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Bun.spawnSync waits on a loop of its own, and for the length of the call it pointed vm.event_loop_handle at that loop. Everything that finds its loop through the VM then found the wrong one: a FilePoll or KeepAlive released by a finalizer, or a KeepAlive taken by one. What the call makes for its child is handed the loop's EventLoop. The ctx made from that EventLoop now names its loop, so nothing needs the VM to be pointed anywhere.
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- Around line 1949-1950: Remove the explicit 60_000 timeout argument and its
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A running child whose pidfd failed to register was reported as exited with that error and never reaped. Bun.spawnSync blocked in wait4() instead, where nothing serves the child's stdio and no timeout applies.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the waiter.disable() -> waiter.unref(ctx) swap in Process::close and PollerPosix::deinit (src/spawn/process.rs): disable left the KeepAlive at Done while unref leaves it Inactive, but both sites immediately detach or drop the poller, so nothing can ref_ it again and the counter stays balanced. The debug_assert added to SpawnSyncEventLoop::prepare is debug-only and reads counters the loop already owns, so it cannot change release behavior.
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The change reworks how Bun.spawnSync's isolated event loop is identified on POSIX (new SpawnSync EventLoopCtx/AllocatorType kind, VM handle swap made Windows-only) and makes pidfd-registration failure SIGKILL and wait4 the child synchronously; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. Three verified findings are posted inline and one further verified finding is unposted, so approval is not on the table; this note only records the additional sites examined and ruled out.
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src/runtime/api/bun/js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs— pre-existing: aBun.spawnSync/Bun.spawncall withstdin: "pipe"whose writer cannot register still leaves its child running and never reaped, unlike the Buffer stdin path this PR fixes. TheWritable::initErr arm at src/runtime/api/bun/js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs:1356-1419 closes fds and derefs the Subprocess but never signals the child, andtry_killis a no-op there because the poller is stillDetached(src/spawn/process.rs:693). Fix: on every stdin-setup failure after a successful spawn (theWritable::initErr arm and thehas_exceptioncatch-all at :1483), SIGKILL the child by pid and reap it (wait(true)), as the new Buffer path now does at :1812-1822, so the comment at :2017 ("its stdin could not be set up and it was killed") becomes true for that arm too.Why this was flagged
A caller runs
Bun.spawnSync({cmd: ["sleep", "1000"], stdin: "pipe"})(orBun.spawnwith the same stdio) whileepoll_ctlfails with ENOSPC (exhausted fs.epoll.max_user_watches, the condition the PR's own fixture injects).Writable::initat…Verification: Pre-existing. Trigger:
Bun.spawn/Bun.spawnSyncwithstdin: "pipe"when the writer'sepoll_ctlADD fails. The Err arm at src/runtime/api/bun/js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs:1359-1420 never sends a signal, andProcess::killis a no-op forDetached, so the child keeps running and is never reaped. The existingstdin-pipecase spawnstrueand cannot detect the running child.
… throws for a failure - Process::kill_and_reap, called from on_wait_pid and watch_or_reap's error branch, so bun run --parallel/--filter, install scripts and the shell get it too. It leaves a reaped or unsignallable child alone, reports one that ended by itself with its own status and rusage, and closes the Process after. - Bun.spawn: report an unwatched exit before throwing (onExit took the pending exception with it), SIGKILL instead of killSignal, the real error instead of "Out of memory". - FileSink::assign_to_stream/pipe_stream return JsResult: a non-Error thrown by a direct stream's pull() left Bun.write pending and Bun.spawn's child running. - Shell: finish a command whose exit came with an error, reap one it gave up on. - spawn_maybe_sync: RAII types instead of scopeguard. SpawnSyncEventLoop takes &self and prepare() returns the guard that ticks. - Tests: drop from the last option's getter so the GC lands inside the call, no explicit timeout in the NAPI test.
