PipeReader: release the fd before a read error is reported

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Problem

• When a read of a child's output fails, bun run --filter and --parallel, bun test --parallel, bun install and Bun.cron never return: the child blocks on a full socket. Found by fault injection.
• Cause: PosixBufferedReader::on_error (src/io/PipeReader.rs:479) reports the error and keeps the fd. Eight of 14 parents only count the pipe as finished.

Fix

• on_error closes the handle and sets IS_DONE before it reports, as EOF does. A failed poll registration reports through it.
• Terminal and the POSIX SubprocessPipeReader lose their own release. FileReader has one fix (Notes).
• bun install: when SIGPIPE ends a lifecycle script after that close, bun exits with code 1 and does not raise the signal (separable, Notes).
• Verified: test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts (16 new tests, on main 15 never return).

Background

• PosixBufferedReader reads pipes and sockets for 14 parents. CLOSE_HANDLE says that the reader owns the fd. Readers with it off keep their fd.
• Considered a release in each parent: 11 sites, not 3, and a new parent hangs again.
• No exit code rule changes here. The rule that lost output fails the command needs a design decision and is cli: count a child whose output failed to read as failed #44060.

Downsides

• Where main hangs, a command can now exit 0 with the output cut (a script that ignores EPIPE, a test worker). A hang is loud, this is quiet.
• A running script gets EPIPE or SIGPIPE at its next write. On main it finished if its remaining output fit the socket buffer.
• Release binary, linux-x64: size equal to main. read_loop +46 B, read_once unchanged.

Notes

Why this PR got smaller. Until a26c4e4 it also held the rule that a child whose output failed to read counts as failed. A review before merge found that the rule needs a design decision and that the reader change does not. The PR process rules of the repository say: "If one part triggers design debate mid-review, carve it out so the uncontroversial part merges." The first self-review, which ran before that question came up, said to keep one PR. The rule is now #44060, stacked on this PR.

What each command does with this PR alone (debug build, one read fails):

Command	main	this PR
bun run --filter, --parallel, script that checks its writes	never returns	the script exits with its own code (7 in the test), the command exits with it
bun run --filter, script with default SIGPIPE	never returns	Signaled with code SIGPIPE, exit code 141
bun run, script that ignores EPIPE and exits 0	never returns, or exit 0 with a part of the output	exit 0, output cut, no message
bun test --parallel	never returns	2 pass, exit 0, the output of that worker is cut
bun install, lifecycle script that checks its writes	prints the read error, then never returns	prints the read error, fails with the script's code
bun install, lifecycle script that SIGPIPE ends	prints the read error, then never returns	prints both errors, exit code 1. An optional dependency is skipped
bun install, lifecycle script that exits 0	prints the read error, then never returns	prints the read error, exit 0
bun install, git and security scanner	never returns	the install fails (both already treat the read error as a failure)
Bun.cron	never returns	the promise rejects (already did when the child exited)

The SIGPIPE part is separable. handle_exit on main raises in bun each signal that ended a script. With this PR bun itself can be the cause of a SIGPIPE, because it closes the pipe. Without the new arm bun install ends by SIGPIPE, also for an optional dependency (measured: exit status 141, signal SIGPIPE). The first self-review called the re-raise existing policy. I judge it a direct effect of the close and kept it here. It is 25 lines in lifecycle_script_runner.rs and two tests. If you want it out of this PR, say so and I move it.

Reach.

• The trigger in the tests is an LD_PRELOAD shim. The errnos it stands for are ENOBUFS and ENOMEM under memory pressure, EIO and ECONNRESET.
• bun install on Linux reaches a socket reader only when memfd is not available (BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_MEMFD=1 in the tests). Lifecycle scripts and git spawn with stream: false, so they write to a memfd. macOS always uses the socket.
• Bun.cron always reads crontab -l through a socket. The child blocks only when that output is larger than the socket buffer.
• bun run --filter on main reads the failed pipe again at exit and counts it twice (filter_run.rs:228). A debug build of main stops at assertion failed: self.remaining_fds > 0. With IS_DONE set, the exit path skips the failed reader. So a read that fails once is not read again at exit, as main does by accident.

Open question, not decided here. Each errno that the reader reports ends the reader, also ENOMEM and ENOBUFS, which can pass. A retry for those is a different design. This PR keeps the rule that main has: the reader reports each errno but EAGAIN as an error.

