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…nstall itself Both linkers take a package that is in place for installed. A failed lifecycle script already removes the trusted packages whose scripts have not finished. Other exits of an install did not, so later installs printed "(no changes)" and never ran those scripts. The main-thread exits of both linker passes now go through Installer::end, PackageInstaller::abort or InstallCtx::end_install. RestoreManager::drop covers an error return of the hoisted pass. Each removes the trusted packages that this install placed, or started a script in. A package that was in place and is newly trusted stays: the install that trusts it again runs its scripts. The isolated linker withdraws the link tasks that have not started (Step::Withdrawn), and then waits for the thread pool. A task that fails discards its entry. The hoisted pass walks its tree paths before it places a package, because lockfile/Tree.rs ends the process at a path that is too long. The node-gyp shim and the directory helpers return their error inside a pass. enqueue_download and enqueue_tarball_for_reading return NoTemporaryDirectory to a linker. Not covered: a killed install, an exit on another thread, a panic.
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Status: ready for review. How it was reproduced: a trusted package is in place and its postinstall has not finished. A patch of another package does not apply, so PR: #46250 |
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WalkthroughInstaller termination now coordinates cleanup of unfinished lifecycle scripts for hoisted and isolated installs. Tarball enqueueing and temporary-directory setup return or handle failures through install-specific paths. ChangesInstall lifecycle and failure handling
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- Line 74: Update the first sentence in the lifecycle documentation to use
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| const { stderr, exitCode } = await install(["--production"], { | ||
| LD_PRELOAD: [shim, bunEnv.LD_PRELOAD].filter(Boolean).join(":"), | ||
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| expect(stderr).toContain("refused a thread"); | ||
| expect(stderr).toContain("failed to link package: b@link:./b"); | ||
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Assert that the links to the trusted entry a are removed.
The test checks the error message and the exit code. It does not check the cleanup that this PR adds.
a is a trusted link: dependency, and its postinstall has not run. On OwnExit, discard_entries_with_unfinished_scripts pushes a into left_out_entries, and unlink_left_out_entries removes the links to it. If that path regresses, node_modules/a stays in place, and this test still passes.
Add one assertion after the exit-code check:
node_modules/ais not a link.
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| const { stderr, exitCode } = await install(["--production"], { | |
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| expect(stderr).toContain("failed to link package: b@link:./b"); | |
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| LD_PRELOAD: [shim, bunEnv.LD_PRELOAD].filter(Boolean).join(":"), | |
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| expect(stderr).toContain("refused a thread"); | |
| expect(stderr).toContain("failed to link package: b@link:./b"); | |
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| // The links to `a` are removed, so the next install runs its postinstall. | |
| expect(await Bun.file(join(String(dir), "node_modules", "a", "package.json")).exists()).toBe(false); | |
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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 nit, I also checked the new Step::Withdrawn variant end to end in src/install/isolated_install/Installer.rs (decode of 9 in Step::from, the next_step unreachable arm, and the early Result::None return in the task loop) and the reorder of the fail-early abort() in on_task_fail after the left_out_entries push, which is what lets unlink_left_out_entries remove the link: symlinks before exit. The has_workers() gate on tasks_in_flight.wait() also looks right, since a pool with no workers would never drain. This is a large change to the exit paths of both linkers and their thread-pool interaction, so a maintainer look is still worthwhile.
Extended reasoning...
The change rewires every main-thread exit of the hoisted and isolated linkers through centralized abort/end helpers that discard trusted packages whose lifecycle scripts have not finished, adding a Withdrawn step for not-yet-started pool tasks and a thread-pool wait before exit. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it does change concurrent thread-pool state transitions and filesystem deletion of node_modules entries. The size (+2444/-190 across 15 files), the atomic step CAS and wait-gating semantics, and the one inline nit decided defer rather than approve.