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From a poll callback the registration's ref is already the caller's to release, and close() released it again while the status was still Running. Only watch_or_reap's error return needs the close, where nothing registered.
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Merge upstream oven-sh/bun main (spawnSync event-loop fix oven-sh#44581)
… canary (do not merge) Six identical runs each on ubuntu-24.04, with the pinned Bun 1.4.2 and with the canary that carries oven-sh/bun#44581, the spawnSync fix for oven-sh/bun#34069 (#240). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every test and fixture that ran a child with Bun.spawnSync now awaits an asynchronous child through tests/fixtures/run-child.ts (Bun.spawn, output read as text, exit awaited). The assertions are unchanged. On Bun 1.4.2 a garbage collection inside a spawnSync call can leave the call's private event loop miscounted; a later spawnSync in the same process then misses its child's exit and spins until the test times out (oven-sh/bun#34069, fixed after 1.4.2 by oven-sh/bun#44581). A `bun test --parallel` worker runs many files in one process, so it hit this on the Linux runner (#240). An asynchronous child never enters that loop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every test and fixture that ran a child with Bun.spawnSync now awaits an asynchronous child through tests/fixtures/run-child.ts (Bun.spawn, output read as text, exit awaited). The assertions are unchanged. On Bun 1.4.2 a garbage collection inside a spawnSync call can leave the call's private event loop miscounted; a later spawnSync in the same process then misses its child's exit and spins until the test times out (oven-sh/bun#34069, fixed after 1.4.2 by oven-sh/bun#44581). A `bun test --parallel` worker runs many files in one process, so it hit this on the Linux runner (#240). An asynchronous child never enters that loop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…277) * fix: take file locks with flock(2) instead of a flock child process flock() in src/logins.ts ran Bun.spawnSync(["flock", ...]) with no timeout. Bun 1.4.2 has oven-sh/bun#34069: a garbage collection finalizer that runs during a spawnSync call releases its poll on the call's private loop, the loop's poll count drifts, and a later spawnSync call never sees its child exit. The test worker for test/logins.test.ts hung that way in a lease and held CI until the job timeout (#239). The upstream fix, oven-sh/bun#44581, is in no release. flock() now calls flock(2) from libc.so.6 through bun:ffi on the same descriptor, so the lock and the close-to-release behavior stay the same for every caller. It retries on EINTR, returns null on EWOULDBLOCK, and throws on any other errno. The options are typed as a mode and a wait instead of flock(1) flags. The host no longer needs the flock binary, so doctor drops its check and README names glibc instead. Fixes #239 * fix: use the typed flock options in the run-lock test
Bun 1.4.2's synchronous spawn waits on a process-wide isolated event loop. A garbage collection during the call can finalize an earlier object's poll there, for example a stdio writer from a test file that `bun test --parallel` already discarded, and permanently lower that loop's poll count. Every later spawnSync/execSync in the worker then never reaps its child. It spins until the test times out, printing "killed 1 dangling process", and its own `timeout` does not end it (oven-sh/bun#43697, fixed by oven-sh/bun#44581 after 1.4.2). Shard 4 hit this in the fail-closed gate and no-source-string tests. Add runCommand/commandOutput in scripts/shared/command.ts on top of async Bun.spawn, which uses the thread's loop, and move every Workspace synchronous spawn to it: test helpers, the no-source-string audit, and the account visual capture scripts. The gate test now also fails if a gate run times out rather than counting that as a non-zero exit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…shard's step summary Shard 7 of the Test run twice lost its tail to the same shape (run 38004627376 attempt 1 on d4dc2d4, run 37971386009 on c12e14a): inside test/persistence-git-publication.test.ts a sync git spawn hangs until the test deadline prints 'killed 1 dangling process', and from then on every synchronous child spawn in the process (spawnSync, execSync, execFileSync) times out with empty output while async spawns and in-process tests pass. That is Bun 1.4.x's oven-sh/bun#34069: a GC finalizer that runs while Bun.spawnSync waits drifts the runtime's private spawnSync loop for the life of the process. Fixed upstream by oven-sh/bun#44581 (13a98b0, 2026-10-05), in no release yet. scripts/capture-test-log.ts recognises the signature (a dangling kill, then at least three timed-out failures across at least two files and no other kind of failure) and names it bun_spawnsync_poisoned in the step summary and on stderr, with the Bun version and the upstream fix, so the shard's remaining failures are read as a rerun and not as a test leak. It is a signal only: nothing is resumed or retried. A single hung test with a dangling child, timeouts with no killed child, timeouts confined to one file, or any non-timeout failure after the kill are left for their own diagnosis. Both real shard logs are named by the detector; the same shard's unrelated recall-budget failure is not. TODOS.md tracks the Bun bump: check the compare for 13a98b0, not the version number. docs/TESTING.md describes the signal. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
…shard's step summary Shard 7 of the Test run twice lost its tail to the same shape (run 38004627376 attempt 1 on d4dc2d4, run 37971386009 on c12e14a): inside test/persistence-git-publication.test.ts a sync git spawn hangs until the test deadline prints 'killed 1 dangling process', and from then on every synchronous child spawn in the process (spawnSync, execSync, execFileSync) times out with empty output while async spawns and in-process tests pass. That is Bun 1.4.x's oven-sh/bun#34069: a GC finalizer that runs while Bun.spawnSync waits drifts the runtime's private spawnSync loop for the life of the process. Fixed upstream by oven-sh/bun#44581 (13a98b0, 2026-10-05), in no release yet. scripts/capture-test-log.ts recognises the signature (a dangling kill, then at least three timed-out failures across at least two files and no other kind of failure) and names it bun_spawnsync_poisoned in the step summary and on stderr, with the Bun version and the upstream fix, so the shard's remaining failures are read as a rerun and not as a test leak. It is a signal only: nothing is resumed or retried. A single hung test with a dangling child, timeouts with no killed child, timeouts confined to one file, or any non-timeout failure after the kill are left for their own diagnosis. Both real shard logs are named by the detector; the same shard's unrelated recall-budget failure is not. TODOS.md tracks the Bun bump: check the compare for 13a98b0, not the version number. docs/TESTING.md describes the signal. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
…no exit status fails loudly Shard 7 of the Test workflow lost its tail three runs out of three at the current composition (d4dc2d4 twice, c12e14a once), each time inside test/persistence-git-publication.test.ts: a Bun.spawnSync git spun until the deadline killed it, and from then on every synchronous child spawn in the process timed out with empty output. That is Bun 1.4.x's oven-sh/bun#34069, fixed upstream by oven-sh/bun#44581 (13a98b0) and in no release yet. The file's git calls now run through Bun.spawn on the main loop (gitAsync, gitFixtureAsync), removing the shard's densest run of spawnSync windows. The synchronous helper stays for callers that cannot await; both throw on any exit that is not 0, including a null exit code, which used to pass as success and return '' (that is how the poisoned run became a bogus fixture and a durability_not_enabled assertion). Both spawns pass the live process.env so a test's PATH or GIT_* override reaches the child. Probe: test/git-publication-helper.test.ts fails on the previous helper (the signalled git returned '') and passes now. Co-authored-by: capy-ai[bot] <230910855+capy-ai[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
The api lane comment tied leaving integration unisolated to the unit lane soaking at four workers. Those are unrelated: the unit lane's width rests on oven-sh/bun#44581, while integration stays out of isolate mode because that machinery is what hangs the runner (oven-sh/bun#39709, still open) and its files are spawn-heavy. Restore the present tense and name the open issue as the gate. Signed-off-by: Julio Polycarpo <julio@polycarpo.dev>
…hild exits (#4956) Bun 1.4.0's Bun.spawnSync pointed the VM at its private wait loop for the length of the call. A finalizer that ran during one call released its poll on that loop, the cached loop's poll count drifted to zero, and a later call stopped polling for its child: it spun past its own timeout until the 120 s batch deadline. That is how Linux shard 1/4 batch 5 stalled inside release-version-sources.test.ts. oven-sh/bun#44581 fixes it and first ships in Bun 1.4.3. Adds a bounded regression test that reproduces the mechanism in a child and fails on 1.4.0.
