Resolve a module specifier once: fix a segfault in require() of an ES module, and require() with a plugin's namespace

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What does this PR do?

A module specifier is resolved once. It was resolved up to three times, each time from the answer before, which is harmless only when the answer about an answer is the same answer. With a symlink, a path from Module._resolveFilename or a plugin's onResolve, it is not.

A segfault

// esm.mjs:  export const who = "esm";
// main.cjs:
const Module = require("node:module");
Module._resolveFilename = () => __dirname + "/./esm.mjs";   // or a symlink, "//", "/sub/../", "./esm.mjs"
console.log(require("anything").who);

panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0x18

An ordinary plugin that require() cannot use

build.onResolve({ filter: /\.virtual$/ }, ({ path }) => ({ path: "from " + basename(path), namespace: "virtual" }));
build.onLoad({ filter: /.*/, namespace: "virtual" }, ({ path }) => ({ contents: "export const from = " + JSON.stringify(path), loader: "js" }));

require("./x.virtual");   // error: Cannot find package 'virtual:from x.virtual'
import "./x.virtual";     // works

The wrong module: with an onResolve that sends a to b and b to c, import("./a.mjs") loads d, an import statement and require() load c.

Who resolved again

1. JavaScriptCore's loader. loadModule(key) fetches and registers a record under key, then goes through hostLoadImportedModule, which calls resolve(key). loadAndEvaluateModule(name) and requestImportModule(name) each call resolve once before that. For its own hosts that is harmless: the jsc shell and WebCore turn an absolute path or URL into the same URL every time. The one thing of theirs that is not idempotent is the import map, and for that the hook has a parameter: useImportMap is true for an import statement and for import(), false for the name or key of a top-level load. WebCore, when it is false, parses the URL and returns. Bun's hook did not read it.

When the answer about a key was another key, a second record was registered under that, and that one was linked and evaluated. functionEsmLoadSync then looked up the key it had asked for, found the first record, never linked, and asked it for its namespace.

2. import(). moduleLoaderImportModule resolved the specifier and handed the loader the answer, and requestImportModule resolves what it is handed. WebCore's hands over the specifier and the referrer.

3. The transpiler. Linker::link put every import record that is not a dynamic import through onResolve while the file was transpiled, and printed the answer into the code. When the code ran, the loader or require() resolved what was printed. Nothing else is resolved while transpiling at run time. Printing the namespace into the path (PRINT_NAMESPACE_IN_PATH, "used to prevent running resolve plugins multiple times for the same path"), with a shortcut in the resolve hook that returned any key in a namespace that has an onLoad, hid that for one case. require() has no such shortcut.

