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Same model as Node/libuv for process.stdout / process.stderr on POSIX: a pipe or socket behind fd 1/2 is O_NONBLOCK (libuv's uv_pipe_open does this too) and written asynchronously; TTYs and files are synchronous. O_NONBLOCK lives on the shared open file description, so it leaked in two places that Node covers and Bun did not:

before after
stdio: "inherit" child runs head -c 1000000 after parent used process.stdout EAGAIN, short output, exit 1 full output, exit 0
fd 1/2 flags seen by an inherit child O_NONBLOCK blocking
console.log(1 MiB line) after process.stdout.isTTY, piped 720896 bytes 1048577 bytes
process.stdout.write(1 MiB) to a full pipe false + 'drain' false + 'drain' (unchanged)
same, after an inherit spawn (socket any OS / pipe Linux) would block like Node false + 'drain'
  • spawn clears O_NONBLOCK on the fds that become the child's 0–2, as libuv's uv__process_child_init does. Done parent-side before posix_spawn (same effect, since the description is shared, and macOS file actions cannot fcntl).
  • The native console writer waits for POLLOUT on EAGAIN instead of dropping the rest of the line. Node does not need this because console.* goes through the stdout stream there.

Supersedes #33560 and #33827.

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test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts gains 9 tests (fd-flag probe in an inherit child, head -c through inherited stdout, 1 MiB console.log/console.error, 1 MiB through a real pipe(2) via sh, and the false + 'drain' contract over both a socketpair and a real pipe). 6 fail on 1.4.3 (the post-spawn ones guard this PR's own spawn change), all pass here; also ran process-stdin, spawn, child-process-stdio, console-log locally on macOS.

Touching process.stdout or process.stderr used to set O_NONBLOCK on fd 1/2.
The flag lives on the open file description, so it leaked to children with
inherited stdio (plain tools then fail write(2) with EAGAIN) and to the
native console writer (console.log dropped output once the pipe filled).

Never set O_NONBLOCK on a caller-supplied fd. process.stdout/stderr on a
pipe or socket now write through a per-call nonblocking path instead:
pwritev2(RWF_NOWAIT) on Linux, a bounded write sized by kqueue's writable
byte count on macOS, MSG_NBIO for sockets on macOS. write() still returns
false and emits 'drain' on a full pipe. The console writer also waits on
EAGAIN instead of dropping output if another process set the flag.
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Unix pipe writes now use bounded fallbacks and wait for writable status after EAGAIN. Spawn setup clears nonblocking mode on inherited standard and pipe descriptors. New process stdio tests cover large writes, backpressure, drain events, and child descriptor flags.

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Unix stdio pipe handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded pipe writes and backpressure
src/sys/lib.rs, test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts
write_nonblocking uses write_bounded as a fallback, which estimates available pipe space. After Unix EAGAIN, fd_write_all_quiet polls indefinitely for POLLOUT. Tests cover large output, backpressure, and drain events.
Child descriptor blocking mode
src/spawn_sys/spawn_process.rs, test/js/node/process/fd-nonblock-fixture.js, test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts
Spawn setup clears nonblocking mode on inherited standard descriptors and PosixStdio::Pipe descriptors. A fixture reports descriptor blocking status, and tests check child descriptors.

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Spawning a child with inherited or caller-supplied pipes now switches those pipes to blocking mode for the parent too. A later write to a full pipe can freeze the parent's event loop instead of applying backpressure. A related race in the pipe-write fallback can also block. Resolve both before merging, or explicitly accept them.

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The kqueue probe reported 0 writable bytes for a pty master, so
Bun.Terminal writes (which share the blocking-pipe path) never landed.
fstat on a macOS pipe gives capacity (st_blksize) and queued bytes
(st_size) in one stateless call, and S_ISFIFO limits it to real pipes.
Elsewhere the fallback writes at most PIPE_BUF after POLLOUT, which a
pipe always accepts. Also flag the Terminal writer's poll Nonblocking,
since its fd is, so it takes the plain write path.