FileReader. node:child_process destroys its stream from inside the rejection of the pending read, and that rejection runs inside on_reader_error. On main that cancel closed the reader, and the on_reader_done that followed dropped the ref that roots the stream. Now the reader is closed before it reports, so the cancel has nothing to close, and on_reader_error drops the ref itself. The old condition (&& !self.done) skipped that. From the code, Windows has this sequence on main: its reader is marked done before it reports.

Not fixed here.

• Windows: WindowsBufferedReader::on_error reports with the pipe open. Windows: a failed read of a child's stdout or stderr leaves the pipe open #44029 has the reason and the plan. Remove libuv on Windows #42819 replaces that reader.
• A failed read of a memfd is dropped by final_buffer: A failed read of a child's memfd output is dropped #44030.
• The stall of a parallel test batch in CI that runner: dump the process tree and stacks of a stalled parallel batch before killing it #41454 instruments has another cause. A scan of CI builds found no failed read of a worker pipe.
• A consumer that pulls again from inside the delivery of the bytes read before the error can read the fd once more. PipeReader: do not read an fd again after a read on it fails #43900 covers that. The two changes touch different lines.
• Found in that review, equal on main and with this PR: child_process.exec after a failed read of stdout never calls back. I found no open PR for it.

Tests. They are a second describe.concurrent block in the existing file. The shim of that file has four new knobs: a failed preadv2 on a socket, a failed preadv2 on a FIFO, a failed epoll_ctl, and a recv that fails on a marked chunk. The tests are Linux only (LD_PRELOAD) and need a C compiler. The cases that fail a preadv2 are skipped on Linux 5.9 and 5.10, where bun reads a pipe with read(2). Cases:

• bun test --parallel: a read that fails in a file, and pipes that fail to register when the worker starts
• bun run --filter with two packages, --parallel, a script that SIGPIPE ends, a failed poll registration (two cases)
• bun install: a lifecycle script, a lifecycle script that SIGPIPE ends, an optional dependency, git, the security scanner (two read positions)
• Bun.cron register and remove
• node:child_process: a stream whose read failed while a pull waited is not left rooted. This case passes on main. It guards the FileReader edit.

Results: a debug build of this PR passes 29 of 29 (13 tests that main has, 16 new). A release build of main 37da174 fails 15 of the 16 new tests, and each of the 15 never returns. bun run rust:check-all passes 12 of 12 targets, which covers the cfg(unix) and cfg(windows) code of this PR. Checked again with main merged at a4f1429, which has #44086: 12 of 12 targets, cargo clippy, and 29 of 29 tests on a debug build.

Mutation checks (one clause reverted at a time, debug build). They ran on earlier commits of this branch. The reader files are the same bytes since then.

Clause	Test that fails
the release in on_error	the cases with a failed read never return
register_poll through on_error	the two "poll registration fails" cases never return
the CLOSE_HANDLE gate	test/js/bun/http/serve-file-slice-read-error.test.ts (double close)
the IS_DONE insert	four cases of "Bun.file().stream() surfaces read() errors" in test/js/web/streams/streams.test.js
the FileReader edit	the rooted stream case reports rooted: 1
the SIGPIPE arm in the lifecycle runner	the SIGPIPE case and the optional case end with bun killed by SIGPIPE

Measurements (release builds of main 37da174 and of this PR at 832f27d, same toolchain, linux-x64).

What	main	this PR
size bun: text, data, bss	80,853,798, 110,424, 1,822,992	same
stripped bun, file size	81,020,488	same
read_once, read, start, done, deinit (nm -S)	975, 258, 178, 238, 168	same
read_loop	2,607	2,653
read_into, register_poll	555, 330	544, 328
on_error	inlined, plus BufferedReaderVTable::on_reader_error 684	694, own symbol. release_on_error 55
Terminal::on_reader_finished	571	489
skip_optional_package	inlined at two sites	823, own symbol
size_of::<PosixBufferedReader>(), new flag bits	96, 0	96, 0
no fault, bun run --filter of echo hi: preadv2, epoll_ctl ADD, DEL	3, 2, 2	3, 2, 2
after the failed read, on that fd: epoll_ctl DEL, close, further preadv2	0, 0, then hang	1, 1, 0

The two binaries differ in content and have the same section sizes. I did not find out why the sizes are equal to the byte, so the symbol sizes are the number to trust. The syscall counts come from an LD_PRELOAD counter, 5 runs each, on the first commit of this branch with the same reader files. strace, perf, valgrind and bloaty are not installed where this ran.

Self-review. One ran on the first commit of this branch, with both halves. It found no concern against the reader change. Its concerns about the text are in this body: what the script sees, the reach, the reason for Windows. A second run on the later state did not complete.

