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A package bunx installs can ship a native addon whose library search path (DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, LC_RPATH) climbs out of the package with `..`. The dynamic loader resolves those paths and loads what it finds. The cache sat one component below the shared temp directory, so the climb reached the temp directory itself, where any other local user can create the directory the path names. Root the cache at `<install cache>/.bunx-<uid>` (mode 0700), the same directory `bun install` resolves from BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR, BUN_INSTALL, XDG_CACHE_HOME or HOME. Every directory above it belongs to the user or to root, so the climb is safe at any depth. When no install cache resolves, or it cannot be created, the root is `<temp dir>/.bunx-<uid>`, also 0700. The ownership checks now start at that root instead of at the first component below the temp directory, and `bun pm cache rm` clears and counts both roots plus the per-package directories an older bun wrote straight into the temp directory. Co-authored-by: Jarred Sumner <jarred@jarredsumner.com>
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Walkthroughbunx selects a per-user cache root, checks paths against that root, and can use a temp-directory fallback. Cache removal covers nested and legacy temp-directory layouts. bunx installs skip ancestor workspace-root discovery. Changesbunx cache management
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src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs— Users whose projects live outside HOME but who have a malformed or workspace-bearing~/package.json(or one underBUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR) now get every coldbunxinstall failing, which the base did not. The childbun addis spawned with cwd under the cache root at bunx_command.rs:1526; PackageManager.rs:1676-1720 walks every ancestor, openspackage.jsonRDWR and parses it with?, so a parse error in$HOME/package.jsonaborts the install. On the base the ancestors were only<tmp>and/. Fix: run the bunx child install without the workspace-root walk (pass a flag such as--cwd-rooted/no-workspace mode set under BUN_INTERNAL_BUNX_INSTALL) so files outside the cache dir never shape or fail the install.Why this was flagged
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bunx <pkg>(no cached binary) by a user with apackage.jsonin$HOME,$HOME/.bun, or any ancestor of the configured cache dir that is malformed, or that declaresworkspaceswhose globs (e.g.**) match the new.bunx-<uid>/<pkg>@ latestpath. bunx createspackage.jsonin the package dir at bunx_command.rs:1470-1478, so step 1 of the walk stops there, butcreated_package_jsonis false so the workspace scan at PackageManager.rs:1674-1829 still runs foradd(should_chdir_to_root is true for everything but Link). It opens each ancestorpackage.jsonRDWR at :1687 andparse_package_json(...)?at :1718 propagates a syntax error, sobun addexits nonzero and bunx reports 'bunx failed to install'. On the base the cwd was<tmp>/bunx-<uid>-<pkg>, whose only ancestors are the temp dir and/. Population: users with CI or workspace repos outside HOME and a stray~/package.json, and anyone setting BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR inside a monorepo with broad workspace globs. Remedy: disable the ancestor walk for the internal bunx install.Verification: src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:1526 spawns
bun addwith cwdbunx_cache_dir, which after this PR is<cache_dir>/.bunx-<uid>/<pkg>. The ancestor walk at src/install/PackageManager.rs:1676-1829 parses each<parent>/package.jsonwithparse_package_json(...)?(:1717-1720), soinitfails on malformed JSON. On the base the cwd was<tmp>/bunx-<uid>-<pkg>, so the walk only visited<tmp>and/. -