…n error that comes by timing The row for a package whose blocked scripts cannot be read runs a POSIX script in its second install, so it is skipped on Windows like the rows beside it. After `bun add --trust` of a package that cannot link its own bin, the task of the project can come to that bin before bun has removed the package. The row now accepts that second error. The two poll loops of the pool wait rows end when bun exits or a deadline passes, with what bun printed. The docs say that Bun treats a package in node_modules as installed.
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| // Last first: the link of a workspace is listed before the packages in its `node_modules`, | ||
| // and their path goes through that link. |
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| /// Makes the `node-gyp` shim that the lifecycle scripts of this process find on PATH. If this | ||
| /// returns `Ok(false)`, it printed why there is none, and the caller ends the process. |
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| /// A tarball is extracted in the temporary directory. A linker pass ends the install itself, so | ||
| /// it gets the error. For every other caller, the task that is made next ends the process. |
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| /// bar. Before that, on an early return of the pass, it discards the packages that the pass placed | ||
| /// and whose scripts did not finish. |
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| /// `tree::Iterator` ends the process at a tree whose path is too long, or has an unsafe folder | ||
| /// name. This finds such a tree before the pass places a package. |
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| // The scripts of what is left could not be read or started. Like a package whose script | ||
| // failed, each is removed, also one that was in place. |
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| /// Called on the main thread when the task of the entry failed on the thread pool. This is not | ||
| /// part of `on_task_fail`, because `relink_bins_of_members_with_scripts` also calls that one, | ||
| /// after the scripts have run. |
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| // The entry can be in place, and its scripts have not finished. An entry that is as this | ||
| // install found it only goes if the next install finds it trusted without being told | ||
| // again: that install would run nothing. |
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| /// Returns true if the install goes on, and the next install finds the entry trusted too. | ||
| /// `--trust` only records a name once the scripts of its entry are known. |
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| /// Called on the main thread, before bun ends the install. An entry that stays at its final | ||
| /// path counts as installed, so its scripts would never run. |
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| // A task that hasn't started must not start, because it would put its entry in place. A | ||
| // task that runs stores its next step over this. |
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| // A task that still runs would put its entry in place after the loop below has looked at | ||
| // it. A pool without a worker runs no task, so the wait would not end. |
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| // The task failed, and `run_tasks` has not taken that result. It takes the entry | ||
| // away if it does. |
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| // It isn't known yet whether the entry has scripts: a bun.lock written by an | ||
| // older Bun doesn't record that. |
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| // Also remove the symlinks to a `link:` dependency, because `start_link_task` takes | ||
| // them to mean that its scripts already ran. |
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| /// `Installer::discard_entries_with_unfinished_scripts` set it. A task that starts with it | ||
| /// does nothing. A task that runs stores its next step over it. |
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| /// Returns true if this install put the entry in place, or started one of its scripts. Called | ||
| /// on the main thread while the task doesn't run. |
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| /// A package that the hoisted linker has at `node_modules/<folder_name>` of a tree, and whose | ||
| /// scripts haven't all run yet. |
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| /// True if this install placed the package, or has started one of its scripts. False for a | ||
| /// newly trusted package that is as the install found it. |
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| /// Why bun removes the trusted packages whose scripts have not finished. Both linkers treat a | ||
| /// package that's at its final path as installed, so one that stays never has its scripts run. |
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| /// bun ends the install for another reason, and saves nothing. A newly trusted package that | ||
| /// is as the install found it stays: an install that trusts it again runs its scripts. |
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| /// Ends the process from inside a linker pass that is not in hand. Without a `ctx`, the | ||
| /// scripts are not those of a linker pass. |
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The latest push addresses the poll-loop note from my earlier review (both until loops now give up on exit or deadline with the captured stderr), and this run found no bugs; because the core commit rewires every main-thread exit of both linkers and adds thread-pool withdrawal/wait logic, a human look is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed: the Step::Withdrawn compare-exchange and the tasks_in_flight.wait() skip when the pool has no workers (a running task overwrites Withdrawn with its next step, so the post-wait discard loop only skips tasks that never ran); the reordering in on_task_fail that moves the fail-early/patch exit after left_out_entries.push (the link: symlinks are now removed by abort before exit, where previously they were not); the on_task_run_fail / stays_trusted split for a task that fails while the install goes on; and the test-only second commit (Windows skip, the accepted timing-dependent second error at test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts:3977, and the bounded poll loops).