Credit. #34177 first put a close inside on_error. #41420, #41456 and #42150 released the fd in one parent each.

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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/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts

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^{Updated 9:46 AM PT - Sep 26th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 832f27d28838e566277fc9e3ec315be480006c15 passed in Build #120981! 🎉

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Reproduced on bun 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 and on main at 37da174 (linux-x64), with an LD_PRELOAD shim that makes one read fail with EIO.

• bun run --filter '*' big, where the script big writes 8 MB. The third preadv2 on the stdout socket fails. The command never returns: the parent waits in ep_poll with the socket open, and the child is blocked in its write (sock_alloc_send_pskb).
• The same holds for bun run --parallel, bun test --parallel, bun install (lifecycle script, git, security scanner) and Bun.cron. For bun install the fault is on recv, with BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_MEMFD=1.

With this branch each of these commands returns.

Pull request: #44031. The rule that a child with lost output counts as failed is #44060, stacked on this PR.

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Pipe read errors now trigger reader cleanup and can affect lifecycle-script and CLI process outcomes. Fault-injection tests cover read and poll-registration errors across command execution, child-process streams, package installation, security scanning, and cron operations.

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Pipe Read Failure Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reader error cleanup src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/runtime/api/bun/Terminal.rs, src/runtime/api/bun/subprocess/SubprocessPipeReader.rs, src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs	POSIX reader errors release handles before error callbacks. Terminal and subprocess readers use the updated cleanup behavior. FileReader releases its waiting source reference on error.
Lifecycle script failures src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs	Lifecycle scripts record output read failures. Optional scripts use shared skip handling in the described failure cases. Required scripts use a failure exit code when output reading fails, including the specified SIGPIPE case.
CLI failure reporting src/runtime/cli/filter_run.rs	CLI processes retain pipe read errors, report them during finalization, and use RunCommand::script_failure_code to determine status display and failure codes.
Fault-injection harness and regression tests test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts	The test harness injects read and poll-registration errors. Tests check outcomes across Bun commands, child-process streams, lifecycle scripts, security-scanner installs, and cron operations.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬆️ High

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 43d71

Commands and installs could still report success after losing a child process's output. This affects lifecycle scripts, parallel runs and tests. Resolve these cases, or explicitly accept them, before merging.

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🟠 Major · Use output_lost() in the abort and dependency decision. · multi_run.rs:518-522

src/runtime/cli/multi_run.rs:518-522
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Use output_lost() in the abort and dependency decision.

maybe_finish prints "Exited with code 0" as a failure when output_lost() is true. finalize also returns a failure code in that case. The failed computation at Line 518-522 still checks only exited.code != 0. For a script that exits with code 0 after a lost read, the runner does not abort. It then starts group dependents such as the post script, as though the script had succeeded. This contradicts the failure status that the runner reports.

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-        let failed = match &slot.status {
-            Status::Exited(exited) => exited.code != 0,
-            Status::Signaled(_) => true,
-            _ => true,
-        };
+        let failed =
+            RunCommand::script_failure_code(&slot.status, handle.output_lost()).is_some();

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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the FileReader.rs change (dropping && !self.done from the on_reader_error decrement) for a double release of the Source ref — every decrement site clears waiting_for_on_reader_done first and finalize_detach clears it when it sets done, so the ref is dropped at most once. The #[cfg(windows)] gate on self.reader.deinit() in SubprocessPipeReader.rs matches the new POSIX contract (the reader closed its handle in release_on_error before dispatch), so no double close there either.

Extended reasoning...

The change makes PosixBufferedReader close its fd and set IS_DONE before reporting a read error, and adjusts eight consumers (subprocess, terminal, FileReader, run --filter/--parallel, install lifecycle scripts, test --parallel) so lost output fails the command; it touches no auth or crypto surface but is lifecycle/refcount-sensitive native code. Four confirmed findings in the test-parallel worker and lifecycle-script policy paths are posted inline, and a further verified finding was left unposted, so approval is off the table; the note records the two adjacent paths that were examined and found balanced.

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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.