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test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts— Developers running these two tests on a host with umask 002 (Debian/Ubuntu user-private-groups default) get a failure the base test did not have. test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts:1291 creates.bunx-<uid>and the package dir with mkdir recursive (0777 & ~umask = 0775) but :1292 chmods only the leaf; bunx then rejects the group-writable.bunx-<uid>and the "legitimate case" assertion at :1295 fails. Same at :1348-1349 for the scoped variant. Fix: give every component the test creates below the install cache an explicit mode (chmod.bunx-<uid>and the leaf to 0o755), or create.bunx-<uid>with 0o700 as bunx does, so the pass case does not depend on the host umask.Why this was flagged
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bun bd test test/cli/install/bunx.test.tson a Linux host whose umask is 002. The test at test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts:1291 runsmkdir(cacheRoot, { recursive: true })where cacheRoot is<BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR>/.bunx-<uid>/<pkg>@ latest, so.bunx-<uid>is created 0775; :1292 chmods only the leaf to 0o755. bunx's ensure_cache_root (src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:719) sees the root exists and is_trusted_cache_root (:614, :609-613) lstats.bunx-<uid>, finds S_IWGRP set, and exec prints "refusing to use bunx cache directory" (:1160) and exits 1. The assertion at :1295expect(err).not.toContain("refusing to use bunx cache directory")fails; :1348-1349 and :1352 fail the same way for the scoped test. On the base branch these tests created a single directory<TMPDIR>/bunx-<uid>-<pkg>@ latestand chmodded it explicitly, so they were umask-independent. Real bunx is unaffected because it creates the root with mkdirat 0o700 (:729) and package dirs via mkdir_recursive_at 0o755 (src/sys/lib.rs:2398); only the test's own mkdir inherits the umask.Verification: test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts:1291 mkdir recursive creates
.bunx-<uid>and the leaf 0775 under umask 002; :1292chmodSync(cacheRoot, 0o755)fixes only the leaf.is_trusted_dir(src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:609-613) requires(st.st_mode & (S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)) == 0, so bunx exits 1 and :1295 fails. On the base branch recursive mkdir created only the leaf, which passed under any umask.
…en it is not usable Review of the first commit found four defects. The new test linked its fixture with `-Wl,-soname` and undefined napi symbols, which Apple ld rejects, so it failed on macOS instead of skipping. `$ORIGIN` in `DT_RUNPATH` is what it exercises, so it runs on Linux only now. The install bunx spawns has its own package.json in its own cache directory. The ancestor walk that looks for a workspace root reached the user's cache and home, so a malformed `package.json` there failed every cold bunx. The walk is skipped for that install. `EEXIST` from the root's `mkdirat` counted as failure, so when two cold bunx runs raced, the loser silently installed into the temp directory. It counts as success. The root was created during path resolution, so `bunx` wrote into the user's home even when it ran a binary from `$PATH` or from a local `node_modules`. It is created on the install path, and the temp directory is taken there if that fails. A root that exists but belongs to another user, or that a filesystem reports as world-writable, now falls back to the temp directory instead of failing every run with advice the sticky bit forbids. The refusal names `BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR` when the root is in the temp directory. Tests: a module another user puts in the temp directory is not loaded (`require` walks the same way with no addon), a malformed ancestor package.json does not fail the install, and no directory is created when bunx does not install.
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🟡 Minor · Count scoped bunx packages individually. · package_manager_command.rs:443-460
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCount scoped bunx packages individually.