Extended reasoning...
The change spans 12 source files in src/install (both linkers, the script runner, the enqueue and directory helpers) plus ~2,000 lines of new tests and a source lint; it replaces every direct Global::exit/crash in the install passes with funnels that delete trusted packages from node_modules before exiting, and adds a withdraw-then-wait step for the isolated linker's thread pool. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it deletes user-visible files on error paths and coordinates with pool threads via atomics. The only commit since my prior review is test tweaks that resolve my one inline note, and the bug hunt ran dry, which is why a note rather than silence is posted; the size and cross-thread exit semantics are why it is a defer rather than an approval.
Problem
bun installcan end itself with exit 1 while a trusted package is in place with unfinished lifecycle scripts. Later installs print(no changes)and never run them.Global::exit(1)aftererror: failed applying patch file(src/install/isolated_install/Installer.rs:520).Fix
Installer::end,PackageInstaller::abortorInstallCtx::end_install. They first remove the trusted packages that this install placed, or started a script in.test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts(main fails 65 of 111 rows). Also a new lint andtest/cli/install/.Background
Downsides
node_moduleslacks the trusted packages that the install placed and did not finish..text+2,816 bytes.Notes
Found by inspection. No user reported it. "Own exit" below means that bun ends the install itself with exit 1, with no failed script and no signal.
The rule
Ending::FailedScript): every trusted package whose scripts have not finished goes. main does this since install: consolidate the open package manager pull requests #44968.Ending::OwnExit) saves nothing. Only what this install changed goes: a package that it placed, or one in which it started a script.bun patchedit in it. The install that trusts it again runs its scripts.Installer::on_task_run_fail). A newly trusted entry then goes only if the next install finds it trusted without--trust.1 package installedandFailed to install 1 package, and exits 1. The only known cause is a package path atPATH_MAX, and then every install does the same.The exits
isolated_install/Installer.rs:520: a patch that does not apply, a failed package with--productionInstaller::abortisolated_install.rs:2297,:2374,:2633,:2663Installer::abortInstaller::abort_withoutPackageInstaller.rs:936,:1082,:1681,:2571,:2592PackageInstaller::abortbun linkpackagesPackageInstaller::abort_withoutRestoreManager::dropInstallCtx::end_installwithFailedScriptnode-gypshim cannot be writtenInstallCtx::end_installwithOwnExitlockfile/Tree.rs:339,:402: a tree path that is too long, an unsafe folder namecheck_tree_pathsreaches them before the hoisted pass places a packageInstaller::abortandPackageInstaller::abortare not the only exits of an install. The lintinstall-pass-exits.test.tskeeps a literal exit out of the pass files once the pass object exists, and out of the script runner. It fails on main (5 of 7 tests) and passes here. It does not see an exit in other code that a pass calls, an exit on another thread, a panic, or a failed allocation.The helpers that printed and exited inside a pass now return their error: the
node-gypshim, and thetry_forms of the directory helpers.enqueue_downloadandenqueue_tarball_for_readingreturnForTarballError::NoTemporaryDirectoryto a linker, and to no other caller.Rows (Linux x64, main 91e7e3b)
a patch of an installed package that does not apply, 1 of 3 release runs).does not use 100% cpu, which fail on main's debug build in this container too.test/cli/install/, release build, 100 files: 97 pass.semver.test.tsneeds a package that is not installed here.bun-install-git-deps.test.tsandbun-security-scanner-matrix-without-node-modules.test.tstime out in some tests, on main's build too. 4 other files had timeouts in one run and passed in the next.LD_PRELOADshim run on glibc Linux with a C compiler.Since when (hoisted linker, a trusted
