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43 changes: 20 additions & 23 deletions test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -1061,14 +1061,12 @@ describe("Bun.build", () => {
// descriptor in the resolver. A second in-process Bun.build() used to reuse a
// descriptor the first build had already closed, failing with EBADF. The test
// host must also import the package so its fd is cached before the builds run.
test.concurrent.skipIf(isWindows)(
"repeated in-process builds of a symlinked package do not reuse a closed fd",
async () => {
using dir = tempDir("build-symlink-fd-cache", {
"vendor/pkg/package.json": `{"name":"pkg","version":"1.0.0","type":"module","exports":"./index.js"}`,
"vendor/pkg/index.js": `export const value = 1;\n`,
"entry.ts": `import { value } from "pkg";\nconsole.log(value);\n`,
"repro.test.ts": `
test.concurrent("repeated in-process builds of a symlinked package do not reuse a closed fd", async () => {
using dir = tempDir("build-symlink-fd-cache", {
"vendor/pkg/package.json": `{"name":"pkg","version":"1.0.0","type":"module","exports":"./index.js"}`,
"vendor/pkg/index.js": `export const value = 1;\n`,
"entry.ts": `import { value } from "pkg";\nconsole.log(value);\n`,
"repro.test.ts": `
import { it } from "bun:test";
import { value } from "pkg";
void value;
Expand All @@ -1082,22 +1080,21 @@ describe("Bun.build", () => {
console.log("ALL_BUILDS_OK");
});
`,
});
mkdirSync(join(String(dir), "node_modules"), { recursive: true });
symlinkSync("../vendor/pkg", join(String(dir), "node_modules", "pkg"));
});
mkdirSync(join(String(dir), "node_modules"), { recursive: true });
symlinkSync("../vendor/pkg", join(String(dir), "node_modules", "pkg"));

await using proc = Bun.spawn({
cmd: [bunExe(), "test", "repro.test.ts"],
env: bunEnv,
cwd: String(dir),
stdout: "pipe",
stderr: "pipe",
});
const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
expect(stdout + stderr).toContain("ALL_BUILDS_OK");
expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
},
);
await using proc = Bun.spawn({
cmd: [bunExe(), "test", "repro.test.ts"],
env: bunEnv,
cwd: String(dir),
stdout: "pipe",
stderr: "pipe",
});
const [stdout, stderr, exitCode] = await Promise.all([proc.stdout.text(), proc.stderr.text(), proc.exited]);
expect(stdout + stderr).toContain("ALL_BUILDS_OK");
expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
});

test.concurrent("errors are returned as an array", async () => {
const x = await buildNoThrow({
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8 changes: 3 additions & 5 deletions test/cli/bake/bake.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -464,8 +464,7 @@ test.concurrent.each([
expect(response).toBe("200 1");
});

// Creating a symlink on Windows needs a privilege that CI does not have.
test.concurrent.skipIf(isWindows)("bun bake serves pages that are symlinks or in a symlinked folder", async () => {
test.concurrent("bun bake serves pages that are symlinks or in a symlinked folder", async () => {
using dir = tempDir("bake-command-symlink", {
"shared/page.html": `<!doctype html><html><body><h1>Shared</h1></body></html>`,
"shared/docs/intro.html": `<!doctype html><html><body><h1>Intro</h1></body></html>`,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -792,9 +791,8 @@ test.concurrent("bun bake runs the SIGTERM handlers before it starts again for b
await output.waitFor(/SIGTERM before restart/);
});

// On a terminal, `bun bake` adds its own SIGTERM listener, which exits. Bun.spawn's `terminal` is
// POSIX only.
test.concurrent.skipIf(isWindows)(
// On a terminal, `bun bake` adds its own SIGTERM listener, which exits.
test.concurrent(
"on a terminal, bun bake runs every SIGTERM listener before it starts again for bake.config.ts",
async () => {
const server = (version: string) => `
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45 changes: 21 additions & 24 deletions test/cli/check/check.test.ts
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -2911,7 +2911,7 @@ export const a: number[] = [file, one, two];
});

// Opening such a pipe blocks until a writer opens it. package.json is opened to look for a "check" script.
test.skipIf(isWindows)("doesn't hang when package.json is a symlink to a named pipe with no writer", async () => {
test("doesn't hang when package.json is a symlink to a named pipe with no writer", async () => {
using dir = project({ "a.ts": `export {};\n` });
expect(Bun.spawnSync(["mkfifo", join(String(dir), "pipe")]).exitCode).toBe(0);
symlinkSync("pipe", join(String(dir), "package.json"));
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3035,7 +3035,7 @@ export const a: number[] = [file, one, two];
expect(exitCode).toBe(1);
});

test.skipIf(process.platform === "win32")("ignores a named pipe in the project directory", async () => {
test("ignores a named pipe in the project directory", async () => {
using dir = project({ "a.ts": `export const a: string = 1;\n` });
// Reading a pipe without a writer blocks forever.
expect(Bun.spawnSync(["mkfifo", join(String(dir), "pipe.ts")]).exitCode).toBe(0);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -24276,28 +24276,25 @@ describe.concurrent("--check", () => {
});

