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Problem

  • test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts takes 37 s on debian 13 x64-asan (build #118779) and 16 to 24 s on the Windows lanes. With a debug build it takes 308 s, and six tests hit their 30 s timeout.
  • Six tests compare Bun.Glob with fast-glob over all of test/. fast-glob takes over 90% of the file's time. It reads every directory below a **, hidden ones included, so each of its six walks reads test/node_modules/.bun (32,704 directories).

Fix

  • ignore: ["**/.*/**"] prunes hidden directories from the fast-glob walk (4,637 directories). The entries are the same, because dot: false cannot match inside a hidden directory.
  • fast-glob walks once per pattern. The absolute tests expect the same entries under the cwd, which is how fast-glob builds absolute paths.
  • Assertions: only files <pattern> ran fast-glob against the snapshot and never called Bun.Glob. Two tests asserted nothing. Error cases and length checks now expect exact values.
  • Verified: CI build #118908 runs the file in 5.2 s on debian 13 x64-asan and in 2.3 to 2.9 s on the Windows lanes. bun bd test test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts passes in 47 to 54 s (up to 99 s on a loaded host). Same 195 tests and 136 snapshots.

Background

  • fast-glob is the reference these tests compare against. It is JavaScript, so ASAN and debug builds slow it much more than the native scanner.
  • test/node_modules/.bun is the package store of the isolated install layout, and test/node_modules/<name> is a symlink into it. Both scanners still follow those symlinks.
  • dot: false is the default in both: a wildcard does not match a name that starts with ..
Notes

CI, build #118908 against build #118779. debian 13 x64-asan 37.4 s to 5.2 s, windows 11 aarch64 23.9 s to 2.9 s, windows 2019 x64 15.5 s to 2.3 s, ubuntu x64 6.7 s to 1.3 s, darwin x64 6.2 s to 1.9 s, debian x64 6.2 s to 1.2 s, debian aarch64 5.9 s to 1.2 s, alpine x64 5.6 s to 1.0 s, ubuntu aarch64 5.1 s to 1.2 s, alpine aarch64 5.0 s to 0.9 s, darwin aarch64 4.3 s to 2.4 s. The file passes on every lane.

Where the time went. Release build on Linux, before the change: the six reference tests take 609 to 885 ms each (4.27 s of 4.67 s), the two GC tests 80 ms each, everything else under 0.2 s together. One fg.glob("**/*.js") over test/ costs 575 to 834 ms, the same Bun.Glob scan 70 to 114 ms. In the debug build one fast-glob walk costs 61 to 99 s and one Bun.Glob scan 1.4 to 1.8 s, so every reference test ran into the 30 s timeout. fast-glob kept the event loop busy after each timeout, which made the small async tests after it take 1 to 9 s each.

Why fast-glob is slow here. A wrapper around fs.readdirSync and fs.statSync counted 32,704 readdir and 3,874 stat calls for one walk. fast-glob's deep filter returns "read it" for every directory once a pattern has reached its globstar (PartialMatcher.match), and the dot option is applied to entries only. Bun.Glob reports 44,545 entries for ** in the same tree. With the ignore pattern fast-glob makes 4,637 readdir and 141 stat calls.

The pruned walk returns the same entries. Checked for all three patterns, relative and absolute, against the walk without ignore: identical (10,793, 17,346 and 10,843 entries). Checked on Linux that cwd + "/" + entry equals fast-glob's absolute: true output for every entry. fast-glob builds that output with path.resolve(cwd, entry) and then converts backslashes to forward slashes.

After the change. Release build on Linux: 1.0 to 1.4 s. Debug build: 47.4 s, 49.7 s and 54.2 s. Two later runs took 66.8 s and 99.2 s while the host had a load average of 75 to 115. In the slowest run the first test of a pattern took 27.9 s of its 30 s timeout. The first test of each pattern pays for the fast-glob walk (10 to 13 s in the debug build), the other tests of that pattern take 1.7 to 2.8 s. On Windows Server 2019 x64 with a release build: 6.93 s before, 1.61 s after, 192 pass and 3 skip both times. expect() calls: 78,188 before, 236 after.

Assertion changes.