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- write_nonblocking's no-RWF_NOWAIT fallback wrote the whole buffer after
  POLLOUT; it now goes through write_bounded like the steady-state path.
- Linux bound: free page slots from F_GETPIPE_SZ/FIONREAD (a part-read
  head and part-filled tail each cost a slot), else one page after POLLOUT.
- macOS: only anonymous pipes (st_dev 0) report capacity via fstat; named
  FIFOs are socket-backed, so they get PIPE_BUF after POLLOUT.
- on_poll capped a drain at the kqueue byte hint and then reported the
  capped write as Drained, stranding the tail until exit. Report Pending.
- Tests: run the 1 MiB and false+'drain' cases through sh so fd 1 is a
  real pipe(2), not Bun.spawn's socketpair; rename the probe to -fixture;
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self.try_write_with_write_fn(buf, sys::write)
}
FileType::Pipe => self.try_write_with_write_fn(buf, write_to_blocking_pipe),
FileType::Pipe => self.try_write_with_write_fn(buf, sys::write_nonblocking),

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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing: on macOS a Bun shell builtin (echo, cat) whose stdout is a socket still parks the JS thread in one full blocking write(2) until the reader drains. The shell's stdout IOWriter never sets is_socket (src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs:1211-1218) and src/runtime/shell/IOWriter.rs:434-435 refuses the Socket flag on macOS, so the write lands in the FileType::Pipe arm at src/io/PipeWriter.rs:79 and write_bounded issues an unbounded write on a blocking socket. Fix: route every blocking-socket stdio writer through write_to_socket now that SEND_FLAGS_NONBLOCK carries MSG_NBIO: derive is_socket from fstat in interpreter.rs and drop the macOS guard at IOWriter.rs:432-435.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.

Why this was flagged

A Bun process on macOS whose fd 1 is a socket (any child of Bun.spawn with stdout: "pipe", which is a socketpair per src/spawn_sys/spawn_process.rs) runs Bun.$cat bigfile without .quiet(), so the builtin's output goes to the interpreter's stdout IOWriter, a dup of fd 1 (src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs:1200-1218) created with Flags { pollable, ..Default::default() } so is_socket and nonblock are false. In __start the writer therefore gets FilePollFlag::Fifo, not Socket (src/runtime/shell/IOWriter.rs:434-438; the comment there says MSG_DONTWAIT can still block on macOS). try_write then takes the FileType::Pipe arm at src/io/PipeWriter.rs:79, sys::write_nonblocking -> write_bounded (src/sys/lib.rs:7355-7376): pipe_writable_space does fstat, sees S_IFSOCK, returns None (src/sys/lib.rs:7413-7415), is_writable reports POLLOUT once 2048 bytes of space exist, and write(fd, buf.len()) is issued on a blocking socket, which XNU completes only after every byte is sent. The JS thread is parked until the parent reads. The base branch fails the same way through the deleted write_to_blocking_pipe,…

Verification: pre-existing — triggers on macOS when a Bun process whose fd 1 is a blocking SOCK_STREAM socket (e.g. any Bun.spawn child with stdout: "pipe": src/spawn_sys/spawn_process.rs:842-844 creates an AF_UNIX socketpair and :909 only calls set_nonblocking on the parent end fds[0], so the child's fd 1 stays blocking) runs a non-quiet shell builtin that writes more than the socket's free send space.…

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Acknowledged, pre-existing; shell IOWriter is out of scope for this PR.

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Checked this one properly and it does not reproduce. The shell IOWriter never does a direct first write: it registers the writable poll and writes only from on_poll, which already caps each write to kqueue's EVFILT_WRITE byte count for blocking fds (PipeWriter.rs max_write = size_hint). Trace of main's debug build running echo <1 MiB> into a Bun.spawn socket stdout that nobody is reading yet:

register writable → onPoll(1048577) → wrote 524288
register writable → onPoll(524289)  → wrote 458752
register writable → onPoll(65537)   → wrote 65537, unregister

No full-buffer write(2), and the child answers a stdin ping while the echo is still pending, on 1.4.3 and on this branch alike. Leaving the shell path alone.

Linux packs a write's page-multiple part into fresh slots, so queued
bytes undercount used slots and a byte-derived bound could still block.
Use the one guarantee POLLOUT gives (a free page; PIPE_BUF on BSD). On
macOS let an empty anonymous pipe take 64K so XNU grows it. In the
real-pipe drain test the probe now inspects the inherited fd 1 and
reports on fd 2, and the reader installs SIGUSR1 before announcing.
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Updated 6:41 PM PT - Sep 25th, 2026

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The last 3 reviews of this pull request each found new blocking issues, repeatedly in src/sys/lib.rs. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

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…dren

Drop the per-call nonblocking write machinery. process.stdout/stderr on
a pipe or socket set O_NONBLOCK on fd 1/2 as before (libuv's uv_pipe_open
does the same). Two fixes for where that flag leaks:

