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Problem

  • With nothing else alive, a JS stream piped into a FileSink on a pipe stops at the first full drain. Un-awaited Bun.write(Bun.stdout, new Response(stream)) delivers 4,194,304 of 8,388,608 bytes, exits with code 0, and never settles.
  • FileSink::on_write (src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs:366) ran its microtask checkpoint before it resumed the pump. The run loop does not count the microtask the pump queues. on_close had no checkpoint.

Fix

  • completion_scope() opens an event-loop scope while a stream is piped in. Its exit is the checkpoint. on_write and on_close open it before they enter JS.
  • Correct because a callback from the loop owes a checkpoint for the JS it enters.
  • Verified: test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts, seven new tests, 0 of 7 on main. Each scope has a test that fails without it. Also 15 more Linux suites.
  • Self-reviewed: 6 concerns raised, 5 addressed as proposed, 1 otherwise (Notes).

Background

  • The pump (readStreamIntoSink) feeds the sink from a JS stream and waits for ready() after a short write. A microtask checkpoint runs queued promise reactions.
  • Considered a drain in the run loop after each poll callback: every loop turn pays. A scope around every FileSink poll callback charges plain writers too.

Downsides

  • A sink written from script pays 7 more instructions per on_write and per on_close. .text grows by 256 bytes.
  • An un-awaited Bun.write whose stream fails now exits with code 1. Main exits 0 in 9 of 10 runs.
  • After proc.unref(), a stream stdin that can always produce now arrives in full. Main cuts it.
Notes

All numbers are from release builds of main ad60a9b and of this branch at 028985b on Linux x64, unless a line says debug.

Repro (no beforeExit listener, no timer, no top-level await):

// bun repro.mjs | (sleep 0.4; wc -c)      expected 8388608, main prints 4194304
const first = new Uint8Array(4 * 1024 * 1024).fill(97);
const chunk = new Uint8Array(64 * 1024).fill(98);
let pulls = 0;
Bun.write(Bun.stdout, new Response(new ReadableStream({
  pull(c) {
    if (++pulls === 1) return c.enqueue(first);
    if (pulls <= 65) return c.enqueue(chunk);
    c.close();
  },
})));

Why main loses the step. The run loop is while vm.is_event_loop_alive() { vm.tick(); vm.auto_tick_active(); } (src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs). auto_tick_active runs the poll callback. on_write drops the loop ref of the poll because the buffer is empty, and src.ready() makes the pump read the next chunk. The chunk steps, close steps and error steps of that read are queued with queueReactionJob (src/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/JSReadRequest.cpp). The callback returns, nothing is alive, and the loop ends before the next tick(). One ref'd timer gives the loop another turn and hides the bug.

The fix itself, 20 runs per shape. A run counts when every byte arrived and the reaction of the promise ran.

Shape main this branch
chunks arrive after the pump parked, to a piped stdout 0 of 20 20 of 20
the same into a FIFO 0 of 20 20 of 20
stream closes while the pump is parked 2 of 20 20 of 20
stream fails while the pump is parked 1 of 20 20 of 20
direct stream, closed with bytes still buffered 0 of 20 20 of 20
small chunk, sink ended against a full socket 0 of 20 20 of 20
direct stream that awaits each flush() (control) 20 of 20 20 of 20

Each scope is needed (debug+ASAN builds, the seven new tests):

Build Failing tests
main 7
this branch 0
this branch without the scope in on_write 5: chunks to stdout, chunks to FIFO, beforeExit count, close, error
this branch without the scope in on_close 1: sink closed with no source parked

Microtask checkpoints and enter() calls per callback, from debug logs (BUN_DEBUG_ALL=1), constant over 3 runs. The column for main is from a debug build of 1313ca6, where FileSink.rs is the same file as on ad60a9b.

Callback main this branch
drain that resumes the pump 1 checkpoint, 1 enter() 1 checkpoint, 2 enter()
drain that leaves bytes in the buffer 0, 0 0, 0
close, a source had parked 1, 1 1, 3
close, no source parked 1, 1 2, 2
sink written from script, drain or close 1, 1 1, 1

On main the one checkpoint of a drain runs before the pump is resumed. On this branch it runs after.

beforeExit emissions for the 8 MiB pump with a listener installed, 10 runs: main 1 to 21, this branch 1 in 10 of 10, Node v26.3.0 1 in 10 of 10.

Cost for a sink written from script. One on_write(65536, Drained) call: 46 instructions on main, 53 on this branch, no call instruction in either. One on_close call: 28 and 35, 2 call instructions in both. Counted with gdb nexti on release builds with symbols, identical over 8 calls. Binary size with size: .text 80,667,862 to 80,668,118, data and bss equal, the file keeps its size of 80,836,168 bytes. on_write grows from 1,302 to 1,530 bytes and on_close from 1,860 to 1,983.

Not measured: write(2) calls that return EAGAIN per drain. strace, perf and valgrind are not installed where I measured, and under gdb catch syscall the writer is so slow that the pipe never fills.

A stream that fails with no handler, 10 runs. Main: exit code 0 and nothing on stderr in 9 runs, error: boom and exit code 1 in 1 run. This branch: error: boom and exit code 1 in 10 runs. The same stream awaited at top level gives error: boom and exit code 1 on both builds.

proc.unref() and a stream stdin, 10 runs per cell. The child starts to read only after the pump has taken the first chunk.

Stream main this branch
can always produce 4,194,304 of 8,388,608 8,388,608
all data queued and closed before the spawn 219,264 in 9 of 10 runs 219,264 in 9 of 10 runs
produces one chunk, then waits on a promise that never settles 4,194,304, parent exits 4,194,304, parent exits
can always produce, no unref() 8,388,608 8,388,608

This change does not touch Writable::unref, which clears the loop ref of the stdin writer also while it holds accepted bytes (second row). What unref() must mean for a writer that owes bytes is a decision for a maintainer and relates to #33533. No test here uses unref().

Sites that this change leaves alone, and why.

Site Reason
on_ready The POSIX writer never calls it. It is the on_writable slot on Windows, where the unfixed build has no failing case.
EndOfFile arm of on_write No test reaches it with a piped stream on POSIX.
Windows settle for a borrowed fd, in end_writer and in the abort handler No failing case on Windows. #42819 rewrites that code.
on_auto_flush It runs inside the deferred task queue, where EventLoop::exit() does not drain. The task that run_pending_later queues just before the resume keeps the loop alive for the next tick().
Other sinks and other poll owners Not examined here.

Other PRs that touch the same lines.

Self-review. Concerns raised and what I did:

  1. A ref guard in on_close repeated FileSink: keep the sink alive until on_close returns #43761 without its tests. The proposal was to stack this PR on FileSink: keep the sink alive until on_close returns #43761. I removed the guard and did not stack: the scope does not read the sink when it ends, so it does not need the guard. FileSink: keep the sink alive until on_close returns #43761 has merged since.
  2. A cfg(windows) scope in end_writer had no failing test and sits in code that Remove libuv on Windows #42819 rewrites. Removed.
  3. A scope and a guard in on_ready, and an EndOfFile clause in on_write, had no failing test. Removed.
  4. A gate on VM::is_entered() had no failing test. I built the change without the gate and ran a script that closes the sink inside the Bun.write call with a microtask already queued. The order of the microtask did not change, because a script frame already runs inside an entered scope. Removed.
  5. The predicate also matched a stdin: "pipe" sink that script never read, and shell pipes. It now tests only for a piped stream.
  6. The tests would pass on unfixed code once Report a loop turn's rejections before the loop-alive check, and keep the exit code when an 'exit' listener throws #42032 lands. Added the test that counts beforeExit.

Platforms. On Windows Server 2019 x64 a debug build of main passes every portable shape, also with a first chunk of 64 MiB and of 256 MiB where the child waits 0.6 to 2.3 s for the reader. So on Windows the five portable tests guard against a regression only. The first revision of the FIFO test read its end with Bun.file(fd).bytes(). On macOS that read never finished, 8 of 8 attempts, although the child had exited. The test now reads with read(2) in a poll with a deadline, and passes on macOS.

Suites on the debug build of this branch, 60 s per test, all pass: filesink (77 after the merge with main), bun-write (86), spawn-stdin-readable-stream (4 files, 55), spawn-streaming-stdin, spawn-stdin-destroy, spawn-stdin-pipe-fd-leak, readablestream-helpers, streams (624), compression, sync-pull-fast-path, native-source-onclose-leak, direct-readable-stream, bunshell (436).


no test proof · iteration 4 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts

…allback

A JS stream piped into a sink on a pipe is pumped by microtasks: the next
chunk, the stream's close and its error each arrive as one. When the reader
drains the pipe, the sink's writable callback resumes the parked pump or
closes the sink. The event loop makes that call, so no script frame runs
the microtasks it queues. With nothing else alive the process exited with
them queued: the rest of the stream was never written and the promise of
Bun.write never settled.