…hild exits (#4956) Bun 1.4.0's Bun.spawnSync pointed the VM at its private wait loop for the length of the call. A finalizer that ran during one call released its poll on that loop, the cached loop's poll count drifted to zero, and a later call stopped polling for its child: it spun past its own timeout until the 120 s batch deadline. That is how Linux shard 1/4 batch 5 stalled inside release-version-sources.test.ts. oven-sh/bun#44581 fixes it and first ships in Bun 1.4.3. Adds a bounded regression test that reproduces the mechanism in a child and fails on 1.4.0.
…hild exits (#4956) Bun 1.4.0's Bun.spawnSync pointed the VM at its private wait loop for the length of the call. A finalizer that ran during one call released its poll on that loop, the cached loop's poll count drifted to zero, and a later call stopped polling for its child: it spun past its own timeout until the 120 s batch deadline. That is how Linux shard 1/4 batch 5 stalled inside release-version-sources.test.ts. oven-sh/bun#44581 fixes it and first ships in Bun 1.4.3. Adds a bounded regression test that reproduces the mechanism in a child and fails on 1.4.0.
…hild exits (#4956) (#6986) Squashed from #6986 for the 2.84.0 release train. Linux CI shard 1/4 batch 5 kept hitting its 120 s batch deadline (#4956; runs 38146205183 and 38162375606). The batch did not stall after its tests passed: it stalled inside `tests/ci-workflows/release-version-sources.test.ts`, in a `Bun.spawnSync(..., { timeout: 15000 })` that never returned. **Root cause (Bun 1.4.0, the CI test runner).** For the length of a call, `Bun.spawnSync` pointed the VM at its private wait loop. A finalizer that ran during the call (an earlier file's stdout/stderr sink, a stream reader) released its poll on that loop. The loop is cached for the life of the process, so its poll count drifted to zero. A later call then stopped polling for its child: the child became a zombie and the call spun at 100% CPU past its own `timeout`. In a multi-file `--isolate` process this depends on what earlier files left to finalize, which is why every file passed alone. Upstream fixed it in oven-sh/bun#44581, first released in Bun 1.4.3. Evidence: - **Hosted reproduction** (scratch branch, not part of this PR): running shard 1/4 batches 1–5 in sequence on Bun 1.4.0 stalled 8 of 252 batch-5 runs at the same test (run 38213764818). Each dump shows the same state: - the test process main thread in state R, symbolized as `spawn_maybe_sync` → `tick_with_timeout` → `tick_tasks_only`; - the CLI child a zombie; - its pidfd armed level-triggered in spawnSync's private epoll but never waited on. - **Hosted A/B:** the same sequence on Bun 1.4.3 had 0 stalls in 280 batch-5 runs and no crash in 1,400 batches (run 38215466714). Running the 12-file batch alone never stalled in 450 runs (run 38213203939). - **Local:** upstream's mechanism with one finalized poll hung past its own timeout in 10 of 12 runs on 1.4.0 and passed 12 of 12 on 1.4.3. **Changes** - `package.json` `testRunnerBun` 1.4.0 → 1.4.3. The shipped runtime (`dependencies.bun` 1.4.2) and Docker image are unchanged. The pin rationale is updated in the setup action, `ci.yml`, `Dockerfile`, `structure/runtime.md`, `CONTRIBUTING.md` and the docs-site contributing page, and the pin assertion in `install-scripts.test.ts` is updated. - New `tests/ci-workflows/test-runner-spawnsync-finalizer.test.ts` (+ child fixture): reproduces the mechanism in a child of the test-runner Bun under a bounded async parent (10 s deadline, 3 s reap grace, settles even if exit or EOF never arrive). It fails on 1.4.0 (one writer: never returns; three writers: timeout with empty output) and passes on 1.4.3. Skipped on Windows, like upstream's case. Closes #6984