package_fmtpreserves the slash in names such as@scope/one. Therefore, two packages under the same scope share one direct@scopeentry. Both cache-counting paths count that scope directory as one package, although deletion removes all packages below it. The command can report fewer cached packages than it removed.Suggested fix
// The bunx root inside the install cache goes away with the // tree deleted below, so count it before that. let mut deleted: usize = 0; + let count_bunx_packages = |root_dir: &Dir| { + let mut packages = 0; + let mut root_iter = bun_sys::iterate_dir(root_dir.fd()); + while let Ok(Some(entry)) = root_iter.next() { + let name = entry.name.slice_u8(); + if name.first() == Some(&b'@') { + if let Ok(scope_dir) = root_dir.open_at(name) { + let mut scope_iter = bun_sys::iterate_dir(scope_dir.fd()); + while let Ok(Some(_)) = scope_iter.next() { + packages += 1; + } + scope_dir.close(); + } + } else { + packages += 1; + } + } + packages + }; let bunx_root_name = crate::cli::bunx_command::cache_root_name(); if !cache_dir.is_cwd_fallback { let mut root = strings::without_trailing_slash(&cache_dir.path).to_vec(); root.push(Path::SEP); root.extend_from_slice(&bunx_root_name); if let Ok(root_dir) = Dir::open(&root) { - let mut root_iter = bun_sys::iterate_dir(root_dir.fd()); - while let Ok(Some(_)) = root_iter.next() { - deleted += 1; - } + deleted += count_bunx_packages(&root_dir); root_dir.close(); } } @@ // The root holds one entry per package, the flat // layout one directory per package. let count = if is_cache_root { - let mut packages: usize = 0; - if let Ok(root_dir) = tmp_dir.open_at(name) { - let mut root_iter = bun_sys::iterate_dir(root_dir.fd()); - while let Ok(Some(_)) = root_iter.next() { - packages += 1; - } - root_dir.close(); - } - packages + count_bunx_packages(&tmp_dir) } else { 1 };🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things: bun pm cache rm resolves the install cache through the same fetch_cache_directory_path(env, None) call bunx uses and clears both the new .bunx-<uid> root and the old bunx-<uid>-* entries, so the two sides stay in sync; and the lstat-then-mkdir window in cache_root_state/create_cache_root is closed by is_trusted_opened_cache_dir, which re-verifies the opened fd and every component up to root_parent_len before the install writes anything.
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The change relocates the bunx package cache from the shared temp dir to a 0700 per-user root under the install cache, touching bunx_command.rs, the cache-rm path in package_manager_command.rs, the workspace-root walk in PackageManager.rs, and tests. Six verified findings are posted inline, including a Windows compile break and several regressions for users with unwritable or foreign-owned HOME, so a human look is needed regardless of this note.
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… in the fallback Review of the previous commit found six defects. Windows did not compile: the fallback called `temp_cache_root`, which exists on unix only. The fallback is unix-only now, as the root it falls back from is. A root bunx cannot stat (EACCES from a HOME under a directory it cannot enter, ENOTDIR from a HOME that is a file) counted as not created yet, so every run was refused. Only ENOENT means that. Anything else sends bunx to the temp directory. Where the install cache root can never be created, the warm lookup probed it, missed, and installed again on every run. A missing root now defers to the temp root when a previous run already made that one. The fallback rebuilt PATH from the PATH bunx started with, dropping the node shim directory and every local `node_modules/.bin`. It keeps the configured tail. `BUN_INTERNAL_BUNX_INSTALL` marks the install bunx spawns, and since the previous commit it skips the workspace walk. It stayed in the environment of the tool bunx then runs, so a scaffolder's own `bun install` inside a monorepo lost its workspace root. It is removed once the install has run. A root is verified after it is created: one that a filesystem reports as writable by others is treated like one that could not be created. If the temp root cannot be created either, bunx refuses instead of going on. bunx warns on stderr when it is pushed into the shared temp directory.
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The last two pushes address the points from my earlier passes: the temp-root fallback block is now #[cfg(unix)], create_cache_root tolerates EEXIST, the fallback rebuilds PATH from the tail that keeps the node shim and local .bin dirs, non-ENOENT lstat errors classify as Foreign, BUN_INTERNAL_BUNX_INSTALL is removed before run_binary, the root is created only on the install path, and the rpath test is Linux-gated with a local registry.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the 0777-reporting mount case (drvfs, CIFS without uid=): it now takes the temp root with a warning instead of refusing, so it is no longer a hard failure, though the warning repeats on every run for those users.
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The diff reroots the bunx package cache from the shared temp directory into a 0700 <install cache>/.bunx-<uid> directory, with a temp-dir fallback, and mirrors the layout in bun pm cache rm; this is security-sensitive path handling with ownership checks and a fail-open fallback to a shared directory. Three verified findings are posted inline (sticky temp-root selection, warm-cache misses inside the install cache, and a misattributed note), so the change still needs the author's attention; the prior-review items were confirmed addressed by reading the current code rather than from the timeline.