Fix

• Zig::GlobalObject::moduleLoaderResolve returns the key when useImportMap is false.
• JSC::loadAndEvaluateModule(name) only ever asks with false, so it takes a key. That is how WebCore uses it: it parses <script src> into a URL itself (document->encodingParseURL), and what it hands JSC is called moduleKey. Bun handed it names that still had to be resolved. Of its six callers, three hold a key and go on as they were, through the same binding: the entry point ("bun:main"), a macro's entry (a generated macro: id) and a bun build --app config (what the resolver has just answered). Three hold a name: a test file, the entry point under BUN_DISABLE_TRANSPILER, and the argument of Module.runMain. Those call JSModuleLoader::resolve with true and then JSC::loadAndEvaluateModule with the key; in Rust that is resolve_and_load_and_evaluate_module_ptr, beside load_and_evaluate_module_ptr. What BUN_JSC_dumpModuleLoadingState logs is what it was for a script, a script with import(), and executables compiled plain, with --splitting and with --bytecode; a name costs one more line, for the question about the key that the hook now answers with the key.
• Two callers passed false for what is a specifier, which did not matter while nobody read it: Bun.ModuleGraph's import(), and the static imports of a compiled executable. They pass true.
• Bun.ModuleGraph's import() needs the key before the load starts, so it resolves itself. It handed the key to requestImportModule, which resolves what it is handed. It does what that function does after its resolve: loadModule(key, { Evaluate, Dynamic }), whose promise is fulfilled with the namespace, and JSC's ImportModuleNamespace reaction.
• import() hands the loader the specifier and the referrer.
• onResolve is asked when the code runs, and not before. Removed: the block in Linker::link; the PluginResolver trait and Linker::plugin_runner it went through; PluginRunner::on_resolve, a second copy of plugin_runner_on_resolve_jsc that leaked a buffer for each answer; PRINT_NAMESPACE_IN_PATH and what the printer did for it; the shortcut in the hook, with its FIXME; the lookup of virtual modules in moduleLoaderImportModule, which the hook does. With that block gone, so are Linker::generate_import_path, whose other caller passes constants and is a match of three arms in place, and intern; externals and the check of had_resolve_errors after the loop were dead before. VirtualMachine::plugin_runner was only ever asked whether it was there, which C++ knows: Bun__hasPlugins asks the two lists, and Bun__onDidAppendPlugin, the field, its reset between isolated test files and the export that C++ called back are gone. Bun__runOnResolvePlugins and Bun__runOnLoadPlugins took a target that C++ did not read and only Linker::link varied. extract_namespace and could_be_plugin were in the bundler's crate for Linker::link; they move to bun_jsc, where they are used, and BunPluginTarget to JSBundler.rs, which is all that uses it. What is printed changes, so the version of the transpiler cache goes from 33 to 34.
• Asking again also did something that was needed, two things in fact. If the plugin's filter did not match its own answer, the answer went through the resolver: the example in the documentation answers "./public/images/...". If it did, the answer came back and was the key as it stood: that is how a plugin with filter: /\.virt$/ serves, from its onLoad, a path that is not on disk. So resolve_maybe_needs_trailing_slash is two functions. The outer one asks onResolve, and puts an answer through the inner one, which is what was there without onResolve: the limit on length, the builtins, the file resolver, from the same importer. If that finds nothing and an onLoad would be called for the answer, the answer is the key.
• That a path in a namespace is a key is what the shortcut in the hook was good for. It is a rule of the inner function now, after onResolve and for every way to load, and it asks whether an onLoad would be called (Bun__hasOnLoad), filter included. What a plugin is asked about for a specifier, and whether it is asked at all, was worked out in three places; plugin_namespace_and_path is the one place now, so what is taken for a key is what loading will serve.
• A test file that does not resolve was a fatal error before JavaScript starts, printed by nothing. It is a rejected promise, as when it does not load.

Measured

Linux x64, canary 7fe13e1b9, Node 26.7.

Every way to load or resolve. 13 ways, to an ES module, a CommonJS module and a path that onResolve moves into a namespace, with a literal and with a specifier the parser cannot know, with the plugin from a --preload and from the file itself: 138 cases. onResolve sends a to b, b to c, c to d. Right is b, with one call.

	canary	this PR
wrong, of 138	53	12

The 12 are import.meta.resolve(), which does not ask onResolve at all. Not changed here.

What Bun loads itself, under the same plugin:

	canary	this PR
a later --preload, a test file, Module.runMain("./a.js")	c, 2 calls	b, 1 call
the entry point, a Worker's	b, 1 call	b, 1 call
Bun.ModuleGraph's import()	d, 3 calls	b, 1 call

What onResolve answers, without a namespace: an absolute path, a relative one, one without its extension (relative and absolute), a directory (both), a package's name, ../, a file that is missing. Eight ways to load or resolve, 72 cases.

	canary	this PR
an import statement, require("..."), require.resolve("...") (27)	resolved from the importer	the same, all 27
import()	resolved from the working directory	from the importer
require(variable), import.meta.require()	taken as it is: a segfault for a relative path to an ES module, ENOENT, EISDIR	from the importer
Bun.resolveSync()	returns the answer as it is	returns what it resolves to

An answer that is missing is Cannot find module from the importer, as on canary.

Eight more kinds of answer, by an import statement, require("..."), import() and require(variable): a file: URL, the name of a build.module() module, "ns:thing" where ns has an onLoad, a builtin with and without node:, bun:sqlite, a path with a query, a data: URL. All load. On canary three of the 32 do not: require(variable) with the URL and with "path", require("...") with "ns:thing".

An answer that is not on disk, with filter: /\.virt$/ on both onResolve and onLoad, by an import statement, export * from, import(), require() and require.resolve(): loads by all five, as on canary, with one call where canary makes two or three.