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…once test to CI; every agent merge waits for checks on a head holding main's tip (#163) * The Mac's gate leaves the four-runs-at-once test to CI; every agent merge waits for checks on a head holding main's tip Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * AGENTS.md and STATE.md say the gate leaves the at-once test to CI and every merge waits for checks; two comments made true Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * The summary names the left-out test only where the checkout holds it; roadmap item ticked with what was seen Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Name pull request 163 in ROADMAP.md and STATE.md Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * The new test file's tests sit at the top level with their stand-in helper below them, so Bun reports each on its own line and tests proven finds its mark Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Roadmap evidence cites the Slice 0 proof run, CI's run of the four-runs-at-once test and tests proven Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Every citation of Bun's spawn fix names oven-sh/bun#44581 in Bun 1.4.3; roadmap evidence cites the passing proof run and gate summary on 01b4832 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hild The production deploy contract row went silent until its 480 s bound in 12 of 48 runs through the tier's own entry on canary 9bd19c98e (#83): bun's main thread spun in user space with no syscall, its one pidfd naming a zombie git from a synchronous spawn (sources.ts's git ls-files, staging-loop.ts's git rev-parse). That canary is one commit before oven-sh/bun#44581 (13a98b0dbd), which closed oven-sh/bun#34069. Bun 1.4.3 carries it and #44279, which the canary pin was for; pinned to it (package.json, bun.lock), the row went silent in 0 of 96 runs. Armada's bootstrap Bun installs the same release, and release-config.test.ts holds the two equal. The anti-slop no-sync-spawn rule, its gate and isSpawnGoverned worked around the old Bun and go, as do the comments that cited the hang as live.
KINU_BUN_VERSION, core's and the daemon's copy in pc-agent/src/update.js, moves from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3, the release with oven-sh/bun#44581: on 1.4.2 a synchronous spawn could spin forever over a child that had exited, which the dropped no-sync-spawn rule guarded the CLI and daemon against. A machine on an older Bun gets 1.4.3 under KINU_HOME at its next launch; with KINU_INSTALL_BUN=0 it is refused. The protocol-2 fixture keeps the text that protocol shipped.
What does this PR do?
Fixes #34069. Fixes #37968. Supersedes #40078, which found the cause.
Bun.spawnSyncstops pointing the VM at the loop it waits on.pull()throws is a failure whether or not it is anError.scopeguards ofspawn_maybe_syncare RAII types.2 to 4 came out of the debug assert that 1 adds and out of review.
1. spawnSync and the VM's loop
Bun.spawnSyncwaits on an event loop of its own. For the length of the call it also pointedvm.event_loop_handleat that loop, so everything that finds its loop through the VM found the wrong one. The only other code that runs in there is a garbage collection's finalizers:FilePollorKeepAlive(an earlier test file'sprocess.stderr,napi_unref_threadsafe_function)num_pollsdrifts down, and it is reused for the life of the process. Once the drift cancels the polls of a later call, the tick returns without polling: that call spins at 100% CPU until itstimeout, or forever without one, and loses the child's output (#34069). The thread's loop keeps the ref, so the process never exitsFilePollEEXIST: file already exists, epoll_ctl(#37968)KeepAlive(napi_queue_async_workfrom aNAPI_EXPERIMENTALfinalizer)In CI this is
test/internal/build-toolchain-identity.test.tsfailing withCannot tell which …/current/clang this isafter exactly 30,001 ms (itsspawnSynctimeout), in the--parallelbatch only: 39 of the 85mainbuilds that completed since the test was added on September 20.Cause. What the call makes for its child (the process poll, the stdout/stderr readers, the stdin writer) is already handed the
jsc::EventLoopof spawnSync's loop, andEventLoopHandle::loop_()already answers with that loop.EventLoopHandle::as_event_loop_ctx()did not: it erased theEventLoopto its VM, and the ctx asked the VM for the loop. The swap existed to make that answer come out right.Fix.