depis in place and its script waits, then a patch of another package does not apply)EINVAL),depstays, never builtdepstays, never builtdepENOENT),depstays, never builtdepstays, never builtdepdepstays, never builtdepWith
--productionand a tarball that answers 404 (isolated linker), 1.4.2, the 1.4.3 canary and main never run the script to its end. So the defect is in releases. Only the last patch row is new since 1.4.3.Each clause reverted alone
One debug build has a switch per clause, 35 switches. With each switch alone, at least one row fails:
abort(37 rows), none in the drop (17), the failed-script rule inabort(2) or in the drop (4), first placed first (4), trees restored before the discard (1), no discard at the end of the pass (2),changedalways true (6), no record of a started script (2), theErrarm without itsRUN_SCRIPTStest (1), no walk of the tree paths (1).--ignore-scriptsthat discards (1), a failed task that bun has not looked at: never discarded (1), always discarded (1), alink:entry that keeps its links (1).is_changed(2), without the newly trusted arm (2), withoutstays_trusted(3), without its scripts clause (1), without its--productionclause (2), with--ignore-scripts(1).Two clauses have no row on every build:
discard_entries_with_unfinished_scriptswith--ignore-scriptsand nolink:entry to unlink. It saves the wait and changes nothing on disk.has_workers()test. Its row is inbun-install-thread-spawn-failure.test.ts, which ASAN builds skip. It passes on release builds.Measurements (release builds of main 91e7e3b and of this diff on it, Linux x64. 200 packages, 5 trusted with a postinstall, unless said)
.text+2,816 bytes,.rodata+0 (llvm-size -A).node_modules: 3,168 to 3,174 and 3,487 to 3,488 on both builds.node_modulesfolder, not per package. 1,177 packages in 191 folders, hoisted, warm no-op: 85,363,704 -> 85,475,157 instructions (+0.13%).linkat,renameat,mkdirat,symlink,unlinkatandgetdents64calls. A cold hoisted install makes 1,446openatcalls on both builds, plus 1 to 17 for each time it opensnode_modulesagain (40 runs).try_get_temporary_directory: a cold install calls it 201 -> 401 times (+1 per tarball that a linker enqueues). It returns the cached directory, with no syscall.--production, 4 threads, a tarball answers 404 after 100 tarballs. From the error line to the exit, 5 batches of 7 to 11 runs: medians 248 to 456 ms (main: 9 to 34 ms). It makes no difference whether a trusted package is in place. During that time the pool extracts 50 to 110 tarballs that were queued.renameat, and the exit waited for them. main: 1 of 43 (4.8 s).Not covered
--cafileof a file that is not there, bun stops withHTTPThread: could not find CA file. The trusted package was in place and never built in 13 of 40 runs (hoisted) and 2 of 40 (isolated) on main, and in 11 and 1 of 40 here. The docs name this case.bunxhas a marker of its own (BUNX_UNFINISHED_PACKAGE_JSONinrunTasks.rs). This PR changes nothing there.Other open pull requests
PackageInstaller.rsandlifecycle_script_runner.rs. The one that lands second must put those packages throughdiscard_unfinished, or an own exit leaves them in place.link:rows here cover the exit only. A record of whichlink:folder is built is on the branchrobobun/759732a2/link-entry-completion-record, with no pull request. It waits for the answer on install: list unfinished lifecycle scripts per project, so the install after a killed one runs them #42001.The rejected concern
The review asked for a row in
bun-install-staging.test.tswhere a failed script comes while an untrusted package is linked in place. The wait for the pool is one statement again, as on main, and three rows fail without it: an own exit at the rename of a trusted package, an own exit at the link to alink:folder, and a failed script at that rename. A fourth row would test the same statement.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/bun-install-thread-spawn-failure.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts