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`$?` is the exit code of the statement, or of the `&&` or `||` operand, that ran last. `$$` is the process ID of the shell. Before, the shell passed both to the command as text. The lexer reads them after a `$` that starts no variable name, so a `$NAME` takes the same path as before. `Stmt::child_done` and `Binary::child_done` store the exit code in the shell environment. Both forms also expand inside double quotes. `$$(cmd)` stays a `$` and a `$(cmd)`. shell-hang.test.ts had `sh -c "kill -40 $$"`, which now sends the signal to the test runner: the test uses single quotes. Its six fixture tests keep the 700 ms timeout except on a debug build, which needs 0.4 to 1.8 s for each when six start at once.
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…ange) This branch is parked. #45490 has the `$?` and `$$` part. `${NAME}` is #45032. The two commits below this one are the earlier, larger shape. A review of them found these items. Do them before this work is proposed. Commit 1 (expansions): - `param_text_braces` goes up in any quote state and comes down only in the state of the word. `echo ${S:-"${Y%z}"} mid; echo second` prints `set` and drops the rest. Count only where the `}` arm would close the word. - A word with no `}` must be a lexer error (`Unclosed parameter expansion`), as for `$(`. Delete the rollback, the `param_unclosed` memo and the `Eof` sentinel: 896 KB of unclosed heads lex in 5.4 s. - A quoted word must stay in `CharState::Double` up to its `}`. An inner `"` only flips a bit that decides if `}` closes. `\}` is a `}` there. Today `"${X:-"$(echo p q)"}"` gives 2 arguments (dash and bash: 1), `"${X:-"it's done"}"` stays text, and `"${X:-a\}b}"` gives `a\b}` (dash: `a}b`). - `Step::EndField` next to `~`, `{a,b}` or `*`: `~/.cache${S:+ --force}` gives `[/.cache][~--force]`, `{a,b}${X:-c }` gives an extra empty argument, and `echo *.js${S:+ --flag}` fails with `no matches found: --flag`. Check the trailing break before the brace and glob passes, and apply the leading tilde to the first field. - `${X:-"" b}` loses the empty argument: keep a quoted-empty flag for each field. - `SubShellKind::ParamWord` makes `eat_subshell` hold an unreachable arm (mordant `param_wider_than_callers`): keep the word context in its own lexer field. `append_var_argv -> bool` folds a `self_exe_path()` failure into "not set" (mordant `error_collapsed_to_bool`). - `ParamHead.skip` and the `open_params` stack of the parser cost 5 instructions for each `parse_atom` call. `Expansion::next` can find the matching `ParamEnd` with a depth counter. - `if !head.op.falls_back_to_value() { out.truncate(len) }` is dead. - `ends_in_param_ref` copies the head grammar of the lexer by hand: add a generated test that a plain interpolated string and a string reference give the same non-text tokens after `$` and `${` plus each tail of up to 2 bytes of `${}?:-+a1\#!@`. `$\FOO${"BAR"}` expands `$FOOBAR` on main too. - Tests to add: `-` and `+` with a set, an empty and an unset parameter and with argument numbers; nested forms where the used and the unused word differ; the word guards (`[[`, `]]`, `#`, a digit before `>`, a quoted `}`); the table again in a script with a non-ASCII byte; a checked-in dash reference table. - With `${NAME}`, an unset `"${X}"` gives no word: `[ -d "${X}" ]` passes and `cd "${X}"` goes to `$HOME`. #44904 makes it one empty word, so it must land first. - A prefix assignment is not seen: `A=x B=${A:-y} cmd` gives `y`. Commit 2 (parse errors): no maintainer asked for it. If it returns: one line for each error, a kind on `LexError`, and the hint about `--shell=system` printed by the caller only for a package.json script. It also rejects text that runs today: `"${{ x }}"`, `"$#"`, `sh -c "echo hi $@" -- a b`.
WalkthroughThe shell parser now recognizes ChangesShell special parameter expansion
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The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: shell expansion for $? and $$. |
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The description explains the problem, implementation, behavior, scope, verification, performance impact, and known differences. It does not use the template headings exactly, but it provides the requi… |
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Issue #17396 requires $$ to expand to the shell process PID. The lexer and AST represent $$ as SpecialParam::Pid, and Expansion::expand_simple_no_io writes std::process::id(). Tests cover `B… |
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The $? implementation, documentation, parser tests, and execution tests match the current PR description and use the same shell special-parameter and exit-state machinery. The shell-hang quoting c… |
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#17396requires$$to expand to the shell process PID. The lexer and AST represent$$asSpecialParam::Pid, andExpansion::expand_simple_no_iowritesstd::process::id(). Tests coverBun.$, scripts, quotes, words, subshells, and command substitutions. The implementation satisfies the linked issue.