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

• 🟡 src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Worker.rs — nit: a bun test --parallel slot can SIGKILL its own freshly spawned, healthy worker and report it as "exited during startup (failed to read its output: ENOMEM), retrying". The new output_error field is not cleared by the start() errdefer at Worker.rs:103-119 nor by the slot reset in spawn_worker (Coordinator.rs:239-245), so when a read error fires inside a start() that then returns Err, the next start() on that slot reaches Worker.rs:331 with the stale error and kills the new process. Fix: reset output_error wherever the slot's pipes are reset for reuse (the errdefer, spawn_worker, and the respawn in reap_worker), so only an error from the current process can kill it.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: epoll_ctl ADD fails with ENOMEM for the worker's stdout at Worker.rs:166; PosixBufferedReader::start routes that through on_error (src/io/PipeReader.rs:514) and WorkerPipe::on_reader_error (Worker.rs:430-437) stores the error in output_error. Under the same pressure Channel::adopt at Worker.rs:178 (or watch_or_reap at Worker.rs:315) fails, so start() returns Err; the errdefer at Worker.rs:103-119 kills the process and resets ipc, out and err but leaves output_error set. spawn_worker (Coordinator.rs:234-258) returns false and maybe_scale_up (Coordinator.rs:286-291) retries the same slot later; that start() succeeds, and Worker.rs:330-333 sees the stale output_error and SIGKILLs the new worker. reap_worker then takes the error at Coordinator.rs:600, counts a startup failure (Coordinator.rs:663), and prints the retry warning at Coordinator.rs:701-706 naming an errno that belonged to the previous process; two such events hit MAX_STARTUP_FAILURES and the slot is given up. The base branch has no output_error and never kills on this path. Nothing…

  Verification: nit — triggers when, during a scale-up spawn (not the first worker, which Global::exit(1)s at Coordinator.rs:250-252), the stdout/stderr poll registration fails inside Worker::start AND the same start then returns Err (IPC adopt or watch_or_reap failure), after which a later retry on the same slot succeeds. Mechanism verified: - PosixBufferedReader::start… | nit — triggers when a scale-up…

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I re-reviewed the two follow-up commits (cbfbff0, a26c4e4) and found no new bugs; because this changes the shared PosixBufferedReader error contract for every parent and introduces a user-visible policy (a script that exits 0 with lost output now fails the command), a maintainer's look at the policy itself is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The earlier inline points are addressed in the code: Worker::start kills after watch_or_reap, assign_work refuses a worker with output_error, reap_worker reports the errno on the startup and idle paths, and the SIGPIPE arm in lifecycle_script_runner.rs no longer re-raises after read_failed (optional packages are skipped there too).
• release_on_error vs. later parent-side close()/deinit(): PollOrFd::close_impl leaves the handle Closed with fd INVALID, so a second close is a no-op and fires no done callback — consistent with the FileReader ref release change.
• Worker pipes are rebuilt with WorkerPipe::new on every respawn and on the !respawned path, so a stale error cannot leak into the next process in the slot.

Extended reasoning...

The diff touches src/io/PipeReader.rs (the POSIX reader shared by 14 parents) so a read error closes the fd and sets IS_DONE before reporting, plus consumer-side policy in bun run --filter/--parallel, bun test --parallel, bun install lifecycle scripts, Terminal, SubprocessPipeReader and FileReader, with about 550 lines of new Linux-only LD_PRELOAD-driven tests. It touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. The bug hunt ran dry and the follow-up commits visibly address the four inline findings from the earlier run, but the change is large, alters a cross-cutting error contract, and the PR itself asks a maintainer to approve the new failure policy, which is a judgment call rather than a correctness check.

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🟠 Major · Fail bun install when a script loses output but exits 0. · lifecycle_script_runner.rs:962

src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs:962
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail bun install when a script loses output but exits 0.

read_failed is checked here only to identify SIGPIPE. If a required lifecycle script has a read error and then exits 0, Status::Exited(0) follows the success path and the install continues. An optional script in the same state also bypasses skip_optional_package, leaving the package installed. Check read_failed before accepting a zero exit: skip optional packages and fail required scripts. The PR objective requires lifecycle-script read errors to fail bun install.

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Inline comments:
In `@test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts`:
- Line 681: Update both affected parallel-test assertions that currently expect
exitCode 0 after a worker output-read or poll-registration failure. Assert that
the command exits nonzero and that the affected test file is reported as failed.
- Line 703: Extend BIG_WRITER_C with a mode that exits 0 after the injected read
failure, add workspace and postinstall fixture scripts that invoke that mode,
and add tests using runCommandWithFault to assert the command exits nonzero
despite the writer’s successful exit.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs`:
- Line 962: Update the lifecycle script exit-status handling near the
read_failed and SIGPIPE check so read_failed is handled before Status::Exited(0)
is accepted as success. Route optional scripts through skip_optional_package and
fail required scripts when output reading failed; preserve the existing behavior
for successful reads and SIGPIPE handling.