  • only files fixtures/*, only files fixtures/** and only files fixtures/**/* ran fg.globSync against the snapshot since Fix absolute patterns with glob #10121. The Bun.Glob call was commented out. They now scan with Bun.Glob like their neighbours. The snapshots did not change.
  • glob not freed before matching done (two tests) now compares the scan result with the reference.
  • doesn't exist, file pattern logged the result. It now expects [].
  • The reference tests also expect the reference to contain one known entry (fast-glob's entry point, or this file), so they cannot pass on two empty results.
  • bad options: the calls that must not throw now expect ["package.json"] from process.cwd(), and the calls that must throw expect the message.
  • error broken symlinks and error non-existent cwd expect code: "ENOENT" and the path.
  • glob.scan(string) expects ["file.md"]. patterns with many components expects the path, not a length of 1.
  • The spawned test checks that stderr is empty before it parses stdout, so a crash shows its message.
  • The same test returned early when it could not create a symlink (EPERM or EACCES), so it was reported as passed with no assertion. It now uses the canCreateDirSymlink probe of the symlink describe block and is reported as skipped. The probe moved above its first use.

Sorting. The comparison uses sets because the default sort of 17,346 paths takes 4 to 6 s in the debug build. The release build sorts them in about 10 ms. The comparison reports missing entries, unexpected entries and duplicates, and cuts each list at 20 paths so that a wholesale mismatch stays readable.

Mutation checks. With dot: true added to the Bun.Glob call the reference tests fail and list the unexpected .bun paths. With onlyFiles: false in the only files <pattern> tests all three fail. Before this change nothing in Bun.Glob could make those three fail.

What did not change. The 30 s timeout on the eight tests that scan all of test/ stays: the debug build needs 13 s for the slowest one. The tests stay sequential: the fast-glob walks are bound by the JS thread (two concurrent walks took 1.06 to 1.35 s, two sequential ones 1.24 to 1.30 s), and concurrent tests would each wait for all walks. One fast-glob call per pattern stays, so the reference for each pattern comes from fast-glob's own matcher.

Error messages. #41930 changes two messages that bad options now checks ("expected first argument to be an object", "invalid cwd, not a string"). The test matches the part that is the same before and after #41930. oversized cwd throws instead of crashing is unchanged because #41930 replaces its message.

Open PRs that touch this file. #32599, #32876, #33181, #34200, #34989, #40346, #41558, #41930, #41985 and #43517 each merge with this branch without a conflict in scan.test.ts (three-way merge of the file against each PR head).


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/glob/scan.test.ts

The six tests that compare Bun.Glob with fast-glob over all of test/
take more than 90% of the file's run time, and nearly all of it is
fast-glob. fast-glob reads every directory below a `**`, hidden ones
included, so each of its six walks reads all of test/node_modules/.bun
(32,704 directories here) although `dot: false` can never match there.

- Prune hidden directories from the fast-glob walk with `ignore`. The
  result is the same, the walk reads 4,637 directories.
- Walk once per pattern. The absolute tests expect the same entries
  under the cwd, which is how fast-glob builds absolute paths.
- Compare through sets with one expect() instead of one per path.

Assertions:
- "only files <pattern>" ran fast-glob against the snapshot and never
  called Bun.Glob. It now scans with Bun.Glob.
- "glob not freed before matching done" asserted nothing. It now
  compares the scan result with the reference.
- "doesn't exist, file pattern" only logged the result. It now expects [].
- Error cases expect the error code and message, not only "defined".
- Length checks became exact values.
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Status: ready for review. The change touches only test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts.

How to reproduce the numbers (Linux x64, test/node_modules installed):

  • Debug build: bun bd test test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts. On main it takes 308 s and six tests hit their 30 s timeout. On this branch it takes 47 to 54 s on a quiet host (up to 99 s on a loaded host) and all tests pass.
  • Release build: USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts. 4.7 s on main, 1.2 s on this branch.
  • Windows Server 2019 x64, release build: 6.9 s on main, 1.6 s on this branch.

In CI (build #118908 against build #118779) the file takes 5.2 s on debian 13 x64-asan (before: 37.4 s), 2.9 s on windows 11 aarch64 (before: 23.9 s) and 2.3 s on windows 2019 x64 (before: 15.5 s). It passes on every lane.

The red jobs on this PR are test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts (debian 13 x64-asan) and test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts (alpine aarch64). Both tests also fail on main, and this PR does not touch them.

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The glob scan tests now use shared fast-glob comparisons, exact result and error assertions, stronger deep-pattern checks, and capability-based symlink test handling.

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Glob scan test strengthening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reference result comparisons
test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts
Shared reference scans compare complete unordered result sets, detect duplicates, prune hidden directories, and cover recursive and absolute-path cases.
Option and error validation
test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts
Tests verify default cwd behavior, exact error messages, ENOENT codes, offending paths, and empty results.
Exact path and symlink assertions
test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts
Deep patterns and string scans require exact paths. The non-absolute Bun scan path is active. Symlink tests use one capability check, and the subprocess test requires empty stderr.

