cpSync / fs.cp / fs.promises.cp still gets syscall: "open" and no dest, while node and the JS walker report copyfile with path and dest. The new cp_entry_error rewrite is applied only to entries inside a tree; the top-level single-file branches at node_fs.rs:8112 (return r) and node_fs.rs:1940 (this.finish_concurrently(r)) return the raw open/fstat error. Fix: route both single-file sites through cp_entry_error (skipping it when IS_SHELL, as the subtask does) so every non-link failure of the native copy reports copyfile with path and dest, covering the 2 sites. The widened gate now sends force: false, errorOnExist and mode single-file copies down this path too.

    Extended reasoning...

    The walker copies a single file with fs.copyFile, and NodeFS::copy_file (node_fs.rs:4778) rewrites every failure into syscall copyfile with path and dest, matching node. The native single-file path does not. On Linux copy_single_file_sync opens the source with Syscall::open (node_fs.rs:8505); on EACCES it returns the open error with only the source path (return Err(err) at node_fs.rs:8513). cp_sync's non-directory branch returns that error unchanged at node_fs.rs:8112. The async run's non-directory branch passes it to finish_concurrently unchanged at node_fs.rs:1940. Only CpSingleTask (node_fs.rs:1516) and the cp_sync_inner loop (node_fs.rs:8246) call cp_entry_error. Trigger: as a non-root user, chmod a file to 0o000 and call fs.cpSync(file, dest) or await fs.promises.cp(file, dest) with default options (or with force: false, errorOnExist, or mode, which the base sent to the walker and this PR now sends native). Result: an error with syscall "open", no dest property; node gives syscall "copyfile", path and dest. The base branch behaves the same for default options; this PR…

    Verification: pre-existing (class left incomplete by this PR). Trigger: fs.cpSync / fs.cp / fs.promises.cp on a single regular file that cannot be opened (e.g. EACCES as a non-root user) with default options, which the JS gate routes to the native copy (return { ok: srcStat.isFile() && (!destStat || (opts.force && destStat.isFile())), checked } in src/js/internal/fs/cp-sync.ts / cp.ts; the base had the same…

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- A tree deeper than 64 levels takes the walker. The native copy recurses
  once per directory level with a readdir buffer in each frame, and a
  600-level tree overflowed the 4 MB pool thread stack.
- A single file onto an existing file takes the native copy only with the
  default options, as before. node unlinks the destination first and the
  native copy overwrites it in place.
- macOS: when clonefile() of a tree fails with EACCES or EPERM, the copy
  goes entry by entry. The sync copy already did that with `force`. The
  async copy did not, and `force: false` now reaches both.
- A failed copy of a single file reports `copyfile 'src' -> 'dest'` like a
  tree entry. An entry that cannot be reached reports the lstat error, as
  node does. A failed symlink reports the target and the link, like
  fs.symlink.
- The mode of a created directory is best effort, like the mode of a
  copied file: exFAT and some network mounts refuse chmod.
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🟡 Minor · Report creation only after mkdir_os_path succeeds.

src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs:5769
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Report creation only after mkdir_os_path succeeds.

If another process creates final_ after the initial ENOENT, the final call can return EEXIST. The unconditional callback still records the destination as created because CpDestDirCreated checks only the path length. A successful fs.cp can then queue the source mode and later call chmod on that directory.

Move ctx.on_create_dir(final_) into the Ok(_) arm.

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         match mkdir_os_path(final_) {
             Err(err) => match err.get_errno() {
                 E::EEXIST => {}
                 _ => {
                     return Err(err.with_path(Self::os_path_into_buf(
                         unsafe { &mut *sync_error_buf_ptr },
                         without_nt_prefix(&path[..]),
                     )));
                 }
             },
-            Ok(_) => {}
+            Ok(_) => ctx.on_create_dir(final_),
         }

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I re-reviewed the latest push (c181818 plus the merge of main) and found no new bugs; the points from my earlier review are addressed in the code, but since this widens a native fast path that runs on the thread pool for every Linux fs.cp tree copy, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • The kNativeMaxDepth bail-out, the best-effort cp_chmod_created_dir, cp_create_symlink's path/dest shape, and cp_entry_error's lstat-first check against the earlier findings; each has a test in test/js/node/fs/cp.test.ts.
  • created_dirs: pushed under Guarded from the scan thread, drained only by the last on_subtask_done on the success path, so no chmod races a subtask still writing into the directory.
  • cp_entry_error on a pool thread uses the task-local NodeFS and Box<[u8]> copies of the paths, so the reused sync_error_buf is not aliased; S::IWUSR/kind_from_mode resolve on all targets.
  • The single-file gate is narrowed back to default options, so errorOnExist/mode callers onto an existing file keep the walker.
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Overview

The PR replaces the darwin-only gate for the native recursive fs.cp with a set of predicates (nativeHonorsOptions, nativeCopiesTrees, nativeResolvesSymlinks, kNativeMaxDepth) shared by cpSync, callback cp, and fs.promises.cp, and makes the Rust copy (src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs) reproduce the walker's observable results: source modes on created directories (sync at the end of cp_sync_inner, async via a Guarded<Vec<...>> drained deepest-first by the last on_subtask_done), copyfile 'src' -> 'dest' errors via cp_entry_error, path/dest on symlink failures, no trailing separator on resolved link targets, and an lstatat fallback for DT_UNKNOWN entries. The follow-up commit since my prior review adds the depth bail-out, makes the directory chmod best-effort, narrows the single-file existing-dest case to default options, and fixes the syscall reported for entries in an unsearchable directory.