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[claude]

🔴 Users whose child's output read fails now get a command that reports success while the output is silently lost, where the base branch hung. The reader now releases the pipe, so the child gets EPIPE and, if it ignores write errors, exits 0; lifecycle_script_runner.rs:851 fails the install only on exit.code > 0 and never consults read_failed, and filter_run.rs:259 discards the error (let _ = err;) with no message at all. Fix: every parent that lost a child's output must treat it as a failed script (print the errno, exit nonzero even when the child exits 0), which covers the 2 sites listed; the new --filter test asserting stderr: [] should then assert the error line. Same pattern at 2 sites (src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs:851, src/runtime/cli/filter_run.rs:259).

Why this was flagged

A postinstall script's stdout read fails with EIO/ENOMEM on a socket reader (macOS always; Linux with memfd unavailable). release_on_error at src/io/PipeReader.rs:483 closes the pipe, so the script's next write gets EPIPE; a script that ignores write errors (e.g. cmd 2>/dev/null || true, or one that redirects and ignores EPIPE) exits 0. on_reader_error at src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs:382-395 prints error: Failed to read <script> script output from "<package>" due to error 5 EIO and sets read_failed, but handle_exit's Status::Exited arm at :851 checks only exit.code > 0; read_failed is read only in the Status::Signaled arm at :962. The install continues, marks the package Success at :950 and bun exits 0 after having printed an error: line. For bun run --filter, filter_run.rs:258-266 drops the error with let _ = err; and prints nothing; the script's partial output is gone and the exit code is the script's own (0 when it ignores EPIPE). The new test in test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdio-syscall-error.test.ts for --filter asserts stderr: [], certifying the silent…

Verification: normal — conflicts with stated purpose: the PR description says the lifecycle policy "fails the install also when the script exits with code 0" and names a test ("the install of the script that exits with code 0") that does not exist in the diff; the code does not implement it. Trigger: a bun install lifecycle script on a socket reader (macOS always; Linux with memfd unavailable /… | normal…

[robobun]

The facts in this finding are correct, and the body now states them under Downsides: where main hangs, a command can exit 0 with the output cut. The rule that you ask for was part of this PR until a26c4e4. It changes exit codes of bun run and bun install, and that needs a design decision by a maintainer. So it is now #44060, stacked on this PR. That PR has the error line for --filter and the failed install. I leave this thread open for the maintainer who decides if this PR can merge before #44060.

[robobun]

This PR is now the reader change only.

• Until a26c4e4 it also held the rule that a child whose output failed to read counts as failed. That rule changes exit codes of bun run and bun install, and it needs a design decision. It is now cli: count a child whose output failed to read as failed #44060, stacked on this PR.
• The head before the cut is a26c4e4. I can put it back.

Answers to the reviews of 832f27d:

• Windows build (read_failed is only read under cfg(unix)): the build does not fail. The thread has the compile results and two controls.
• bun test --parallel, and scripts that exit 0 after the failed read: this PR keeps the exit codes of main. cli: count a child whose output failed to read as failed #44060 has the rule and its tests.
• One thread stays open on purpose. Where main hangs, this PR can exit 0 with the output cut. The body states that under Downsides, and a maintainer decides if that is acceptable without cli: count a child whose output failed to read as failed #44060.

[robobun]

@robobun wake up!!

[Jarred-Sumner]

@robobun wake up!!

[robobun]

I am here. State of this PR:

• Head 43d71f4, with main merged at a4f1429. There is no conflict. CI runs on that head now.
• main got Say the platform once: real #[cfg] in place of stubs, placeholders, let _ = x and allow(...) #44086 after my earlier push. It touches five files of this PR and changes what the dead_code lint sees. Checked on the new head: 12 of 12 targets compile, cargo clippy passes, and the test file passes 29 of 29 on a debug build.
• It waits for a review. Nothing else blocks it on my side.

Two points need your decision:

1. Where main hangs, this PR alone can exit 0 with the output cut (a script that ignores EPIPE, a test worker). cli: count a child whose output failed to read as failed #44060 turns that into a failure. Can this PR merge before cli: count a child whose output failed to read as failed #44060?
2. The SIGPIPE arm in lifecycle_script_runner.rs (25 lines): does it stay here, or does it move out?

[claude]

Code review found no new issues

No new issues were found in this update; 1 finding from earlier reviews is still open above.

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• 🔴 src/install/lifecycle_script_runner.rs:851 — Users whose child's output read fails now get a command that reports success while the output is silently lost, where t…

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