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…root capture later runs The cache tree now sits on the filesystem of the install cache, so its files are hard links into it. The staleness check read the mtime of the bin through its link, which a reinstall never moves: once a package was a day old, every `bunx <pkg>` reinstalled it and asked the registry, and failed with no network. The same happened before this PR wherever the temp directory and the cache shared a filesystem. The age is read from the package.json bunx rewrites before each install, the file the second staleness check already uses. A missing install cache root deferred to the temp root when that one already existed, so a single run without a usable cache directory (cron, a service unit, `env -i`) sent every later run to the shared temp directory, without a word. A missing root is now always the root. The temp directory is taken only by the run that cannot create it. bunx warns when it installs into the shared temp directory, whatever sent it there, and the refusal note no longer says another user owns a directory that may have failed for some other reason. Tests: a day-old package is reinstalled once and then served from the cache, and a run with a HOME does not reuse the temp root an earlier run without one left behind.
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src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs— Users whosebunx <pkg>refresh fails once (registry 5xx, offline) now silently get the day-old binary on every run for the next 24 hours, where the base retried the install on the next run.install_is_staleat src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:831-848 reads the mtime of the package.json that :1562-1570 truncates to{}before the install spawn, so a failedbun addstill leaves a fresh timestamp and the next run's probe at :1346 reports the cache as not stale. Fix: stamp the age marker only after the install succeeds, e.g. touch or rewrite package.json (or write a marker file) after the exit-code check at :1681, so the staleness clock measures the last successful install and a failed attempt is retried next run.Why this was flagged
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bunx create-foomore than 24h after the last install while the registry is briefly down or the machine is offline. The warm probe at src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:1346 callsinstall_is_stale(bunx_cache_dir), which returns true, so exec reaches the install path.bun_sys::File::create(bunx_install_dir.fd, b"package.json", true)at :1562-1566 truncates package.json to{}\n, giving it a fresh mtime, then the spawnedbun addfails and :1681-1683 exits nonzero. The package's node_modules and.binsymlink are untouched. On the next runbun_which::whichfinds the old bin andinstall_is_staleat :397-403 computestimestamp() - mtime(package.json)which is now seconds, so is_stale is false and :1370 runs the day-old binary with no warning. On the base the age came frombun_sys::stat(destination)on the bin itself, which a failed install never touched, so the next run retried the install. Nothing records whether the last install completed.Verification: Trigger:
bunx <pkg>more than 24h after the last install, whilebun addfails (registry 5xx, offline). src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:1562-1570 writes{}\nto package.json before thebun addspawn at :1613; on nonzero exit :1681-1683 exits with the old bin in place. The next run'sinstall_is_stale(:831-848) sees a fresh mtime and :1370 runs the stale binary; the base stat'd the bin itself (base :1123-1129), so it retried.
…h the temp-directory warning Where the install cache root can never be created (a read-only home, a service account, `HOME=/nonexistent`), bunx picked it, looked there for a cached binary, missed, and only then fell back to the temp root while installing. So every run installed again and asked the registry, and a run with no network failed. The picker now asks, without writing, whether the nearest existing ancestor of the root is writable. If it is not, the temp root is the root from the start, and a warm run finds what the cold run installed. A home that can be written never takes the temp root, whatever an earlier run left there. On macOS bunx replaces itself with the tool (`execve`), which drops what is still in the stderr buffer. The warning that bunx installs into the shared temp directory was lost there, and the test that reads it failed on both macOS lanes. It is flushed. Test: with a home of mode 0555, the second run asks the registry for nothing and the third runs with the registry stopped. It cannot be set up as root, so it skips there.