on_write opens an event-loop scope before it settles the pending write and
resumes a parked source, and on_close opens one before it closes the source
and settles the pipe's promise. The scope's exit is the checkpoint. Both
apply only while a stream is piped in.
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Reproduced on main (ad60a9b, Linux x64) with a script that has no beforeExit listener, no timer and no top-level await:

// bun repro.mjs | (sleep 0.4; wc -c)      expected 8388608, main prints 4194304
const first = new Uint8Array(4 * 1024 * 1024).fill(97);
const chunk = new Uint8Array(64 * 1024).fill(98);
let pulls = 0;
Bun.write(Bun.stdout, new Response(new ReadableStream({
  pull(c) {
    if (++pulls === 1) return c.enqueue(first);
    if (pulls <= 65) return c.enqueue(chunk);
    c.close();
  },
})));

The seven new tests in test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts fail on a build of main and pass on this branch.

The FIFO test read its end with Bun.file(fd).bytes() and timed out on
macOS. It now reads the non-blocking end it holds until the writer is
gone. The stream carries 16 chunks after the first in place of 64.
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs Outdated
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs Outdated
on_ready and on_auto_flush keep the code of main. The change is the scope
in on_write around the settle and the resume, and the scope in on_close.
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FileSink now enters an event-loop completion scope during selected write and close handling. New regression tests cover stream pumping under backpressure and settlement across source and sink completion cases.

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FileSink stream completion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Completion scope during writes and close
src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
on_write calculates when a write resumes and enters a completion scope before settling a pending operation when a source pull is pending. on_close also enters the scope.
Stream pumping regression coverage
test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
Subprocess tests cover later chunks after backpressure, source close or error, sink close, FIFO output, beforeExit counts, and buffered data that drains later.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 64d50

Backpressured pipe writes can still exit before all output is written, and Windows borrowed-descriptor writes may not run completion callbacks before exit. Resolve these remaining completion paths before merging.

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

Comment thread test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
Comment thread test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
Comment thread src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
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# Conflicts:
#	src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs
#	test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts
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Updated 5:29 PM PT - Sep 29th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit 64d50d92437984a14fd389eaaea9dbc3fdbc7868 passed in Build #121712! 🎉


🧪   To try this PR locally:

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

The two test nits from my earlier pass (FIFO poll deadline, tempDir instead of tmpdirSync) are addressed in d752f21. Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the scope's drop order in both callbacks: _entered is declared after the RefPtr::init_ref guard, so the checkpoint runs before the guard can drop the last ref, and EnteredEventLoop only holds a Copy of the loop handle, so it never touches the sink on drop. The nested entered() inside run_pending does not double-drain (exit() only drains at count 1), and on the mini loop enter/exit are no-ops.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds an event-loop enter/exit scope to FileSink::on_write and on_close (18 lines of unsafe Rust in src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs) so microtasks queued by a piped JS stream's pump are drained when the writer callback comes from the loop, plus seven concurrent subprocess tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface. It is not approvable automatically because the code sits in callbacks that can free this and interacts with microtask-checkpoint ordering, which a maintainer should weigh; the latest commit addressed the prior test feedback and the remaining inline finding is a test-strength nit.

Comment thread test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts Outdated
Each pump test now checks that the bytes which arrived are the bytes the
stream has at those offsets. The first chunk is 2 MiB, which is still
larger than the pipe and socket buffers it has to overflow.

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🟠 Major · Enter a completion scope before resuming a piped source. · FileSink.rs:486-498

src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs:486-498
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Enter a completion scope before resuming a piped source.

PipeWriter forwards readiness directly to FileSink::on_ready. For a backpressured JavaScript stream, SourceHandle::ready resumes the JavaScript controller and queues the next pump step. This callback has no completion_scope(), so the process can exit with output unwritten and the un-awaited Bun.write unsettled.

Suggested fix
         unsafe {
             if (*this).source_pending_pull.replace(false) {
+                let _entered = (*this).completion_scope();
                 let mut src = *(*this).source.get();
                 src.ready(None, None);
             }
         }
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Review comment at @src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs around lines 486 - 498:
In FileSink::on_ready, enter a completion scope before calling
SourceHandle::ready when resuming a pending pull; keep the scope active through
the ready call so queued stream work is tracked until completion.
🟡 Minor · Checkpoint the source after deferred on_auto_flush execution. · FileSink.rs:968-976

src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs:968-976
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Checkpoint the source after deferred on_auto_flush execution.

