hot: let the newest console iterator take stdin after a reload

[robobun]

Problem

• Under bun --hot, after a save for await (const line of console) throws TypeError: Invalid state: ReadableStream is locked (top frame ConsoleAsyncIterator). The replaced code keeps reading stdin.
• The iterator (src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts:17) locks the one Bun.stdin.stream() and unlocks it only in its finally. A replaced loop is suspended in readMany() and never gets there.

Fix

• GlobalObject::reload() sets a private global. After that, a console iterator that starts takes the reader, and the read in flight, from the holder.
• The iterator that lost the reader stops on a promise that never settles. done would run the code after its loop.
• Before the first reload, and without --hot, nothing changes. A loop kept on globalThis stays the reader.
• Verified: test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts (9 new tests, 8 fail on main), Linux x64. Other suites: Notes.

Background

• --hot keeps one process and one global object. A generation is one evaluation of the entry.
• It needs the entry promise fix of --hot: fix a use-after-free of the entry point's promise #44350 (on main). Without it, --hot stops reloading within two saves when a loop starts from a timer.
• Bun.serve() under --hot has the same rule: the newest call wins. Considered a release at reload time: it stops a loop kept on globalThis.

Downsides

• After a reload, a second console loop takes stdin from a running one with no error.
• The top-level form (the loop as the entry's top-level await) still never reloads on main (hot: replace a generation that is parked on a top-level await #38613).
• A replaced loop that waits in a read stays in memory until the next chunk. Each line costs 3 more bytecode instructions (47 to 50). perf, valgrind and bloaty are not installed.

Notes

Repro (Linux, 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9):

mkdir r && cd r && mkfifo in.fifo && exec 9<>in.fifo
printf 'console.log("gen 1 start");\n(async () => { for await (const line of console) console.log("gen 1 got", line); })();\n' > entry.ts
bun --hot --no-clear-screen entry.ts < in.fifo > out.txt 2>&1 &
sleep 1; echo line-a >&9; sleep 1
printf 'console.log("gen 2 start");\n(async () => { for await (const line of console) console.log("gen 2 got", line); })();\n' > entry.ts
sleep 2; echo line-b >&9; sleep 1; cat out.txt
# main: gen 1 got line-a / gen 2 start / TypeError: Invalid state: ReadableStream is locked / gen 1 got line-b
# this PR: gen 1 got line-a / gen 2 start / gen 2 got line-b

Why this PR needs the entry promise fix of #44350. Before #44350, VirtualMachine.pending_internal_promise pointed at the entry promise, and nothing rooted that promise once it settled. The reload loop polls it on every tick. After a GC the cell could hold another promise. When that promise was pending, reload() read Pending and deferred every later reload. Without this PR a generation after the first one throws ReadableStream is locked and leaves no pending promise behind. With this PR the loop of each generation works, so it holds pending promises, and that fault showed. #44350 makes the VM hold the promise, and it is on main (4b02e10).

Measured on debug (ASAN) builds. The entry is saved 12 times. Each save waits for the line that the generation prints when its loop starts. The number is how many of the 13 generations started.

the loop starts	this PR on main before #44350 (8d36bff)	this PR on main with #44350 (f4d755a)
after await Bun.sleep(300)	3, 3	13, 13, 13
from a 1 ms timer, after Bun.gc(true)	2, 2	13, 13, 13
when the module is evaluated	not measured	13

In every run of the right column the stdin line went to generation 13. The test every save reloads when each generation starts its loop after a GC covers the second row. On the build of the left column it failed: generation 3 did not start, and the test ended at its timeout.

How the takeover works. The iterators of one console share their state in a closure. That state now holds the reader, the read that an iterator waits on, and a count of the iterators that took the reader. An iterator that starts after a reload does not call getReader(): it keeps the reader that is there and awaits the same read. When the read settles, the replaced iterator wakes first, sees that the count moved on, and stops. The new iterator wakes next and handles the chunk. The iterator that holds the reader when its loop ends releases it, as before. No bytes are lost: all iterators share the partial line, and unread chunks stay in the stream.