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🟡 nit (optional): new tests create HOME and tarball directories with tmpdirSync(), which CLAUDE.md forbids in favour of tempDir from harness, and nothing removes them. sweep:tmpdirSync\(\) (new sites in this diff only; the file's pre-existing setup() uses are outside the PR). Example: test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts:1935 const home = tmpdirSync(); leaves a bun.test.* tree holding a full .bun/install/cache behind on every run. Fix: use using home = tempDir("bunx-...", {}) (and String(home)) at each new site so the directory is removed when the test ends, as the read-only-home test at :1953 already does.
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The PR adds eleven tmpdirSync() calls to test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts (for example :1400, :1484, :1555, :1769, :1849, :1935 for env.HOME, and :1418, :1493, :1620, :1711, :1835 for tarball directories). tmpdirSync is fs.mkdtempSync under os.tmpdir() (test/harness.ts:1486-1488) with no cleanup, while root CLAUDE.md says to use tempDir from harness and never tmpdirSync or fs.mkdtempSync. Each HOME created this way ends up holding .bun/install/cache/.bunx-<uid>/<pkg>@ latest/node_modules, so every run of the file leaves several populated trees in the system temp directory; on the base branch the file's own setup() already does this for three directories per test, so this adds to an existing leak rather than creating a new class of failure. The sibling test at :1953 uses using home = tempDir(...), which is the shape the rule asks for.
Verification: nit. Triggers on every run of the new tests in test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts. The diff adds exactly eleven tmpdirSync() calls, including const home = tmpdirSync(); at :1935. Harness tmpdirSync (test/harness.ts:1486-1488) has no removal, and root CLAUDE.md:101 says "Do not use tmpdirSync or fs.mkdtempSync". Nothing in the new tests removes these directories. Nothing fails.
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bunxkept its cache one component below the shared temp directory. Three resolvers walk from a file toward its ancestors, and from that cache the first ancestor outside it is the temp directory, where any local user can create files.DT_RUNPATHclimbing with.., as@img/sharp-linux-x64does),require(node_modulesin every ancestor), and bun's tsconfig lookup (paths, under--bun)./tmp: another user's library, module, orpathstarget ran as the user who typedbunx. The ownership checks inbunx_command.rscannot see it: nothing is written inside the cache root.Fix
<install cache>/.bunx-<uid>, mode 0700, fromBUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR,BUN_INSTALL,XDG_CACHE_HOMEorHOME. Every ancestor belongs to the user or to root.bunxinstalls. Where it cannot be created or is not private, the root is<temp dir>/.bunx-<uid>, andbunxwarns when it installs there.package.jsonbunx writes.bunx.test.ts(two planted-file tests fail on the merge base),bun-pm.test.ts.Background
~/.npm/_npx/<hash>: the same walks meet only the user's and root's directories.requireand tsconfig walk to/at any depth.Downsides
bunxuses it when no cache directory is usable (HOMEunset or read-only, a directory another user owns). Closing it needs a base with no shared ancestor, or a refusal. Not in this PR.$TMPDIR/bunx-<uid>-*caches are not read again: one reinstall per package.newfstatat, +1getuid. Release.text+3328 bytes at the first commit, not measured again since.Notes
Reproduction (two real uids, default
/tmpat root:root 1777, release builds of the merge base and the first commit)A fixture package ships
lib/addon.node, a napi addon whoseRUNPATHis$ORIGIN/plus one to eight..plusx/lib, needinglibfoo.so, which the package does not ship.planterowns/tmp/x/lib/libfoo.so.victimrunsbunx bunx-rpath-fixturethrough a local registry.PLANTED_CONSTRUCTOR_RAN uid=1000 euid=1000, then{"answer":666,"error":null}. The cache is/tmp/bunx-1000-bunx-rpath-fixture@latest.{"answer":null,"error":"ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED"}. The cache is/home/victim/.bun/install/cache/.bunx-1000.The module door needs no addon: a CLI with a node shebang that probes an optional dependency (
try { require("zz-optional") } catch {}) loads<temp dir>/node_modules/zz-optional/index.json the merge base. Both shapes are tests inbunx.test.ts, with$TMPDIRstanding in for the shared directory so they run under one uid.What picks the root (unix; Windows keeps
%TEMP%\\bunx-<uid>-<pkg>,GetTempPathis per-user)ENOENT), and its nearest existing ancestor is writableHOME=/nonexistent)EACCES,ENOTDIR)The picker reads and keeps no memory: a temp root left by an earlier run does not attract a run whose home can be written. bunx warns whenever it installs into the temp root. If the temp root itself is unusable, bunx refuses and names
BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR, because a sticky directory does not let its victim remove the entry.A home that cannot be written: measured as a non-root user with a home of mode 0555 and a local registry that counts requests. The three runs ask for 2, 0, 0, and a fourth run succeeds with the registry stopped. That is what the released bun does. One commit earlier the picker chose the home root, missed, and installed again on each run (2, 1, 1, then a failure with no network).
