bun test: scan a directory whose listing the resolver already cached

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Problem

• bun test ./sub ./ runs only the tests below ./sub. With a test root that is a parent of the cwd (bun test ../../, or bunfig [test] root), the first-level subtree that holds the cwd is skipped. From packages/app that is all of packages/.
• The run exits 0 with fewer files and no message. If the skipped files are the only ones, it exits 1 with No tests found!. No user reported it. A read of the scanner found it.
• On a cache hit the resolver returns the listing and does not call the scanner's iterator. Scanner::scan (src/runtime/cli/test/Scanner.rs:165) walked such a listing only for the root, and only if !self.has_iterated. Nothing resets that flag.

Fix

• read_dir_with_name resets has_iterated before each read. If the resolver did not call the iterator, it walks the returned listing. The walk is the old block from scan, moved as is.
• Correct because each read passes every entry to next exactly once. The existing entry.abs_path check still keeps bun test ./ ./sub from running a file twice.
• Verified: test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts (six new cases, 1.4.3 fails five, Linux and Windows). Also the other discovery suites in test/cli/test.
• Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 3 addressed.

Background

• test_command.rs calls scanner.scan(path) once per path argument, or once for the test root.
• The scanner reads each directory through the resolver. The resolver calls Scanner::next per entry while it reads the directory from disk, then caches the listing.
• The cwd and all its parents are cached before the scanner runs: run_env_loader calls read_dir_info(cwd).

Notes

Repro on 1.4.3-canary.1+09bb54630 (Linux x64). The Windows x64 canary behaves the same.

$ mkdir -p r/sub r/other && cd r
$ echo 'import { test } from "bun:test"; test("root", () => {});' > root.test.ts
$ echo 'import { test } from "bun:test"; test("a", () => {});' > sub/a.test.ts
$ echo 'import { test } from "bun:test"; test("o", () => {});' > other/o.test.ts
$ bun test ./sub ./        # Ran 1 test across 1 file.   (expected 3)
$ bun test ./ ./sub        # Ran 3 tests across 3 files.
$ cd sub && bun test ../   # Ran 2 tests across 2 files. sub/a.test.ts does not run

With this change all three commands run 3 tests across 3 files.

Why a parent root loses a whole subtree: the root itself is cached, and the old fallback walks it. The child directory on the path to the cwd is cached too, so the resolver does not call the iterator for it, and the old code had no fallback below the root. Its files and its subdirectories are never seen. The other children of the root are read from disk and scan normally.

The exit code changes in one shape: when the skipped files are the only test files, the run exited 1 and now exits with the result of those tests. The message was No tests found! for the bunfig root and The following filters did not match any test files for a path argument. The two finds a test that is only below the cwd cases cover it.

The same logic was in the Zig scanner (if (!this.has_iterated) around the root only), so this is not a regression from the Rust port. The tests are in the existing scanner block for that reason.

Cost: a directory that two path arguments both cover is opened a second time and walked from the cached listing. No directory is read from disk twice. search_count (printed only by the "filters did not match" message) counts those entries twice.

Not changed here: bun test ./sub/a.test.ts ./sub lists sub/a.test.ts twice ("Ran 1 test across 2 files"). A file argument is added without an Entry, so the abs_path check cannot see it. That happens with and without this change.

Related open PRs that touch Scanner.rs: #36636 removes has_iterated as part of a sort-order change and waits on a design question. #41465, #42810 and #40242 keep the root-only block. The code of the moved block is unchanged (only its comments are shorter), so a rebase of those is mechanical.

Two limits of the cached walk are older than this PR and stay as they are. Alias spellings of one directory (./Nested for nested on a case-insensitive filesystem, or a symlink) list its files twice: main does that for bun test ./ ./Nested, and now ./Nested ./ does the same. #41465 adds a directory identity check that covers it. On a case-sensitive filesystem, two siblings whose names differ only in case share one slot in the resolver's listing, so a cached walk sees one of them: main has that for the cwd, and #38011 fixes the listing.

The self-review concerns were about this text and the tests: state that no user report exists, state the real extent of the skipped subtree, and state the exit-1 outcome and test it.

Suites run with the debug build: test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts, pass-with-no-tests.test.ts, path-ignore-patterns.test.ts, test-shard.test.ts, test-changed.test.ts, concurrent-test-glob.test.ts, test/regression/issue/26851.test.ts. The six new cases also pass on a Windows x64 debug build, and five of them fail on the Windows canary.

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Status

Reproduced on 1.4.3-canary.1 (Linux x64 and Windows x64):

mkdir -p r/sub r/other && cd r
echo 'import { test } from "bun:test"; test("root", () => {});' > root.test.ts
echo 'import { test } from "bun:test"; test("a", () => {});' > sub/a.test.ts
echo 'import { test } from "bun:test"; test("o", () => {});' > other/o.test.ts
bun test ./sub ./        # Ran 1 test across 1 file. Expected 3.
cd sub && bun test ../   # Ran 2 tests across 2 files. Expected 3.

USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts -t "path arguments|parent of the cwd" fails five of the six new cases. bun bd test with this branch passes all six.

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The scanner now processes cached directory listings within read_dir_with_name. New tests verify deterministic discovery for overlapping paths and parent-directory roots, including configured bunfig test roots.

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Scanner discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cached directory processing src/runtime/cli/test/Scanner.rs	read_dir_with_name resets iteration state, sorts cached entries by lowercased base name, and passes them through next. Root-specific cached-listing handling was removed from scan.
Scanner discovery tests test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts	Added helpers and tests for overlapping path arguments and parent-directory discovery. Tests assert complete, non-duplicated discovery and successful exit codes.

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