Why the takeover does not release the reader. An earlier version of this PR called releaseLock() on the replaced reader and took a new one. That has three effects that the current version does not have:

• releaseLock() rejects the read in flight. The replaced iterator caught that, but before --hot: fix a use-after-free of the entry point's promise #44350 the reload loop could report the rejected promise as a rejection of the entry point, through the same dead cell. A save then printed TypeError: Invalid state: Releasing reader although the takeover worked.
• releaseLock() drops the native source's hold on the event loop (streams: restore the native source ref when a new reader locks a released stream #41578), so the takeover had to call updateRef(true), which also undid an explicit process.stdin.unref().
• A read that was fulfilled but not yet resumed would have been lost.

The cost of the current version: a replaced iterator that waits in a read stays reachable until that read settles. Measured with a FinalizationRegistry: its closure is not collected within 3 s of the takeover with no input, and it is collected after the next line.

Why the newest iterator wins, and not the iterator of a newer generation. An earlier draft compared the reload count at the start of each iterator. A builtin cannot know which generation the code that calls it belongs to, only how many reloads happened so far. A generation that awaits something before its loop, together with a save that reloads twice (an in-place write sometimes does), starts both loops after both reloads. Both read the same count, and the newest loop got ReadableStream is locked. Bun.serve() under --hot takes the same approach: a second call on one port replaces the handlers, also within one generation. Without --hot it throws EADDRINUSE.

Designs considered.

• A release at reload time. It stops a loop that a script keeps across reloads on purpose (globalThis.loop ??= ...), which works today. The last test guards this.
• A takeover for every reader of Bun.stdin.stream(), in the streams core. It needs a bit on the stream and a check at each place that tests the lock, and it detaches a reader that a script kept on purpose (globalThis.reader ??= Bun.stdin.stream().getReader()).
• reader.cancel() and a fresh stream. cancel() closes the one stream for good, buffered bytes are lost, and the replaced loop sees done.
• A promise per iterator that one shared reaction settles, so that a replaced iterator is collected at once. It adds two promises to each read that waits, also without --hot.
• The iterator is the one holder whose reader the script cannot see or keep. That is why the change is there.

Where the replaced iterator can be when the new one starts.

• Suspended in await reader.readMany(). It stops in the finally of that await, whether the read was fulfilled or rejected, before it touches the shared state.
• Suspended at a yield, because the loop body of the replaced generation awaits something. The new iterator continues from the shared position: it yields the rest of the chunk and keeps what follows the last newline. When the old loop asks for the next line, the old iterator stops after its yield. If the old loop leaves with break, the old iterator ends without a release of the reader, and the code after the old loop runs, as the script asked.
• Suspended at the yield of the last line, when stdin ended on a line with no newline. The branch clears the shared partial line before it yields, so the new iterator does not yield it again. The replaced iterator stops after that yield too.

How the builtin reads the private global. It reads typeof $hotReloaded, a bare private name, so the user-writable globalThis binding is not involved and an absent global does not throw. The global is absent until the first reload, so a process without --hot defines nothing. An earlier draft used $getByIdDirectPrivate(globalThis, ...): globalThis is a JSGlobalProxy, the inline cache kept the proxy's structure with the offset of the target's property, and the next read crashed in llint_op_get_by_id_direct.

Why the takeover calls setFlowing(true). process.stdin.pause() stops the source that the console iterator shares (#43747). Without the call, the new generation reads nothing after the replaced one paused process.stdin. process.stdin makes the same call when it takes the reader (own() in ProcessObjectInternals.ts). The call can go when #43747 lands.

Changes that also apply without --hot. They are in the path where a script leaves a loop with break and starts another one. #33478 makes the first two too.

• The path that finishes a chunk keeps what follows the last newline. Input x\nbreak\ny\npar then tial\nz\n: the second loop got tial, and now gets partial.
• The end-of-stdin branch clears the partial line before it yields it, so a loop that starts after the end of stdin does not yield the last line again.
• On Windows, the first yield of that path now strips the \r of a CRLF like the other yields.

Tests (describe("stdin across a reload"), each feeds the child's stdin through a pipe and waits only for lines of its stdout). Each test compares the lines on stdout and the lines on stderr that contain Invalid state.