How far a climb goes in the fallback: from
<temp dir>/.bunx-<uid>/<pkg>@<ver>/node_modules/<pkg>/lib, five..reach the temp directory (seven when both the package and the dependency are scoped). On the merge base it is four (six).requireand the tsconfig lookup are not bounded by depth at all.The staleness check: the cache tree is now on the filesystem of the install cache, so its files are hard links into it and a reinstall never moves their mtime. Reading the age off the bin made every run after the first day reinstall and ask the registry. A local registry that counts requests shows 1, 1, 1 for the three runs after every cached file is aged two days, and 1, 0, 0 with the age read from
package.json. The released bun shows 1, 1, 1 as well wherever the temp directory and the cache share a filesystem.The corpus behind the padding decision: 449 packages that ship prebuilt
.node/.so/.dylibfiles, 709 loadable files, 132 with anRPATH/RUNPATH. Per file the deepest leading..count is 0 for 121 files, 1 for 6, and 5 for 5, all sharp variants.Fixed during review
temp_cache_rootexists on unix only). The fallback is unix-only now.package.jsonin the home failed every coldbunx, because the spawned install walked ancestors for a workspace root.bunxruns raced on the root'smkdirat, and the loser installed into the temp directory.bunxcreated the root on every run, including ones that did not install.PATHwithout the node shim and the project'snode_modules/.bin.BUN_INTERNAL_BUNX_INSTALLreached the tool, so a scaffolder's ownbun installin a monorepo lost its workspace root.EACCES,ENOTDIR) counted as not created yet and refused every run.Not changed
[install] cache.dirin bunfig andcache=in.npmrcdo not move the bunx root.bun pm cache rmresolves the cache the same env-only way, so the two agree.bun pm cache rmcounts one package per top-level entry, so packages of one scope count as one, as before.bunxas root with another user'sHOMEwrites a root-owned.bunx-0into that user's cache. The spawned install already did that to the cache.What ran on the last commit: on Linux, the seven tests this PR adds or that guard the fix, as root, and the three tests of the picker and the age as a non-root user, all pass.
rust:check-alllast ran to the end two commits earlier (12 of 12). Everything added since is#[cfg(unix)]and was checked by reading. The host this was developed on stayed above a load average of 700 and was recreated several times, so the whole file was not run again locally on this commit.Measurement:
straceis not installable in this container, so the syscall counts come from a ptrace counter over a fullbunxrun (cold, warm,--no-install), debug builds of the merge base and the first commit. Cold run there: +3newfstatat, +3openat, +1mkdirat. Binary size fromsizeon release builds of both.Related: #44083 (open) pads the same class for
bun build --compile. #41915 refuses a temp directory another user owns and accepts a root-owned sticky/tmpon purpose, so it does not cover this. #41797 (draft) would make the tsconfig lookup skip a world-writable directory, which bears on the fallback. #41226 (open) touches the same staleness check. #31447 is credited in the first commit.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm.test.ts