- spawn clears O_NONBLOCK on the fds that become the child's 0-2, like
  libuv's uv__process_child_init, so plain tools with inherited stdio do
  not get EAGAIN.
- the native console writer waits for POLLOUT on EAGAIN instead of
  dropping the rest of the line.
@Jarred-Sumner Jarred-Sumner changed the title process.stdout/stderr: keep fd 1 and 2 blocking process.stdout/stderr: clear O_NONBLOCK for spawned children, don't drop console output on EAGAIN Sep 24, 2026

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Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the new EAGAIN branch in fd_write_all_quiet for hangs: posix::poll retries EINTR itself, and a POLLHUP/POLLERR wakeup falls through to a retried write(2) that returns EPIPE and exits the loop, so an infinite-timeout poll cannot park the caller once the reader is gone.

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This push drops the earlier PipeWriter/pipe_writable_space rework and keeps three native changes: clearing O_NONBLOCK on inherited and piped child stdio fds in spawn_process_posix, adding the private MSG_NBIO flag to SEND_FLAGS_NONBLOCK on macOS, and polling for POLLOUT on EAGAIN in the console writer. No security-sensitive surface is touched. The remaining inline finding concerns the parent's own stdout pipe becoming blocking after any inherit spawn, which is a behavior change from the base branch that a human should weigh against the stated goal of matching libuv.

The last 4 reviews of this pull request each found new blocking issues, repeatedly in src/sys/lib.rs. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

The pipe write path in src/sys/lib.rs sizes blocking writes from guessed free space (fstat fields, slot arithmetic, EOPNOTSUPP fallback); any wrong guess parks the JS thread.
Bounding each pipe write to what the kernel guarantees after POLLOUT, never to an estimated free-space count, should close the reported cases that share this cause.

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The case in #33827 still fails on this branch (6bd759f). This PR clears O_NONBLOCK on the descriptors that Bun hands to a child. It does not restore the flag when Bun exits, so a sibling that the shell starts after Bun still gets EAGAIN:

{ bun -e 'void process.stdout.isTTY'; head -c 300000 /dev/zero; } | { sleep 0.4; wc -c; }
fd 1 flags before / after head wc -c
this branch (debug build) 01 / 04001 Resource temporarily unavailable, exit 1 8192 (pipe capacity here)
bun 1.4.3 01 / 04001 same error, exit 1 8192
node v26.3.0 01 / 01 exit 0 300000

test/js/node/process/process-stdio-nonblock.test.ts from #33827 fails 6 of 7 on this branch.

The c-bindings.cpp change from #33827 applies cleanly on top of this branch. It snapshots F_GETFL for fds 0-2 at startup and restores the O_NONBLOCK bit in bun_restore_stdio(). With it, the repro prints 300000, that test file passes 7 of 7, and the 7 new tests in this PR still pass.

I left #33827 open for that reason. Fold the change in here or land it separately, as you prefer.

…free

A stdout pipe on Linux now always writes with pwritev2(RWF_NOWAIT), and a
stdout socket on any Unix with send(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_NBIO), instead of a
plain write that relied on the fd's O_NONBLOCK. Both are the same single
syscall, so the parent stays asynchronous even after an inherit spawn
cleared the flag on the shared description. TTYs get their own poll flag
so they keep the plain blocking write. macOS pipes have no per-call
option and behave like Node there.

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The last 5 reviews of this pull request each found new blocking issues, repeatedly in src/sys/lib.rs and test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

The pipe write path in src/io/PipeWriter.rs sizes plain write(2) calls on the now-blocking fd 1/2 from a guess (fstat snapshot, slot estimate, global RWF flag) and parks when wrong.
Routing every stdout/stderr write through one path bounded by what the kernel guarantees (per-call nonblocking flag, else POLLOUT then PIPE_BUF) should close the reported cases that share this cause.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • 🔴 src/spawn_sys/spawn_process.rs:801 — After spawning any child with an inherited fd 1/2, a parent whose stdout is a pipe can park its JS thread inside write(…
  • Also unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
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- A tty or pty answering EOPNOTSUPP to preadv2/pwritev2(RWF_NOWAIT) no
  longer turns the flag off for every pipe in the process. Only ENOSYS
  does; each reader/writer remembers "not on this fd" and stops asking.
- is_tty is unix-only (dead_code on Windows broke the build).
- Test: gate the RWF_NOWAIT case on Linux >= 6.4 (pipes lack FMODE_NOWAIT
  before that); assert exact bytes rather than lengths.