• the next generation reads the next line.
• the next generation gets the rest of a line that the replaced one read in part (line-a\npar, save, tial\n gives partial).
• replaced generations that were in their loop body read nothing more. One chunk holds l1 to l4 and par, with CRLF on Windows. Generation 1 stops in its body after l1, generation 2 after l2, generation 3 lets both continue while l4 is unread and later gets partial.
• a generation that starts its loop late does not keep stdin from the newest one. Generation 2 starts its loop only when generation 3 asks, so both loops start after the last reload.
• the next generation reads stdin after the replaced one paused process.stdin.
• a replaced generation that got the last line of stdin does not end its loop.
• a replaced generation that leaves its loop does not take stdin from the newest one.
• every save reloads when each generation starts its loop after a GC. 12 saves, then generation 13 reads the line. This one needs the entry promise fix of --hot: fix a use-after-free of the entry point's promise #44350.
• a loop that the script keeps on globalThis stays the reader. This one passes on main too. It guards the choice to take over when a loop starts and not at the reload.
• On a debug build of main f4d755a, and on 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9, the other eight fail with generation 2 error Invalid state: ReadableStream is locked.
• Mutations of this branch, debug build, each makes a test fail. They ran before the rebase onto main, and the rebase did not change the iterator. Without the check after the await of the read: generation 1 got "line-b". With a new read in place of the read in flight: the tests do not finish. Without setFlowing(true): the paused test does not finish. Without the check after the main loop's yield: generation 1 got "l4". Without the check after the first yield of the resume path: generation 2 got "l4". Without the check at the end of stdin: generation 1 done. Without the clear of the partial line there: generation 2 got "tail". Without the kept rest of a chunk: generation 3 got "tial". With a release in the finally of a replaced iterator: generation 2 error Invalid state: The reader is not attached to a stream.
• No test reaches the check after the second yield of the resume path. It sits in the loop over the later chunks of one readMany() result. A burst of 512 KiB on a pipe gives such results, but where the chunks split is not fixed, and the test would also need a third generation that takes over inside the second chunk.
• Also run on the debug (ASAN) build of this branch on main f4d755a, Linux x64: all of hot.test.ts (25 pass, with the tests of --hot: fix a use-after-free of the entry point's promise #44350), test/js/bun/console/console-iterator.test.ts (17 pass), test/js/node/process/process-stdin.test.ts (22 pass), and the typecheck of the built-in modules. The new tests also passed under BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 before the rebase.
• Windows x64: an earlier version of this PR (the takeover with a release, seven tests) passed there on a debug build, and six of those tests failed on the Windows canary (8884311). The current takeover and the two newest tests did not run on Windows here.

Cost, measured.

• Bytecode of the generator: 406 to 607 instructions, 2616 to 3930 bytes. It is generated when a script first iterates console.
• Per line, on the path that is not replaced: resolve_scope, get_from_scope, jstricteq (47 to 50 instructions in the loop).
• Per read that waits: two stores, two loads and one compare of closure variables.
• Builtin source in the binary: 2152 to 3236 bytes.
• A/B: copies of both versions of the generator as plain scripts, run on the same release binary, stdin is a file of 1,000,000 lines, 15 interleaved pairs, CPU time of the loop. Base 405.7 / 603.0 / 706.1 ms (min / median / max), this PR 442.4 / 627.0 / 783.1 ms. The host was under load, and the ranges overlap.
• Per reload: one putDirect. Per iterator: one lookup of a global.

Review history. A self-review of the first draft ran probes against it. Four findings changed the code: the gate (a comparison of reload counts failed for loops that start late), the paused source at takeover, the read of the private global through the user-writable globalThis, and tests for each check after a yield. The review did not run to its end, so it gave no final list. Review comments on this PR then led to the check at the end of stdin, the kept rest of a chunk with the \r strip, the boolean global, the check of stderr in the tests, and the takeover that does not release the reader. A report of reloads that stop led to a stack on #41146, which held the entry promise fix then. #44350 put that fix on main, and the branch is now rebased onto main.

Still open, all exist on main.