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$?implementation, documentation, parser tests, and execution tests match the current PR description and use the same shell special-parameter and exit-state machinery. Theshell-hangquoting change is required because$$now expands, and the debug timeout change supports the affected test suite. No unrelated production change is shown.
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| // Six debug builds that start at once need 0.4 to 1.8 s each. The default timeout still catches a hang. | ||
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Use Bun’s default test timeout.
The explicit 700 ms timeout violates test/AGENTS.md. Remove it from both fixture suites. This preserves Bun’s default hang detection and does not imply a test failure.
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| // `$?` does not see the status of an assignment from `$(...)` today. #45074 and #37839 change this row to 1. | ||
| TestBuilder.command`X=$(false); echo $?`.stdout("0\n").runAsTest("after an assignment from a $(...) that fails"); | ||
| TestBuilder.command`shell_test_no_such_command; echo $?` | ||
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| .stderr("bun: command not found: shell_test_no_such_command\n") | ||
| .runAsTest("after a command that is not found"); |
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🟡 nit (optional): Two new tests lock in values the PR itself calls wrong, so the follow-up PRs must flip assertions instead of un-todoing them. bunshell.test.ts:1268 asserts X=$(false); echo $? prints "0\n" and bunshell.test.ts:1269 asserts a missing command gives $? of 1, where sh gives 1 and 127. Fix: assert the sh values ("1\n" and "127\n") and mark both rows .todo("#45074") / .todo("command not found should be 127") via TestBuilder's todo() at test_builder.ts:279, so they start passing when the behaviour is corrected and no test certifies the divergence.
Why this was flagged
The describe block at bunshell.test.ts:1236 adds TestBuilder.commandX=$(false); echo $?.stdout("0\n") (line 1268) with a comment saying #45074 and #37839 change this row to 1, and shell_test_no_such_command; echo $? expecting "1\n" (lines 1269-1272) where POSIX sh yields 127. The PR description lists both as known divergences. The repository review rules reject assertions captured from known-wrong behaviour and ask that todo tests be un-skipped by the fixing change. TestBuilder already supports .todo(reason) (test_builder.ts:279-291), which runs the case under test.todo so it is reported when it starts passing. On the base branch neither test exists; after merging, a maintainer landing #45074 or #37839 gets a failing assertion to rewrite rather than a todo to remove.
Verification: nit; acknowledged in diff: /home/claude/bun/test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts:1268 pins the divergent value: X=$(false); echo $?.stdout("0\n"). Triggering condition: whichever of #45074/#37839 lands must now flip a green assertion instead of un-todoing a row. One listed site does NOT carry the defect: the row at lines 1269-1272 asserts $? = 1, which is Bun's established, already-pinned behaviour.
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🟡 nit (optional): Debug builds lose the 700 ms hang guard on six fixture tests, which is unrelated to $?/$$ and raises a timeout to make slow tests pass. The repository review rules say to shrink the workload rather than raise per-test timeouts, and this change is not part of the PR's purpose. Fix: keep 700 for all builds (or drop the unrelated change from this PR) and address debug-build slowness separately, e.g. by running the fixtures serially or scaling the timeout with a stated multiplier instead of removing the bound.
Why this was flagged
The PR only needs the kill -40 $$ quoting change at shell-hang.test.ts:49. The added const timeout = isDebug ? undefined : 700 at shell-hang.test.ts:6 replaces the explicit 700 ms bound at lines 29 and 41 with the runner default on debug builds. A regression that makes a fixture hang is then only caught after the default timeout instead of 700 ms, and the author's own note says these tests already fail on main in debug builds, so the change is unrelated to the feature. On the base branch every build gets the 700 ms bound.