An answer of 9000 characters, on Linux (on Windows, where a path can be longer, 200,000):

	canary	this PR
import()	rejects, ENAMETOOLONG while resolving	the same
an import statement, require(), require.resolve()	panic: range end index 9003 out of range for slice of length 4095	that error

bun test a.test.ts b.test.ts, with an onResolve for a.test.ts:

	canary	this PR
it answers a path that is missing	an error under a.test.ts, b.test.ts runs, 1 pass 1 fail 1 error	the same
it throws	exits 1 and prints nothing	the error under a.test.ts, b.test.ts runs, 1 pass 1 fail 1 error

On Windows, a file written after Bun has read its directory, with no plugin. Windows x64, main at e29a7ca47, each case in its own process:

the path given to import() or require()	main	this PR
root + "/src/later.mjs", or the same with forward slashes only	Cannot find module	loads
import.meta.dir + "/later.mjs", path.join(...), "./later.mjs"	loads	loads

Bun.resolveSync() answers all five on both: the resolver spells the path with backslashes, and it was the second question, about that spelling, that failed.

If that file is a symlink, the resolver answers the path of the link for root + "/src/link.mjs", and the real path for path.join(...) (the other spellings were not tried). Bun.resolveSync() shows that on main and here alike, and it is not changed. import() and require() load what the resolver answers, where they threw.

Module._resolveFilename returning...

	canary	this PR	Node
dir + "/./esm.mjs", "/sub/../esm.mjs", "//esm.mjs"	segfault	loads	loads
"./esm.mjs"	segfault	loads, with import.meta.url file:///esm.mjs	loads
a symlink to the file, a path through a symlinked directory	segfault	loads, apart from the real path's module	the same
dir + "/./esm.mts", a module that imports another	segfault	loads	loads
a file that is missing, a directory, a file: URL	throws	throws	throws

The same as canary: Module.runMain() with nine kinds of argument (absolute, relative, no extension, a directory, a symlink, a . segment, missing); --preload, --import and --require of eight names of builtins, 24 cases, and a Worker's preload of node:sys; an entry point through a symlink, through sub/.. and without its extension, with and without BUN_DISABLE_TRANSPILER; a macro through each of those; import() of 24 kinds (relative, absolute, file: URL, query, hash, builtins, missing, JSON, text, CommonJS, from eval, new Function, a timer, node:vm, a data: URL), down to the name, message, code, referrer and specifier of the error; the number of calls of each hook that BUN_JSC_dumpModuleLoadingState logs.

What else changes

	before	this PR
a require("...") in a branch or a function that does not run	onResolve is asked when the file loads	it is not asked
onResolve throws, and the require() is in a try	the file does not load, nothing to catch	caught
onResolve returns nothing, or a path or namespace that is not valid	asked twice	asked once, the same message
import("ns:thing"), require("ns:thing") where an onLoad for ns matches and no onResolve claims it	Cannot find package 'ns:thing'	load, like import "ns:thing"
import "ns:thing" where ns has an onLoad and its filter does not match	ENOENT reading "ns:thing"	Cannot find package 'ns:thing'
an onResolve in the namespace bun that matches main	asked about bun:main twice when Bun starts	not asked: Bun loads it by its key
a literal require("...") that runs three times	onResolve is asked once, when the file loads	three times, like require(variable)
an answer that is missing, from a plugin whose filter matches its own answer and which has no onLoad for it	ENOENT reading when it loads; require.resolve() returns it; import of an extension with no loader gives the path	Cannot find module, as from a plugin whose filter does not match

One test used the first of those errors to see that an onResolve registered while a path is resolving does not apply to that path. It has the late one mark what it resolves instead. Another followed a to d to get a module registered under a key other than the one asked for; it follows a to b.

Where a plugin's filter matches its own answer and the resolver finds another file, the answer was the key on canary. What the resolver finds is the key now, as when the filter does not match and as when the path is written by hand.

With a symlink, that is a fix: there is one module, and the flag that is for this decides.

onResolve answers a path through a symlink	canary	this PR
onLoad and import.meta get	that path	the real path
the file is also imported by its real path	onLoad is called twice, two modules	once, one module
with --preserve-symlinks	that path	that path

With an extension that the resolver rewrites, it is only a difference:

onResolve answers	canary	this PR
dir + "/gen.js", which is missing, next to a gen.ts	onLoad is called for gen.js	gen.ts is loaded

Different from Node, or wrong, and not changed here

• import.meta.resolve() does not ask onResolve.
• onResolve is not asked about a specifier with no dot and no colon ("env"), by any way to load. The same on canary.
• On Windows, extract_namespace does not take A:, Z:, a: and z: for drives: its comparisons leave out both ends. The same on main; the function only moved.
• Module.runMain() with no argument resolves "undefined", where Node takes process.argv[1]. The same on canary.
• With a relative path from Module._resolveFilename, the key is that path, and import.meta is made from the key: url is file:///esm.mjs, dirname is empty. Its own imports work. With /./ and /../, import.meta is what Node gives.
• With /./, /../, // or a relative path from Module._resolveFilename, the module is apart from the one of the normalized path, so the file is evaluated again if both are loaded. Node has one, because it keys ES modules by URL. On canary that is so for the spellings that did not crash, and for CommonJS in Node too.

How did you verify your code works?

In plugins.test.ts, 38 tests are new or changed, and 31 of them fail on 1.4.2: one call of onResolve for each of eight ways to load and for four things Bun loads itself; five ways into a namespace; three ways to load a path in a namespace with no onResolve; a require() that does not run; a require() in a try; nine kinds of answer, two of them not on disk, through each of five ways to load; an answer that is a symlink; an answer that only the filter of an onLoad matches, which would not be called for it; an answer that is too long; the importer of a module with a query; an empty specifier and a URL that is not one, with a build.module() registered; a test file about which onResolve throws or answers what is missing; node:sys with an onLoad in the namespace node.

In resolve.test.ts: import() and require() of a file written after its directory was read, by two spellings with forward slashes. On Windows x64 both fail on main and pass with the binary CI built from this branch; elsewhere they pass on both.

In node-module-module.test.js: six paths from Module._resolveFilename, which fail on 1.4.2, and six arguments of Module.runMain. In preload-test.test.js: three ways to preload node:sys. Those nine pass on 1.4.2: an earlier commit of this PR broke them and nothing noticed.

test/js/bun/plugin, node-module-module.test.js, preload-test.test.js, mock-module.test.ts, debug: 185 pass, 0 fail. isolation.test.ts and pre-port-identifiers.test.ts: 63 pass, 0 fail. module-graph.test.ts with isolation.test.ts, before the last commit: 338 pass, 0 fail.

bun build --no-bundle of five files that need the runtime, CommonJS interop, decorators, using and JSX, for three targets, plain, with --public-path and with --format=cjs: 45 outputs, the same bytes as canary. Nine of them import the runtime, which the printer spells "bun:wrap" whatever the path is, so this says that nothing that shows has changed, not that each arm was taken. After Bun.plugin.clearAll(), seven kinds of import give what canary gives.

BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 on the tests of answers, of namespaces, of test files and of Bun.ModuleGraph, 15 of them: no report. With a plain entry point, and with Module.runMain of a path without its extension and of one that is missing: no report.

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Walkthrough

Plugin resolution now distinguishes replacement specifiers from final module keys and validation errors. Import printing no longer adds namespace prefixes to paths. Module-loading entry points resolve names through Bun’s module loader. Tests cover plugin redirects, import maps, preload aliases, path variants, symlinks, and missing targets.

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Module resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Process plugin resolution results src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/bindings/BunPlugin.cpp, src/jsc/JSGlobalObject.rs, src/jsc/PluginRunner.rs, src/jsc/ModuleLoader.rs, src/jsc/lib.rs, src/jsc/virtual_machine_exports.rs, src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs, src/bundler/linker.rs, src/bundler/transpiler.rs, test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts	The VM tracks plugin presence and handles results as replacement specifiers, final keys, or validation errors. Plugin-key lookup checks registered virtual modules and namespaces. Plugin resolution tests cover imports, requires, redirects, call counts, and errors.
Print import paths without namespace prefixes src/ast/import_record.rs, src/js_printer/lib.rs, src/jsc/RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs, src/bundler/linker.rs, src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/jsc/JSGlobalObject.rs, docs/runtime/plugins.mdx	Import records and printed source use paths without namespace prefixes. The namespace-printing flag and plugin resolver wiring are removed. The cache version and namespace documentation are updated.
Resolve module-loading entry points src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.h, src/jsc/bindings/ModuleLoader.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/bindings.cpp, src/jsc/modules/NodeModuleModule.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ModuleGraph.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp, test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js, test/cli/run/preload-test.test.js	A shared function resolves module names with import maps enabled before evaluation. Bindings and Module.runMain use it. Graph imports and standalone closure collection enable import-map resolution. Tests cover aliases, path variants, symlinks, and missing targets.

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• 🟣 src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp — Users whose onResolve output matches its own filter still get dynamic import() asking onResolve twice and loading the second redirect, not the first as the PR table says. moduleLoaderImportModule resolves a->b itself, then requestImportModule at ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3725 has the loader resolve b again with useImportMap=true (b->c); the new early return at 3515 only cuts the third ask. Fix: give the loader one resolution per import() for every caller that resolves before requestImportModule, including JSModuleGraph::import at ModuleGraph.cpp:606, and put back the import() row that 7915a63 dropped from the plugins.test.ts matrix.

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  A Bun.plugin onResolve whose returned path its own filter matches (the a->b->c->d plugin at test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts:1140-1148) and await import("./a.mjs") in user code. moduleLoaderImportModule calls Zig__GlobalObject__resolve at ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3706 (onResolve call 1, a->b), then hands b to requestImportModule with an empty referrer at ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3725-3726. The loader resolves that argument through moduleLoaderResolve with useImportMap=true before loading. So the same call at 3725 re-asks onResolve about b (call 2, b->c); the early return at ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3515 removes only loadModule's third ask (c->d). import() therefore yields c after 2 calls while import.meta.require("./a.mjs") in the same file yields b after 1, so the two load different modules for one specifier. The base gave d after 3 calls, so this is an improvement but not the b, 1 call the description's table states. 7915a63 deleted the import() row with no replacement, so nothing now tests import() under a redirecting plugin.

  Verification: pre-existing (the base asks three times and loads d; HEAD asks twice and loads c). moduleLoaderImportModule resolves the specifier via Zig__GlobalObject__resolve (ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3706) and calls loader->requestImportModule (ZigGlobalObject.cpp:3725-3726). Hence for user import(): hook ask (a->b) + loader ask with useImportMap=true (b->c) = 2 onResolve calls, module c loaded.

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The latest push resolves the earlier threads on the duplicated resolve-then-load block (now Bun::resolveAndEvaluateModule), the undrained stderr in the "asked once" matrix, and the file-namespace onResolve answer bypassing the file resolver (now the Specifier arm). Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the --compile path: StandaloneGlobalObject::moduleLoaderResolve still short-circuits /$bunfs/ keys before the new useImportMap early return, and collectStandaloneClosure now passes true, so embedded static imports still resolve.

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The push since the last review adds the shared resolveAndEvaluateModule helper used by both the entry-point binding and Module.runMain, reroutes file-namespace onResolve answers through the normal resolver in VirtualMachine.rs, and drains stderr in the new plugins.test.ts matrix. One new confirmed finding remains on the Specifier arm, so the inline comments already signal that a human should look; this note only records what was additionally checked.

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• 🟣 src/jsc/ModuleLoader.rs — pre-existing nit: on Windows, a plugin whose onResolve filter matches a path on drive A:, Z:, a: or z: receives namespace "A" and path "\x.js" instead of the file path. The drive-letter test at src/jsc/ModuleLoader.rs:101-102 uses exclusive comparisons (> b'a' && < b'z'), so the first and last letters are not treated as drives and extract_namespace returns the letter as a namespace. Fix: make both ranges inclusive (>= b'a' && <= b'z', >= b'A' && <= b'Z') or use is_ascii_alphabetic(), so every drive letter is excluded at the one shared helper that run_on_resolve and resolve_without_on_resolve now both use. [also at: src/jsc/ModuleLoader.rs:257 - pre-existing: on Windows, absolute paths on drives A:, Z:, a: or z: are treated as a plugin namespace, so a file-namespace onResolve is never asked about them.]

  Why this was flagged

  On Windows a runtime plugin registers build.onResolve({ filter: /.js$/ }, args => ...) and a module on drive A: or Z: imports "./x.js". run_on_resolve at src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:7653 calls extract_namespace on the absolute specifier "A:\x.js"; the cfg!(windows) branch at…

  Verification: pre-existing. On Windows, an absolute path on drive A:, Z:, a: or z: reaching the resolve hook with a Bun.plugin() registered hits src/jsc/ModuleLoader.rs:256-257, exclusive on both ends, so :261 returns b"Z" as the namespace. src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:7653 then passes namespace "Z"; BunPlugin.cpp:898-900 finds no group "Z" and returns undefined, so a file-namespace onResolve is silently never called.

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

• 🟡 src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs — Plugin users whose code imports a namespaced module by a long specifier now get an ENAMETOOLONG error where the base loaded it from the namespace's onLoad. resolve_without_on_resolve applies the file-path length cap at src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5263 before the namespaced-key rule at 5332-5338. A static import "ns:<payload>" over MAX_LEN (1536 bytes on macOS, 6144 on Linux) is rejected as a path although it never touches the filesystem. Fix: exempt a key that an onLoad serves from the length cap, as data: is, by testing the namespace/onLoad rule before MAX_LEN for every caller, so direct imports match onResolve answers, which the outer function already accepts at 5237.

  Why this was flagged

  A runtime plugin registers build.onLoad({ filter: /.*/, namespace: "inline" }) and a module contains a static import "inline:<content>" whose specifier is longer than MAX_LEN: 1536 bytes on macOS, 6144 on Linux. run_on_resolve finds no onResolve for the namespace and returns None, so resolve_without_on_resolve runs. Its first check at src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5263 fires on IS_A_FILE_PATH && length > MAX_LEN and returns a ResolveMessage with ENAMETOOLONG (5268-5282) before the rule at 5332-5338 that returns a namespaced key whose onLoad matches. On the base branch moduleLoaderResolve returned any key in a registered onLoad namespace before calling Zig__GlobalObject__resolve (the shortcut deleted from ZigGlobalObject.cpp), so the static import loaded from the onLoad. The same key answered by an onResolve still works, because the outer function at 5237 accepts the answer after the inner one fails, so only specifiers written directly in source regress.

  Verification: resolve_without_on_resolve (src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5260-5283) checks IS_A_FILE_PATH && specifier.length() > MAX_LEN && !specifier.starts_with_ascii(b"data:") and returns an ENAMETOOLONG ResolveMessage before reaching the namespaced-key rule at :5332-5338. With no onResolve for the namespace, run_on_resolve returns Ok(None) (:7648-7655), so the long specifier hits the length cap.

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🔴 Plugin users running outside a project with node_modules (Bun's auto-install mode) now get an npm registry lookup, and possibly an installed npm package, for an onResolve answer meant for their onLoad. The outer resolve at src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5229 sends every file-namespace answer through _resolve before has_on_load at :5237 is consulted; for a bare answer such as "itself.img" the resolver's auto-install path enqueues the name as an npm dependency. Fix: re-resolve an onResolve answer with auto-install off (GlobalCache::disable, or check has_on_load before the resolver for a bare file-namespace answer), while relative, extensionless and directory answers still resolve from the importer as the new docs state.

Why this was flagged

A runtime plugin registers build.onResolve({ filter: /.cfg$/ }, () => ({ path: "itself.img" })) and build.onLoad({ filter: /itself.img$/ }, ...), as the new test at test/js/bun/plugin/plugins.test.ts:1183 does, and the script runs in a directory with no node_modules. The answer reaches resolve_without_on_resolve at src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5229 and then _resolve at :5398, which calls resolve_and_auto_install at :5128. In the resolver the bare name passes strings::is_npm_package_name at src/resolver/resolver.rs:2854, so enqueue_dependency_to_root (:3574) fires a registry request for a package named "itself.img" before the result comes back NotFound and :5237 falls back to the onLoad key. If a package of that name exists on npm, it is resolved and loaded instead of the plugin's onLoad. On the base branch a file-namespace answer was returned as the key without touching the resolver (the deleted arm at the old :5290-5298), so no registry traffic occurred. The new test does not catch this because its tempDir contains src/node_modules, which turns auto-install off.

Verification: src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5229-5240: every file-namespace answer goes through resolve_without_on_resolve; has_on_load (:5237) is consulted only after resolved.is_err(). src/resolver/resolver.rs:2851-2854 enters the auto-install block for "itself.img" (registry fetch at :3574). On the base, a self-matching answer never touched _resolve. The new test includes src/node_modules/dep, so it never exercises auto-install.