• The top-level shape (for await (const line of console) as the entry's top-level await) does not reload at all on main. hot: replace a generation that is parked on a top-level await #38613 makes it reload, and this takeover then applies to it.
• A save that removes the loop leaves the replaced loop on stdin, as it leaves a replaced timer or server running.
• Code of a replaced generation that starts a loop late takes stdin from the newest generation.
• A reader that a script takes itself (Bun.stdin.stream().getReader()) still throws ReadableStream is locked after a save. The script can keep it on globalThis.
• process.stdin listeners of a replaced generation stay attached (--hot mode caused double echo in console #15027, hot: reset process.stdin/stdout/stderr listeners on reload #30633).
• A generation that reads process.stdin followed by one that iterates console, or the reverse: the second still gets ReadableStream is locked.
• process.stdin.pause() after the takeover stops the source under the new loop (process.stdin: let the next reader of Bun.stdin.stream() resume a paused stdin #43747).
• Without --hot, a loop that starts after another one ended does not keep the process alive (streams: restore the native source ref when a new reader locks a released stream #41578).
• Fix console async iterator lock handoff #37299 and console iterator: split lines like node:readline #33478 change the same function, so one of the three needs a rebase after another lands.

Found on the way, not changed here.

• should hot reload when a file is renamed() into place does not finish on a Windows x64 debug build of main, with or without this PR. It passes on the Windows canary.

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[robobun]

Status

Ready for review: #43951. It targets main again. The entry promise fix it needs is on main through #44350.

How it was reproduced, on 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 (Linux x64), on 1.4.3-canary.1+888431140 (Windows x64), and on a debug build of main f4d755a (Linux x64):

• A child runs bun --hot entry.ts with a pipe as stdin. The entry is (async () => { for await (const line of console) console.log("gen 1 got", line); })();.
• The parent writes line-a, saves the entry as generation 2, then writes line-b.
• On main, generation 2 throws TypeError: Invalid state: ReadableStream is locked and generation 1 prints gen 1 got line-b.
• With this branch, generation 2 prints gen 2 got line-b and nothing is printed to stderr.

The nine tests in test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts (stdin across a reload) cover this. Eight of them fail on main.

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Hot reload now exposes a marker on the global object. The stdin async iterator transfers reader ownership across reloads. New CLI tests check input delivery across generations and reader states.

Changes

Stdin reader ownership across hot reloads

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Expose the hot-reload marker src/js/builtins.d.ts, src/js/builtins/BunBuiltinNames.h, src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp	The builtin declarations and identifier list include the marker. GlobalObject::reload() sets it to true.
Transfer stdin reader ownership src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts	asyncIterator shares the active reader and in-flight read across reloads. Superseded iterators wait after yielding or when their read settles.
Test stdin behavior across reloads test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts	The subprocess helper and tests check input delivery across reloads, including partial lines, paused or delayed readers, EOF, and a reader retained on globalThis.

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The stdin takeover and EOF safeguards are supported by source inspection. The remaining concern is the test helper’s timer-based retry; replace it with condition-driven recovery to satisfy the testing requirements.

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🟡 Minor · Guard the EOF flush yield and clear pendingChunk before it · ConsoleObject.ts:88-91

src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts:88-91
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard the EOF flush yield and clear pendingChunk before it

The takeover guards follow every yield except the EOF flush at Line 89. Here is the trigger:

1. stdin ends with a partial line.
2. A reload happens while the replaced loop handles that last line.

Then two failures occur:

• The new iterator shares pendingChunk, which is still set. Its readMany() returns done, so it yields the same line a second time.
• The replaced iterator resumes and runs return. Its for await loop ends, and the code after the loop runs. The takeover comment at Lines 19-22 says that must not happen.

Clear the shared state before you yield. Then stop a superseded iterator the same way as the other yield sites.

🐛 Proposed fix

         if (done) {
           if (pendingChunk) {
-            yield decoder.decode(pendingChunk);
+            const rest = pendingChunk;
+            pendingChunk = undefined;
+            yield decoder.decode(rest);
+            if (reader !== activeReader) await $newPromise();
           }
           return;
         }

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path, clear the shared pendingChunk before yielding its decoded contents, then
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The finding about the yield at the end of stdin is correct. 0af9c51 addresses it.

• The branch now clears the shared partial line before it yields. The iterator that takes over reads the end of stdin and does not yield that line again.
• A replaced iterator stops after that yield, like at the other yield sites. The code after its loop does not run.
• New test: a replaced generation that got the last line of stdin does not end its loop in test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts. Without the check it prints generation 1 done. Without the clear it prints generation 2 got tail.