// The path is compared as `bun run` spells it.
test.skipIf(isWindows)(
"`bun check` type checks in a `check` script started by a Bun that sets only BUN_INTERNAL_CHECK_SCRIPTS",
async () => {
using dir = project({
"package.json": JSON.stringify({ scripts: { check: "echo the script ran" } }),
"tsconfig.json": tsconfig,
"a.ts": `export const a: number = "1";\n`,
});
const cwd = String(dir);
const results = await Promise.all([
run(cwd, ["check", "--pretty", "false"], { BUN_INTERNAL_CHECK_SCRIPTS: `${Buffer.byteLength(cwd)}:${cwd}` }),
// Another package's path.
run(cwd, ["check", "--pretty", "false"], { BUN_INTERNAL_CHECK_SCRIPTS: `2:/x` }),
]);
expect(
results.map(it => [it.stdout.includes("TS2322"), it.stdout.includes("the script ran"), it.exitCode]),
).toEqual([
[true, false, 1],
[false, true, 0],
]);
},
);
test("`bun check` type checks in a `check` script started by a Bun that sets only BUN_INTERNAL_CHECK_SCRIPTS", async () => {
using dir = project({
"package.json": JSON.stringify({ scripts: { check: "echo the script ran" } }),
"tsconfig.json": tsconfig,
"a.ts": `export const a: number = "1";\n`,
});
const cwd = String(dir);
const results = await Promise.all([
run(cwd, ["check", "--pretty", "false"], { BUN_INTERNAL_CHECK_SCRIPTS: `${Buffer.byteLength(cwd)}:${cwd}` }),
// Another package's path.
run(cwd, ["check", "--pretty", "false"], { BUN_INTERNAL_CHECK_SCRIPTS: `2:/x` }),
]);
expect(
results.map(it => [it.stdout.includes("TS2322"), it.stdout.includes("the script ran"), it.exitCode]),
).toEqual([
[true, false, 1],
[false, true, 0],
]);
});

test("--check with --filter, --parallel or --sequential checks the project before the scripts", async () => {
using dir = project({
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6 changes: 3 additions & 3 deletions test/cli/create/create-jsx.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ for (const development of [true, false]) {
});
});

test.todoIf(isCI || isWindows)("dev server", async () => {
test.todoIf(isCI)("dev server", async () => {

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🔴 Windows developers running this file locally now get three "dev server" tests that fail or hang, where the base marked them todo there, and no CI lane can have verified them. test/cli/create/create-jsx.test.ts:129 (and :196, :262) keeps todoIf(isCI), so on every Buildkite lane these tests are skipped as todo and never ran; the PR's own pass criterion cannot have applied. The sibling "build" test at :164 starts with the same bun create ./index.jsx plus getServerUrl and stays todoIf(isWindows), which says that flow still fails on Windows. Fix: keep isCI || isWindows on the three dev-server tests until a Windows run exists that shows them passing.

Why this was flagged

The trigger is a developer running bun bd test test/cli/create/create-jsx.test.ts on Windows, where isCI is false. On the base branch test.todoIf(isCI || isWindows) at :129, :196 and :262 made the three dev-server tests todo there. After the change they run: they spawn bun create ./index.jsx (:131), wait for a server URL, fetch the page and compare two snapshots (:144, :158). On CI the tests are still todo because isCI is true, so neither Windows lane ever executed them; the PR's stated rule that a skip is removed only when the test passed on both Windows lanes was not satisfiable for these. The same file keeps the "build" test at :164 as todoIf(isWindows), and that test begins with the identical bun create ./index.jsx and getServerUrl step (:166-173), which is the author's own evidence that the create flow is not known to work on Windows. Remedy: restore the Windows term on the three dev-server tests, or run them on a Windows lane before removing it.