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

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the ignore: ["**/.*/**"] equivalence claim against Bun's walker: GlobWalker.rs stops ** recursion at hidden directories when dot is false (the hidden early-return in the double-wildcard branch), so pruning them from fast-glob's walk does not change which entries the two sides can disagree on. The memoized reference() map is also fine as written: the tests in this describe run sequentially and the cache holds a single resolved promise per pattern, so no cross-test mutation occurs.

Extended reasoning...

One inline finding was posted (the untouched EPERM/EACCES early return in the trailing-separator symlink test still lets it report PASSED without executing the new expect(stderr).toBe("") on Windows without symlink privilege), and a further verified finding was withheld, so approval is not appropriate. This note only records what else was examined and ruled out: the central correctness claim of the PR (that ignore: ["**/.*/**"] on fast-glob leaves the comparison sound) was checked against src/glob/GlobWalker.rs, where the ** component returns None for names starting with . when dot is false, meaning Bun cannot emit entries under a hidden directory for these patterns either; and the shared reference() cache was checked for cross-test interference, which does not arise since the promises resolve to immutable arrays consumed read-only by difference().

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

  • 🟣 test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts — On Windows runners without symlink privilege this test is reported PASSED after merge while asserting nothing, including the new expect(stderr).toBe("") at scan.test.ts:925. The bare return at scan.test.ts:895 on EPERM or EACCES exits the test body before any expect runs, so the tightened assertions the PR adds to this test never execute on that lane. Fix: skip with a reason instead of returning, e.g. gate the test with test.skipIf on a symlink-capability probe from harness, or throw so the lane fails loudly.

    Extended reasoning...

    The PR modifies this test (the stderr assertion at scan.test.ts:925) and the PR description counts it among the strengthened assertions, but the early-return path at scan.test.ts:892-897 is untouched. On a Windows runner where fs.symlinkSync at scan.test.ts:893 throws EPERM (no SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege), the function returns before Bun.spawn at scan.test.ts:914, so stdout, stderr and exitCode are never checked and bun test records the test as passed. Repository review guidance names this exact shape: a bare top-level return reports PASSED and must use a harness skip with a reason. The consequence is a lane where the symlink-offset regression this test guards (the comment at scan.test.ts:879-883) can reappear undetected, and the run stays green. The base branch has the same shape, so the dismissal as pre-existing is accurate, but the PR touches this test and claims stronger assertions, which is when reviewers expect the vacuous exit to be replaced. Remedy: replace the return with a skip that names the missing privilege.

    Verification: pre-existing. Triggering condition: a Windows runner where fs.symlinkSync throws EPERM/EACCES (no symlink privilege). Mechanism verified at /home/claude/bun/test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts:892-897: try { fs.symlinkSync(...) } catch (err) { if (err.code === "EPERM" || err.code === "EACCES") return; throw err; } — a bare return from the test body, before Bun.spawn at line 914 and every…

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❌ @robobun, your commit f1e19c2 has 2 failures in Build #118920 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 43621

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-43621 executable, so you can run:

bun-43621 --bun

…nnot be created

The test returned early when fs.symlinkSync failed with EPERM or EACCES,
so it was reported as passed without an assertion. It now uses the
canCreateDirSymlink probe that the symlink describe block already uses,
and is reported as skipped. The probe moves above its first use.
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Fixed in 3f4ba8f. The trailing-separator symlink test now uses the canCreateDirSymlink probe that the symlink describe block already uses, so a runner that cannot create symlinks reports the test as skipped and not as passed. The probe moved above its first use. I checked the skip path with the probe forced to false: the test shows as (skip).

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

LGTM. The follow-up commit hoists canCreateDirSymlink and replaces the in-test bare return with test.skipIf, so the trailing-separator symlink test now reports a skip instead of a pass when symlinks cannot be created; the rest of the refactor is unchanged since the last look, and the remaining inline note is a comment-length nit.

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Overview

Test-only change to test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts. Since the previous review, the only delta (commit 3f4ba8f) moves the canCreateDirSymlink probe above the trailing-separator symlink test and gates that test with test.skipIf(!canCreateDirSymlink), removing the try/catch early return that would have reported PASSED on Windows accounts without symlink privilege. The broader refactor (memoized fast-glob reference per pattern, test.each table, set-based difference() helper, ignore: ["**/.*/**"] on the fast-glob walk, and tightened assertions across bad options, ENOENT cases, glob.scan(string), the absolute-pattern test, deep-component patterns, and the previously fast-glob-only only files snapshot tests) is unchanged from the version already reviewed.