The clear also changes one case without --hot: a second for await (const line of console) after the end of stdin no longer yields the last partial line again. #33478 makes the same change.

[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two paths that turned out fine: the EOF pendingChunk handoff (it is cleared before the yield, so the successor does not re-emit the trailing line) and updateRef(true) after a process.stdin.unref() (the unref'd source is only re-held once a new loop starts after a reload, which is the same hold a fresh reader would take).

Extended reasoning...

The change makes the console async iterator in src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts hand stdin to the newest loop after a bun --hot reload, signalled by a private global set in GlobalObject::reload(), with seven new hot-reload subprocess tests; no security-sensitive surface. The inline findings cover the design questions (silent takeover, dropped chunk tail, stderr not asserted), so this note only records what else was examined and ruled out.

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Still open from earlier reviews (7):

• 🔴 src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts:49 — Under bun --hot, a save while the old loop body is mid-await silently drops the unfinished line at the end of the chunk…
• Also unresolved: 6 minor or pre-existing.

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🟡 Minor · Preserve process.stdin.unref() during iterator takeover. · ConsoleObject.ts:31

src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts:31
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Preserve process.stdin.unref() during iterator takeover.

Bun.stdin is an fd-backed Blob, and .stream() caches its stream. Therefore, the process stdin and console iterator paths share the same native source. After process.stdin.unref() sets forceUnref, the takeover branch calls source.updateRef(true) and can keep the process alive.

Use the same shared reference policy as getStdinStream instead of unconditionally restoring true. Store or expose the forceUnref state so takeover can preserve an explicit unref.

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[claude]

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 re-checked the resume path after e42156a: the i !== -1 loop now strips \r on win32 and stores the chunk tail into pendingChunk the same way the two sibling loops do, and the $hotReloaded flag is now a boolean whose only consumer tests presence. The runHot helper now pipes stderr, wires reader failures to ended/changed, and every test asserts the Invalid state lines, so a spurious error on save would surface in CI.

Extended reasoning...

The latest push changes only ConsoleObject.ts and the test helper relative to the version previously reviewed; the remaining open item is a pre-existing re-ref gap on the non-hot restart path, posted inline. The async-generator takeover and never-settling park still warrant a human look, so this is not an approval.

[robobun]

Two changes since e42156a.

The takeover keeps an explicit process.stdin.unref() (babe820, 94adbb0). The finding about updateRef(true) is correct for e42156a. The iterator that starts now keeps the reader of the iterator that holds stdin, and awaits the read that is in flight. It does not call releaseLock(), getReader() or updateRef(). Checked with a script where generation 1 calls process.stdin.unref(): beforeExit fires in generation 2 as it does in generation 1. Without the unref() it fires in neither.

The PR is now stacked on #41146. With this PR alone, bun --hot stops reloading after one or two saves when each generation starts its loop from a timer. The cause is the entry promise that the reload loop polls and that nothing roots. #41146 roots it. Measured on debug builds, 12 saves, loop after await Bun.sleep(300): 3 of 13 generations start without #41146 (2 runs), 13 of 13 with it (3 runs). The new test every save reloads when each generation starts its loop after a GC covers this.

The branch was rebased onto the branch of #41146, so the diff shows only this change. A merge of that branch would have put 109 commits of main into the diff.

[claude]

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

The latest push addresses the points raised earlier (stderr is now piped and asserted, the resume path stores the chunk tail and strips \r, the takeover no longer calls releaseLock(), and the entry promise is rooted). Beyond the inline note, I also checked: the new m_pendingInternalPromise slot sits in FOR_EACH_GLOBALOBJECT_GC_MEMBER, so visitChildrenImpl visits it without a separate edit; the test-isolation swap creates a fresh global, so dropping the explicit clear there does not leak the slot across files; and with the shared in-flight activeRead awaited by both iterators, a replaced iterator parks in its finally before touching shared state, so no read result is consumed twice. The bare typeof $hotReloaded private-name read is a new pattern in src/js/, so a human look at that mechanism is still worthwhile.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves the entry-point promise from a raw pointer with manual protect bookkeeping in VirtualMachine.rs to a WriteBarrier on Zig::GlobalObject, and rewrites the console async iterator so the newest iterator takes stdin after a --hot reload while superseded iterators park on a never-settling promise. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface. The GC slot is visited via the existing macro list and the test-isolation path swaps the whole global, which is why the removed protect/unprotect and clear are behavior-preserving; the novel bare private-name read in a builtin and the accepted same-generation takeover downside are design points a maintainer should weigh.