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

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

  • Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

  • Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

Comment on lines +239 to +240
env: bunEnv,
stdout: "pipe",

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🟡 nit (optional): when this test fails before the kill, the gated reader child is orphaned and idles forever on the CI runner. process.kill(readerPid!, "SIGUSR1") at test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts:251 runs only after expect(ret).toBe(false) passes, and await using proc only terminates sh, not the pipeline's two bun children. Fix: signal or kill the reader in a try/finally (or once its pid is known, register it for cleanup) so it exits on every failure path, including the "stderr closed early" throw from next().

Why this was flagged

expectDrainOverPipe at test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts:222-245 spawns sh -c '"$0" -e "$1" | "$0" -e "$2"'; the reader child (gatedReader, line 208-210) installs a SIGUSR1 handler and a setInterval of 1<<30 ms, so it never exits on its own. The only thing that ends it is process.kill(readerPid!, "SIGUSR1") at line 240, which is reached only after expect(ret).toBe(false) at line 239 succeeds and after every events.next() call returned without throwing. If ret is true, or next() throws "stderr closed early", the test fails and the async dispose of proc kills only the sh process; Bun.spawn does not put the pipeline in its own process group, so the reader bun process (and the writer, if it is still blocked in write) keep running as orphans. On a persistent CI runner that is a leaked process per failed run; the base branch has no such test.

Verification: nit — triggers whenever expectDrainOverPipe fails before its kill line (writer reports ret:true, or the writer prints a non-JSON line such as a crash stack trace so JSON.parse at line 183 throws). In /home/claude/bun/test/js/node/process/process-stdio.test.ts the gated reader (lines 209-211) installs process.on("SIGUSR1", ...) and setInterval(() => {}, 1 << 30) and only reads stdin inside…

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

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

  • Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

#if defined(__APPLE__)
extern int Bun__doesMacOSVersionSupportSendRecvMsgX();
/* XNU's sosend() only skips waiting for buffer space for MSG_NBIO (private, 0x20000); MSG_DONTWAIT alone still blocks there. */
#define LIBUS_SEND_DONTWAIT (MSG_DONTWAIT | 0x20000)

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🟡 nit (optional): maintainers now have the private XNU MSG_NBIO value written twice as a bare literal, so a future correction to one copy silently misses the other. bsd.c:66 spells it as 0x20000 inside LIBUS_SEND_DONTWAIT while src/sys/lib.rs:3104 defines MSG_NBIO: i32 = 0x20000 for the same purpose. Fix: give the C side a named MSG_NBIO-style define (with the XNU source line it comes from) that LIBUS_SEND_DONTWAIT ORs in, so both send paths (bsd_send, bsd_sendmsg) and the Rust SEND_FLAGS_NONBLOCK name the same constant instead of repeating the magic number.

Why this was flagged

The diff adds the Darwin-private send flag in two unrelated modules: packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c:66 #define LIBUS_SEND_DONTWAIT (MSG_DONTWAIT | 0x20000) and src/sys/lib.rs:3104 const MSG_NBIO: i32 = 0x20000;. Neither references the other, and the C copy is an unnamed literal inside a macro. If the value or its applicability is ever revised (for example after the private-flag concern already discussed on this PR), whoever edits src/sys/lib.rs will not find the bsd.c copy by name, and usockets TCP/unix socket sends on macOS keep the stale flag while FileSink/spawn stdio sends use the new one. No runtime failure today; the base branch had neither copy. Repository review guidance asks that a fact live in one place and that magic numbers be named constants.

Verification: nit. Both citations check out: packages/bun-usockets/src/bsd.c:66 adds #define LIBUS_SEND_DONTWAIT (MSG_DONTWAIT | 0x20000) with the value as an anonymous literal inside the macro (only the comment on line 65 names it as MSG_NBIO), and src/sys/lib.rs:3104 adds const MSG_NBIO: i32 = 0x20000; (macOS-gated, folded into SEND_FLAGS_NONBLOCK at :3108). The two definitions are in separate modules…

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Leaving the literal in both places: the C side shares no header with bun_sys, and each site carries the one-line XNU note.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

Still open from earlier reviews (3):

  • Unresolved: 3 minor or pre-existing.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

Still open from earlier reviews (3):

  • Unresolved: 3 minor or pre-existing.

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