Security risks

None. No runtime code changes; the file only exercises Bun.Glob against fixtures under test/ and temp directories, with no network access.

Level of scrutiny

Low to moderate. I re-checked the ignore: ["**/.*/**"] equivalence: the three patterns under comparison (**/node_modules/**/*.js, **/*.js, **/*.ts) contain no explicit dot segments, and with dot: false neither scanner can match a path that passes through a hidden directory, so pruning those subtrees from the fast-glob walk cannot change the reference set. The absolute variant derives expected entries by prefixing the backslash-normalized process.cwd(), and difference() normalizes Bun's scanned output the same way on Windows, so both sides agree on separators. The bad options test relies on the beforeAll chdir into test/, which holds a package.json. Any mismatch in the newly Bun-driven only files snapshot tests would surface as a CI failure rather than a silent regression.

Other factors

The one finding this run is a nit about a five-line comment in fgOpts, which does not affect correctness. Prior third-party inline threads were resolved by a non-author, and the author's follow-up commit addressed the bare-return skip pattern. I could not execute the test file in this environment, so pass/fail on all lanes is left to CI, which is the appropriate backstop for a test-only refactor.

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LGTM — the comment trimming in f1e19c2 addresses my earlier nit, and the rest is a test-only tightening with nothing left open.

What was reviewed:

  • The bad options messages against src/runtime/api/glob.rs (expected first argument to be an object, invalid \cwd`, not a string) and the {cwd: ""}case:get_truthyskips an empty string, so it falls back toprocess.cwd(), which beforeAllsets totest/`.
  • The new ENOENT + path assertions against GlobWalker.rs: the broken-symlink openat and the root-open failure both attach the offending path via with_path.
  • The only files <pattern> switch to scanSync mirrors its (absolute) only files sibling exactly; difference() now also catches duplicates and extra entries, which the old length + membership check did not.
  • Could not run the file locally (no debug build or test/node_modules in this checkout), so the timing and Windows absolute-path claims rest on the CI lanes named in the description.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

The diff touches a single test file, test/js/bun/glob/scan.test.ts, with no runtime code changes. It collapses three copy-pasted fast-glob comparison tests into a test.each table with a memoized per-pattern reference walk, replaces a length check plus membership loop with a set-based difference() that reports missing/unexpected/duplicate entries, adds ignore: ["**/.*/**"] to the fast-glob options, derives absolute expectations by prefixing process.cwd(), and strengthens roughly ten weak assertions (bare toBeDefined, length > 0, console.log, a commented-out Bun call in the only files snapshot test, a bare return on EPERM). The canCreateDirSymlink probe is hoisted so a second test can skipIf on it instead of silently passing. The latest commit (f1e19c2) only shortens the new comments to one line each, which is what my prior inline nit asked for.

Security risks

None. No production code, no network, no credentials, no path handling outside tempDir/tmpdirSync fixtures. The fast-glob ignore option only narrows what the reference walker reads.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate, aimed at whether the tightened assertions are correct rather than at runtime behavior. I checked each new exact expectation against the Rust source: the two scan: error messages and the fn_name passed from scan/scanSync in src/runtime/api/glob.rs; the empty-cwd fallback (get_truthy treats "" as absent, and beforeAll chdirs to test/, which has a package.json); the ENOENT + path shape for a broken symlink (openat failure routed through handle_sys_err_with_path with the symlink path) and a missing cwd (root open failure .with_path(root_path)). The glob.scan(string) expectation of ["file.md"] matches the tempFixturesDir layout (.file is a dotfile, the rest are directories). The only files change mirrors its (absolute) only files sibling line for line. The ignore pruning is sound under dot: false because neither walker matches a ** or * segment against a dot-prefixed name, and the PR's mutation check (adding dot: true fails the tests) is consistent with that.

Other factors

The bug-hunting run exited on a dry streak with no findings, no candidate issues were ruled out, and the only open threads were a coderabbit comment resolved by a non-author and my own nit, which the latest commit addresses. The changed file is not covered by CODEOWNERS. I could not execute the file here (no debug build and no test/node_modules in the checkout, and installing dependencies was not permitted), so the reported timings and the Windows drive-letter/absolute-path equivalence rest on the CI lanes cited in the description; a regression there would surface as a test failure in CI rather than a shipped defect. The retained 30 s timeout argument on the eight whole-tree tests runs against test/CLAUDE.md's guidance, but it is pre-existing and the description gives a measured reason (13 s slowest in a debug build), so I did not treat it as blocking.

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