prepare()no longer swapsvm.event_loop_handleon POSIX, sojs_vm_ctx()andvm.uws_loop()always mean the thread's loop, for a release and for an acquire alike. What makes that possible is that a ctx made from spawnSync'sEventLoopnames its loop:EventLoopCtxandAllocatorTypeget the third kind of loop a thread has,SpawnSync.AllocatorTypeis what aFilePollalready keeps in order to find its ctx again indeinit(). No new field anywhere.EventLoop::event_loop_ctx()picks the kind fromisolated_poster, the wayjs_poster()already does. Every otherEventLoopgets the ctx it got before.SubprocessPipeReader::loop_()was the one thing on the sync path that asked the VM. It uses theEventLoopit was given.Process::closeandPollerPosix::deinitreleased the waiter thread'sKeepAlivethroughjs_vm_ctx(). Not reachable for a sync call today, but it is the same mistake.Windows keeps the swap. A libuv handle knows the loop it was made on and the counters there are always the thread's, so it does not have this bug.
Compared with #40078: it keeps the swap and has every owner record which loop was current when it took a counter, to resolve the loop from that at release. That cannot help a finalizer that takes a ref during the call (third row).
2. A child nobody is going to wait for
All of these are what happens when
epoll_ctlorkeventfails (ENOSPConcefs.epoll.max_user_watchesis used up,ENOMEM), or when setting up stdin throws. In each, the caller is told the child failed or is handed nothing at all, while the child ran on with nothing left to reap it.Bun.spawnSync, stdin writer cannot registerfinalizeas every call, throws the same errorBun.spawnSync, pidfd cannot registerwait4(): nothing serves the child's stdio andtimeoutdoes not apply, so a child that reads stdin or fills a pipe never exitsBun.spawn, pidfd cannot registerexitedrejected for a child that was still runningBun.spawn,stdin: "pipe"or a stream cannot be set upOut of memory, child left runningBun.spawn, buffer stdin writer cannot registerkillSignal, which the child may ignore, and its poll kept the parent aliveSIGKILLBun.spawnwith anonExit, neither the pidfd nor the buffer stdin writer can registeronExitran with the error already thrown and took the exception with it:Bun.spawnreturned an empty value and the caller segfaulted (also in 1.4.3)bun run --parallel,bun run --filter,bun installscripts (tested), and the other callers ofwatch_or_reap:bun test --parallelworkers, cron, git, the security scannerawait $`cmd`never settledSIGTERM, then a zombie for the life of the parentIt is one function,
Process::kill_and_reap(), called fromon_wait_pidand fromwatch_or_reap's error branch, so no caller ofwatch_or_reaphad to change.rusage, not with the error.EPERM: it runs as another user by now) is not waited for, since that would block until it exits by itself. It is given up, which is what happened to every child before.watch_or_reapcloses theProcessbefore it returns the error, so a caller's laterkill()is a no-op instead of a signal to a recycled pid.It is what already happens when
pidfd_openitself fails withEMFILE(spawn-pidfd-emfile.test.ts): fail instead of blocking inwait4().One change for the worse: a
spawnSyncchild whose pidfd cannot register and that would have exited by itself without needing its stdio served used to be waited for, and the call returned normally. Unless it has already exited, it is ended and the call throws, likeBun.spawn.3. What
pull()throwsA direct stream is pulled from while a sink is attached to it.