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

• 🟡 src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.h:541 — nit: maintainers get another field on Zig::GlobalObject for per-VM state, which the review rules list as a god-file addition to avoid. src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.h:540-541 adds m_pendingInternalPromise plus two accessors and two extern "C" shims for a value that only VirtualMachine.rs reads and writes. Fix: root the entry-point promise from the object that owns it, e.g. a JSC::Strong<JSInternalPromise>-backed slot owned by the VM (or its rare data) exposed through one FFI pair, while keeping the slot rooted across reloads and cleared with the global on test isolation reset.

  Why this was flagged

  The diff adds V(private, WriteBarrier<JSC::JSPromise>, m_pendingInternalPromise) to the FOR_EACH_GLOBALOBJECT_GC_MEMBER list at src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.h:540-541, accessors at :784-785, and Bun__GlobalObject__pendingInternalPromise / Bun__GlobalObject__setPendingInternalPromise at src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp:4637-4653. The only consumers are VirtualMachine::pending_internal_promise() and set_pending_internal_promise() in src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:3491-3504. No runtime behavior differs from the base branch because of the placement; the finding is that the repository review rules say new fields do not go on ZigGlobalObject and per-VM state belongs on VirtualMachine/RareData. The rooting itself is correct: the macro list is visited by visitChildrenImpl at src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3271 and test isolation creates a fresh global at src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5753-5760.

  Verification: nit. Triggering condition: any reader/maintainer of the global object header — nothing breaks at runtime, but the repository's review rules explicitly forbid this placement ("Place new code in the module that owns the feature, never god files (no new fields on ZigGlobalObject ...)" and "Per-VM state goes on VirtualMachine/RareData"). Verified in the diff:… | nit. Triggering condition:…

[robobun]

The note on m_pendingInternalPromise (src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.h:541) is about the change in #41146. That code is not in this diff: #41146 is the base of this stack. I left a pointer to the note on #41146.

On the bare typeof $hotReloaded: the PR notes describe it under "How the builtin reads the private global". The short form: a bare private name resolves on the global object itself, so the user-writable globalThis binding is not involved, and typeof keeps an absent global from a ReferenceError. The global is absent until the first reload, so a process without --hot defines nothing.

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Replace the time-based retry in save.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push and found no new bugs; the points I raised earlier look addressed in the code now, but since this changes a builtin's stdin ownership semantics under --hot (newest iterator silently wins), a maintainer should still weigh the design.

What was reviewed:

• ConsoleObject.ts takeover: the resume path now stores the chunk tail into pendingChunk and strips \r on win32 like the main path; $hotReloaded replaced the unread reload count; replaced iterators park on $newPromise() at every yield and after the shared read settles, and only the current turn releases the lock.
• hot.test.ts stdin tests now pipe and drain stderr concurrently, wire reader failures to the waiters, and assert signalCode/exit; the stacked entry-promise Strong fix (#44350) is in the range.
• The remaining range (usockets close/notify rework, SQL, valkey, net/tls) consists of separately merged main commits, not this PR's five-file change.

Extended reasoning...

The PR itself touches five files: the console async iterator builtin (src/js/builtins/ConsoleObject.ts), a new private global set in GlobalObject::reload() (ZigGlobalObject.cpp, BunBuiltinNames.h, builtins.d.ts), and ~400 lines of new hot.test.ts coverage; the rest of the 66-file diff range is upstream main commits already merged under their own PR numbers. No security-sensitive surface is involved. The code addresses every inline finding from the four prior runs (pendingChunk on resume, win32 \r strip, dead reload counter, inherited stderr, uncaught stdout reader), and no new bugs were found. Deferring rather than approving because the change encodes a deliberate semantic choice (any live iterator is replaceable once a reload has happened, with no error signal) and relies on subtle shared generator state across iterators, which warrants a maintainer's judgment.