Verification: test/js/bun/shell/shell-hang.test.ts:5-6 adds const timeout = isDebug ? undefined : 700;, and lines 29 and 41 now pass timeout instead of the literal 700 to the six test.concurrent.each fixtures, so on a debug build a hang is still caught, only after ~5 s instead of 700 ms. Release/CI builds keep 700 ms; debug builds lose only the tightness of the hang bound, not the detection itself.
| // `$?` does not see the status of an assignment from `$(...)` today. #45074 and #37839 change this row to 1. | ||
| TestBuilder.command`X=$(false); echo $?`.stdout("0\n").runAsTest("after an assignment from a $(...) that fails"); |
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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: Users who check a command substitution's status with X=$(cmd); [[ $? -ne 0 ]] && exit 1 now get 0 and the script silently continues, where sh stops. The 0 comes from Assigns.rs:80, which reports exit 0 for every standalone assignment even though the Expansion already carries the failed $(...) status in out_exit_code. Fix: make a standalone assignment's exit status the out_exit_code of its last $(...) expansion (POSIX: a command with no name completes with the status of the last command substitution), so $? reads 1 here; the test row at bunshell.test.ts:1268 then asserts 1, not 0. The PR text calls this accepted pending #45074, but the wrong value is new user-visible behaviour: on the base branch $? was the literal text, which no script could mistake for success.
A small fix can ride a push you are already making; otherwise a short reply is enough.
Why this was flagged
Trigger: any Bun shell script (Bun.$, bun exec, bun run --shell=bun, and every package.json script on Windows) that runs X=$(cmd) where cmd exits nonzero and then reads $?. Assigns.rs:80 (interp.child_done(parent, this, 0)) always reports 0 for a standalone assignment; it drops out.out_exit_code, which Expansion.rs:657 set from the failed $(...) script. Stmt.rs:81 then stores that 0 in last_exit_code, and Expansion.rs:508 expands $? to 0. On the base branch $? was not expanded at all, so [[ $? -ne 0 ]] never evaluated to 'success'; after merging, the idiom X=$(cmd); [[ $? -ne 0 ]] && exit 1 silently proceeds past a failed cmd. sh and bash both print 1 for this script. No safeguard covers it: dupe_for_subshell copies last_exit_code into the $(...) env and never writes it back, and nothing else reads out_exit_code on the Assigns path.
Verification: src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs:656-657 sets me.out_exit_code = exit_code when the sole atom is a $(...) that failed; src/runtime/shell/states/Assigns.rs:100 takes that out but never reads out_exit_code; Assigns.rs:78-81 unconditionally reports 0 for a standalone assignment. The new line src/runtime/shell/states/Stmt.rs:81 then stores that 0, and Expansion.rs:505-513 expands $? to 0.
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🟣 pre-existing, not blocking: pre-existing, nit: a script that ends with a bare exit still exits 0 after a failed command, while exit $? now works, so the two spellings disagree. POSIX exit with no operand uses the last exit status, which this PR now stores in ShellExecEnv.last_exit_code (Expansion.rs:508) but exit.rs:22 still maps zero arguments to 0. Fix: make the no-argument exit builtin read base.shell().last_exit_code so false; exit, exit and exit $? agree, and add a false; exit; echo $? style test next to the new $? cases.
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Why this was flagged
A Bun shell script such as some-check; exit run through Bun.$, bun exec, bun run --shell=bun or any package.json script on Windows reaches the exit builtin with zero arguments. src/runtime/shell/builtin/exit.rs:22 maps 0 => 0, so the Cmd completes with exit code 0 regardless of the previous command's status. On the base branch the same script also exits 0 (the state did not exist), so this is pre-existing; but the diff now records the last status in ShellExecEnv.last_exit_code (src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs:1806, written at src/runtime/shell/states/Stmt.rs:81 and src/runtime/shell/states/Binary.rs:84) and expands it for $? at src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs:508, so false; exit $? yields 1 while false; exit still yields 0. sh yields 1 for both. No guard prevents it: exit never consults the env. The PR text lists X=$(false) and command-not-found as the only $? divergences and does not mention bare exit.
Verification: pre-existing (nit). Trigger: any Bun shell script that runs a bare exit after a failing command, e.g. false; exit. src/runtime/shell/builtin/exit.rs:21-22 still maps match bltn.args_slice().len() { 0 => 0, ... }, so a bare exit always completes the Cmd with code 0. The base branch behaves identically for bare exit, so merging makes nothing worse.