A backpressured ByteStream sets source_pending_pull and registers the deferred flusher while buffered data remains. on_auto_flush can then drain that buffer completely and call src.ready(None, None) from inside DeferredTaskQueue. That call can queue the next stream pull or the Bun.write settlement reaction. The deferred-task drain does not run another microtask checkpoint afterward, so the process can exit with the write incomplete.

The added no-beforeExit fixtures detect this symptom through their full-byte and settled-promise assertions. They do not distinguish on_auto_flush from the other source-resumption callbacks. Ensure that this callback schedules a checkpoint after the deferred queue, or defers src.ready(None, None) until after that queue returns.

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Review comment at @src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs around lines 968 - 976:
Update the deferred `on_auto_flush` source-resumption path so that when it calls
`src.ready(None, None)` for a pending pull, a microtask checkpoint runs after
the deferred task queue completes; alternatively, defer the `ready` call until
after that queue returns. Preserve the existing pending-pull check and
resumption behavior.
🟡 Minor · Enter the completion scope before settling a piped write. · FileSink.rs:557-563

src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs:557-563
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Enter the completion scope before settling a piped write.

On Windows, Bun.write(fd, readableStream) marks the supplied descriptor as non-owned. When the stream ends, end_writer() calls settle_stream_done() without entering completion_scope(). The Bun.write promise can settle without a microtask checkpoint, so its reactions can remain unprocessed if process exit follows immediately.

Put the scope at the shared settlement boundary. This covers end_writer() and the abort-owner caller without changing the owned-path behavior.

Suggested fix
     fn settle_stream_done(&self) {
         let Some(promise) = self.pipe.get().take_done() else {
             return;
         };
+        let _entered = self.completion_scope();
         // SAFETY: `take_done` returned a live `JSPromise` cell; the stack keeps it alive for this call.
         let promise = unsafe { &mut *promise };
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Review comment at @src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs around lines 557 - 563:
Update settle_stream_done to enter completion_scope before settling the promise,
covering both end_writer and the abort-owner caller while leaving the owned path
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Review comments at @src/runtime/webcore/FileSink.rs:
- Around line 486-498: In FileSink::on_ready, enter a completion scope before
calling SourceHandle::ready when resuming a pending pull; keep the scope active
through the ready call so queued stream work is tracked until completion.
- Around line 968-976: Update the deferred `on_auto_flush` source-resumption
path so that when it calls `src.ready(None, None)` for a pending pull, a
microtask checkpoint runs after the deferred task queue completes;
alternatively, defer the `ready` call until after that queue returns. Preserve
the existing pending-pull check and resumption behavior.
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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

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On the three points outside the diff in the latest CodeRabbit review. I checked each against the code at 64d50d9.

  1. on_ready has no scope. Only Windows code calls it: both Parent::on_writable call sites in src/io/PipeWriter.rs are in #[cfg(windows)] writer types, and the POSIX streaming writer never calls on_ready. So this cannot cut a pipe write on POSIX. On Windows I found no failing case: a debug build of main passes every portable shape of the new tests, also with a first chunk of 64 MiB and of 256 MiB under backpressure. An earlier revision of this PR had a scope here, and I removed it because no test fails without it.

  2. on_auto_flush resumes inside the deferred task queue. run_pending_later() runs just before that resume and queues a task on the JS loop every time (or one is already queued). A queued task keeps the loop alive, and the next tick() runs it and drains microtasks, so the step that the resume queued does run. A scope at this site would do nothing, because EventLoop::exit() does not drain inside the deferred task queue.

    I forced this path to check it. The sink writes into a FIFO, the first write is short by 1 KiB, and the script reads 4 KiB from the FIFO in the same tick, so the auto-flush writes the tail and resumes the pump. The debug log shows no poll callback before the next write of the pump. The stream completes and the promise resolves in 5 of 5 runs, on main and on this branch.

  3. settle_stream_done on a borrowed fd. It has three callers. on_close has the scope. The other two are #[cfg(windows)] blocks, in end_writer and in the abort handler. On POSIX the abort handler closes the writer, which reaches on_close. So this is the same Windows-only site as point 1.

Points 1 and 3 are in the PR notes under "Sites that this change leaves alone". I will not add a scope there without a test that fails without it, and I cannot run Windows at the moment.

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@Jarred-Sumner the fix that thread asks for is in the merged commit. 64d50d9 made the six pump tests compare the bytes that arrive with the stream at those offsets (the intact field), on the stdout path and on the FIFO path. The hunk under your comment shows the revision before that commit.

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