Security risks

None specific to this change. The paths come from validated fs arguments, the native copy uses O_NOFOLLOW/CLONE_NOFOLLOW as before, and symlinks are recreated rather than dereferenced. The scan reads the source tree before the copy, so the usual TOCTOU window between scan and copy exists, but it did on the base branch for the darwin path too and the outcome is a walker-visible difference, not an escape.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate to high. Each of the three earlier inline findings was verified addressed by reading the new code rather than the description: nativeCanCopyTree(Sync) returns false past depth 64 and the test spawns a 70-deep tree; cp_chmod_created_dir discards the chmod result on both platforms; cp_create_symlink applies with_path_dest; cp_entry_error returns the lstat error first and leaves readlink/symlink errors untouched. The threading of created_dirs is sound (mutex-guarded pushes from the scan thread, one drain after subtask_count hits zero, and only on the success branch). I also checked that S::IWUSR and kind_from_mode are defined cross-platform in bun_core, and that the IS_SHELL branches leave the shell cp builtin's error and mode behaviour unchanged. What I could not do is run the Linux non-root permission tests or the FUSE test in this environment, and I did not measure the benchmark claims.

Other factors

The multi-agent hunt ran dry with no findings on this push. The tests cover the routing matrix across all three entry points in a fresh subprocess, the mode and error-shape cases, and the >64-directory scan batch. The change still removes the EACCES/EPERM abort after clonefile and deletes mkdir_recursive_os_path, and it puts every default-option Linux tree copy on a code path that previously only ran on macOS, so a maintainer familiar with NewAsyncCpTask should confirm the design choices (depth constant, best-effort chmod, the Windows exclusion) before merge.

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  • Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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Replies to the review findings that have no thread (pushed in c181818 and 9d7ed2e):

  • Deep trees: confirmed. A 600-level tree dumped core in a release build (400 levels in a debug build), because the native copy recurses once per level on a 4 MB pool thread. The source scan now returns false past 64 levels, so deeper trees take the walker. The routing test has a 70-level case.
  • macOS, clonefile() fails with EACCES or EPERM: the async copy now falls back to the entry-by-entry copy, as the sync copy already did, and neither needs force any more. I could not run this on macOS. cargo check passes for aarch64-apple-darwin.
  • Error shapes: a single file that cannot be copied now reports copyfile 'src' -> 'dest' like a tree entry (all four native sites). An entry that cannot be reached reports the lstat error first, like node. A failed symlink reports the target as path and the link as dest, like fs.symlink. Tests for the first two run as a user that is not root.
  • Directory chmod on volumes that refuse it: now best effort, like the fchmod of a copied file.
  • Single file onto an existing file: the native copy is taken only with the default options again, as on main. node:fs: make cp/cpSync replace an existing destination file like node #38226 covers the unlink-first behaviour.
  • FICLONE onto a larger existing file (stale tail): this is also in fs.copyFile on main and needs a reflink filesystem to reproduce. It is not part of this PR. It is tracked separately.
  • ctx.on_create_dir(final_) after EEXIST (CodeRabbit): I left mkdir_recursive_os_path_impl as it is. For a destination with a trailing separator whose parent is missing, the loop creates the directory under the name without the separator, and the final mkdir then reports EEXIST. The callback after it is what tells CpDestDirCreated (and the shell's mkdir -v) that the directory was created. The remaining window is a concurrent mkdir of the same path between two calls, and its effect is one chmod to the source mode.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

One verified lower-impact observation (a convention, logging or cleanup point) was not posted.

`os_path` returned `ZStr::EMPTY` for an empty path without writing the
buffer, and the native tree copy appends entry names to that buffer.
`fs.promises.cp(dir, "")` then copied to whatever the buffer held, for
example `/<entry>`. The walker rejects the same call with ENOENT from
mkdir(""), as node does. Linux takes the native copy again, so it needs
the fix that #37949 has for macOS: the same change to `os_path`, and the
same test.

Also adds a test that copies one tree with the default options and with a
`filter` (always the walker) and compares the two results.
@robobun robobun changed the title fs.cp: take the native recursive copy again when the result matches node fs.cp: take the native recursive copy again when it gives the walker's result Sep 16, 2026

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Code review found no issues

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