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Fixes #17396
Problem
$?and$$to the command as text, with exit 0.await Bun.$`echo $$`prints$$.eat_var(src/shell_parser/parse.rs) finds no name after$, the lexer keeps the$as text.Fix
$?and$$aSpecialParamtoken.Stmt::child_doneandBinary::child_donestore each exit code inShellExecEnv.last_exit_code.$$is the Bun process ID.$NAMEdoes not reach the new code. A$(...)or(...)gets a copy of the exit code, as insh.test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts(22 new tests fail on main). Alsolex,parse,exec,run-shell,shell-hang.shell-hang.test.tstimeout (Notes).Background
ShellExecEnvis the state of one shell scope. A subshell or a$(...)runs on a copy.${...}family of shell: implement$?,$$,$#, and${NAME}; reject unsupported expansions #33274 in one PR: 800 source lines, and defects in the operator part. This is the part with no open question.${NAME}is shell: expand${NAME}the same way as$NAME#45032.Downsides
$?and$$expand, also in double quotes.sh -c "echo $$"now prints the ID of Bun.$?is 0 afterX=$(false)(sh: 1, shell: record the last command substitution status per command and expand words first #45074 changes it) and 1 after a command that is not found (sh: 127).true: 4,197 instructions before, 4,190 after. Allocations are equal. The binary grows by 768 bytes.Notes
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$?is the exit code of the statement that ran last. Aftera && bora || bit is the exit code of the operand that ran last. It starts at 0 in each script.ifcondition and a subshell set it through the statement that holds them. The word$(cmd)$?reads the value from beforecmd(dash does the same, bash reads the status ofcmd).$$is the ID of the Bun process, also inside(...)and$(...), which run in the same process. Each$$is onegetpidcall.'$?',\$?,$\?.$$(cmd)stays a$and a$(cmd), as on main. Inshthis spelling is a syntax error, so no script forshuses it, and a Bun script that prints a$before a number keeps its output.$`echo $${"?"}`prints$?. The builder already passes a value after$by reference.${?}and${$}stay text, as every${...}form does on main.What is not in this PR
robobun/0377cbbb/shell-param-expansionhas the earlier, larger shape:${NAME},${N}, the operators:-,-,:+,+, and parse errors for the other forms. The self-review found defects in the operator part and no maintainer ruling for the parse errors, so it is not proposed here.${NAME}is shell: expand${NAME}the same way as$NAME#45032. It is a draft that waits for shell: keep an empty word that has a double-quoted expansion #44904.$#,$@,$*,$!,$-and every${...}form stay text.Open PRs that touch the same code
${NAME}the same way as$NAME#45032 and shell: record the last command substitution status per command and expand words first #45074 merge with this branch with no conflict (git merge-tree).SimpleAtom::is_quoted_expansionhas no wildcard arm and needsSpecialParam => false:"$?"and"$$"are never empty.X=$(false); echo $?from0to1. The test has a comment that names them.Measurements
Release builds (LTO) of the merge base e4c638f and of this commit, linux x64.
valgrind,straceandperfare not in my environment. Instruction counts are user-space instructions fromperf_event_open: for a whole process, and between the entry and the return of one function withptracebreakpoints. Call counts are from hardware breakpoint counters.trueX=1echo a > /dev/nulltrue && trueecho $X > /dev/nullecho ${X} > /dev/null(a$that starts no name)Lexer::lexper unit:$NAME848 then 849,$1447 then 446,$NAMEin a script with a non-ASCII byte 1,033 then 1,035. The other 15 units that I measured are equal (space,;, newline, quoted character, plain character,{a,b},*,$(...), redirect, pipeline).true: 1,279.5 then 1,281.5). The interpreter part is smaller by more than that.true10.10,echo a17.11,false; echo $?27.09, equal on both builds.ShellExecEnv368 bytes,Node176,Token12,SimpleAtom24. None changed.size, text): 106,380,627 then 106,381,395. The file size is equal.$?(for exampleflow; test $? -eq 0 -o $? -eq 2), none uses$$.Tests
bunshell22 fail,lex6,parse1,exec2,run-shell2. With this change, on a debug and ASAN build:bunshell.test.ts477 pass, the other five files 103 pass.shell-hang.test.tshadsh -c "kill -40 $$". With this change that sends the signal to the test runner, so the test uses single quotes.bun run rust:mordant(three targets) andcargo clippyreport nothing new.