FileSink::assign_to_js_streamunwrapped theExceptioncell it got back to the thrown value, and both of its callers then asked that value whether it was an error:pull() { throw 42 }Bun.write(file, stream)42Bun.spawn({ stdin: stream })Subprocesswhose stdin never ended, soexitedhung42, child endedpull()ends the worker (process.exit())It returns
JsResultnow. That made thehas_exception()catch-all inspawn_maybe_syncunreachable (nothing between there andWritable::initruns JS), and its teardown was wrong anyway (killis a no-op before the process is watched, and nothing can release a reader that was never started), so it is gone, withcrate::Error::UnexpectedCreatingStdin.4. RAII
SpawnSyncEventLoop::prepare()returns a guard whoseDropis whatcleanup()was, andtick_with_timeoutis a method of the guard. That removes tworare_data().spawn_sync_event_loop().expect("cached by …")lookups and theirunsafe.SpawnSyncEventLoop's methods take&self, with what changes in aCell. A tick's callbacks reach the struct again (through theSpawnSyncctx, andon_uv_timeron Windows) whiletick_with_timeoutis on the stack, which&mut selfdid not allow for. The comments that explained how to stay clear of that are gone with it.SpawnedTerminalandReportUnwatchedExitreplace the other twoscopeguards.Looked at and left
rusage. It is not available for one process today:init()andreload_handlers()are gated on a process-wide sticky flag that also makes every later spawn skippidfd_open, exits reach it through a process-wideSIGCHLDhandler,rewatch_posixoverwrites a livePoller::Fdwithout releasing it once the flag is on, and outside of Linux its loop is asigwaiton an empty mask. Ending the child would have to stay for macOS and FreeBSD, where no test could reach it. Worth its own PR.kill_and_reapis a blockingwait4()on the JS thread. After aSIGKILLit is over at once, except for a child in uninterruptible sleep.windows_configure_serverfails after the child was started still leaves it running.scopeguardin functions this does not touch (PipeReader::to_readable_stream,spawn_posixofbun run).How did you verify your code works?
Every test below fails on
main(c7b06d9, release) and passes here.mainspawnsync-isolated-event-loop.test.ts: what is finalized during spawnSync is released on the thread's loopexitedDueToTimeout: true, empty stdoutspawnSync.test.ts: a writer finalized during spawnSync leaves its fd number usableEEXIST: file already exists, epoll_ctlnapi.test.ts: async work queued by a finalizer during Bun.spawnSync keeps the event loop alivenapi.test.ts: a threadsafe function unref'd by a finalizer during Bun.spawnSync lets go of the event loopspawn-pipe-start-error.test.ts: 16 cases, one or more for each row of the table in 2Out of memory, never returns, empty return valuespawn-stdin-readable-stream-edge-cases.test.ts: 6 cases of a direct stream that fails insideBun.spawnSubprocessreturnedbun-write.test.js: a direct stream whosepull()throws42,"boom",{ code: "E" },undefinedThe GC tests are deterministic. They have to get a collection to run inside of the call and nowhere before it:
BUN_JSC_slowPathAllocsBetweenGCs=3collects every third slow-path allocation.maxBuffer, the last optionspawnSyncreads, so nothing is allocated between the drop and the part of the call that matters.Bun.gc(true)first, which empties every free list, so how many slow-path allocations follow does not depend on what the script did before. About 6 do (the tests start to fail at an interval of 7).Stress. Every changed test, held to 4 cores. Release, 6 at a time: 120 runs of each file (30 of
napi.test.ts). Debug+ASAN, 3 at a time, which is what CI's--parallel=3on 4 vCPUs does: 24 of each (6). Clean but for the flake described further down. These ran on the version before that flake's two-line fix, which itself was only measured as described there.Also:
The CI failure itself: three garbage
Bun.stderr.writer()s collected during aspawnSync, then the realtoolIdentity()fromscripts/build/tools.tson a one-line/bin/shscript.main:Cannot tell which …/clang this isafter 30,035 ms, 29,164 ms of it CPU. Here: 0.3 s.The script from Bug: spawnSync never returns: child exit lost (child stays zombie), wait loop busy-spins at 100% CPU re-registering a finished pipe reader (macOS ARM64) #34069 (
spawnsync-spin.test.mjs, unchanged): 8 copies,bun test --isolate --timeout 0, 3 such processes at once held to 4 cores, release builds, alternating between the two.main: wedged in 5 of 60. Here: 0 of 60.21 spawnSync variants (timeout with a grandchild holding the pipe,
maxBuffer, large stdin with an early exit,ENOENT, bad cwd, aborted signals, extra fds,node:child_process) with pidfd,BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_FORCE_WAITER_THREAD,BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_MEMFDandBUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_SPAWNSYNC_FAST_PATH, also in Workers, includingterminate()during the call: the new assert holds.No cost: 3,000 spawns of
/bin/truewith piped stdout and stderr, six interleaved runs each on the same 8 cores,Bun.spawnSync387–405 µs onmainand 388–402 µs here,Bun.spawn395–410 µs and 391–410 µs.bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets. Clippy is clean on the files touched.176 test files on a debug+ASAN build (
spawn/,shell/,child_process/,io/, streams, workers, timers,process, terminal, cron,bun run,bun test --parallel): 156 clean. The other 20 were run again on this and on the previous head of this PR: they fail the same way on both (they need a non-root user, a network or FUSE, or a wall-clock bound does not hold on a loaded debug build), but for 4 timeouts inbun-write.test.jsthat pass 3 of 3 on both when run alone.A flake this PR introduced on the way, and what it was. An intermediate version made
Bun.spawn with a buffer stdin … releases the Subprocess, a test that is onmain, reportleakedWrappers: 1about once in 100 runs under load. Withmain's copy of the file on release builds, 8 at a time on 4 cores:main0 of 800, that version 5 of 800.generateHeapSnapshotForDebugging()while the wrapper is retained: no incoming edge and norootsentry. As a control, a wrapper kept by its own pending activity shows an edge fromStrongRootBlock./proc/self/mem. In all 28 captures (of 3,000 runs ofbun-profile), two adjacent words hold the cell's address. The return addresses above them are the live chain that a top-levelawait's continuation runs under, and with it everyBun.gc()the fixture makes:TimerObjectInternals::fire,EventLoop::exit,VM::drainMicrotasks,MicrotaskQueue::drainImpl<true>,runInternalMicrotask. The two words are in the frame ofrunInternalMicrotask, which never writes them. Next to them are stale return addresses intoSubprocess::on_process_exit(subprocess.rs:1216) andEventLoop::exit: they are callee-saved registers thatEventLoop::exitpushed whileon_process_exitheldthis_jsvalue, in an earlier turn of the loop that got to the same depth. Every later turn builds the same frames at the same addresses, so no number of collections from JS gets rid of them.cellStateshows it marked bySlotVisitor::appendJSCellOrAuxiliaryfrom the conservative scan (Heap.cpp:3719), a breakpoint onConservativeRoots::addfinds one word of the 52,456 bytes scanned that points into the cell (cell+72, andgenericAddPointertakes a pointer into the middle of a cell for one to the cell), and that word is in the frame ofMicrotaskQueue::drainImpl<true>, which does not write it during the collection either.on_process_exitonto those slots: it is reached throughProcess::on_wait_pid, whose frame that version had grown by a(Status, Rusage)temporary for the error path.kill_and_reapis#[cold] #[inline(never)]now and writes to theRusageits caller already has. The fixture alone, 40 at a time on 4 cores, the three builds taking turns: that version 64 of 4,000, this PR 0 of 4,000,main0 of 4,000. No test was changed for this.Not verified: macOS, FreeBSD and Windows at run time, other than by CI. #37968's reproduction needs the reporter's repository and was not run; it is reproduced by its mechanism in the second test above.