Verification: normal — triggered when a developer runs this file locally on Windows (isCI false), where the three "dev server" tests now execute instead of being todo. isCI is process.env.CI !== undefined (test/harness.ts:42), so on every Buildkite lane these tests remain todo and were never executed. Fix is to restore isWindows on :129, :196, :262 as was done at :301.

console.log({ dir });
await using process = Bun.spawn([bunExe(), "create", "./index.jsx"], {
cwd: dir,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ for (const development of [true, false]) {
});
});

test.todoIf(isCI || isWindows)("dev server", async () => {
test.todoIf(isCI)("dev server", async () => {
const process = Bun.spawn([bunExe(), "create", "./index.tsx"], {
cwd: dir,
env: env,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ for (const development of [true, false]) {
});
});

test.todoIf(isCI || isWindows)("dev server", async () => {
test.todoIf(isCI)("dev server", async () => {
const process = Bun.spawn([bunExe(), "create", "./index.tsx"], {
cwd: dir,
env: env,
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46 changes: 20 additions & 26 deletions test/cli/format/format.test.ts
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -521,20 +521,17 @@ describe.concurrent("bun fmt", () => {
expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
});

// A file name can have at most 255 bytes. On Windows the path would also be too long.
test.skipIf(isWindows)(
"can have the longest possible name, and is still replaced rather than written in place",
async () => {
const name = `${Buffer.alloc(252, "a")}.ts`;
using dir = tempDir("bun-format", { [name]: ugly });
const before = statSync(join(String(dir), name)).ino;
const { exitCode } = await write(String(dir), []);
expect(read(String(dir), name)).toBe(formatted);
expect(statSync(join(String(dir), name)).ino).not.toBe(before);
expect(readdirSync(String(dir))).toEqual([name]);
expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
},
);
// A file name can have at most 255 bytes.
test("can have the longest possible name, and is still replaced rather than written in place", async () => {
const name = `${Buffer.alloc(252, "a")}.ts`;
using dir = tempDir("bun-format", { [name]: ugly });
const before = statSync(join(String(dir), name)).ino;
const { exitCode } = await write(String(dir), []);
expect(read(String(dir), name)).toBe(formatted);
expect(statSync(join(String(dir), name)).ino).not.toBe(before);
expect(readdirSync(String(dir))).toEqual([name]);
expect(exitCode).toBe(0);
});

// For example in a container with a user's project mounted into it.
test.skipIf(!isRoot)("keeps its owner if root formats it", async () => {
Expand All @@ -552,7 +549,7 @@ describe.concurrent("bun fmt", () => {
});

// Prettier doesn't need write access to the directory.
test.skipIf(isWindows || isRoot)("can be in a read-only directory", async () => {
test.skipIf(isRoot)("can be in a read-only directory", async () => {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 3 weeks ago; The file descriptor will not be closed automatically. ```mjs import { open, close, appendFile } from &#39;node:fs&#39;; function closeFd(fd) { close(fd, (err) =&gt; { if (err) throw err; }); } open(&#39;message.txt&#39;, &#39;a&#39;, (err, fd) =&gt; { if (err) throw err; try { appendFile(fd, &#39;data to append&#39;, &#39;utf8&#39;, (err) =&gt; { closeFd(fd); if (err) throw err; }); } catch (err) { closeFd(fd); throw err; } }); ``` ### `fs.chmod(path, mode, callback)` &lt;!-- YAML added: v0.1.30 changes: - version: v18.0.0 pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/41678 description: Passing an invalid callback to the `callback` argument now throws `ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE` instead of `ERR_INVALID_CALLBACK`. - version: v10.0.0 pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/12562 description: The `callback` parameter is no longer optional. ... Similar to [`fs.readFile()`][], when the path is a directory, the behavior of `fs.readFileSync()` is platform-specific. ```mjs import { readFileSync } from &#39;node:fs&#39;; // macOS, Linux, and Windows readFileSync(&#39;&lt;directory&gt;&#39;); // =&gt; [Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read &lt;directory&gt;] // FreeBSD readFileSync(&#39;&lt;directory&gt;&#39;); // =&gt; &lt;data&gt; ``` ### `fs.readlinkSync(path[, options])` &lt;!-- YAML added: v0.1.31 changes: - version: v7.6.0 pr-url: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/10739 description: The `path` parameter can be a WHATWG `URL` object using `file:` protocol. --&gt; * `path` {string|Buffer|URL} * `options` {string|Object} * `encoding` {string} **Default:** `&#39;utf8&#39;` * Returns: {string|Buffer} Returns the symbolic link&#39;s string value.
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
fs.chmod currently behaves a bit odd across different platforms:
On linux and unix like system it behaves as expected if mode&lt;=777.
On windows on the other hand it ignores the group and other permissions, and changes the &#39;read-only&#39; attribute. This is problematic because:

  1. Making file readonly doesn&#39;t really prevent anyone from changing its content. one can just undo read-only. </excerpt>
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<title>`fs.rmSync` cannot remove read-only files on Windows when Node is built with `libc++` · Issue #64374 · nodejs/node · GitHub</title>
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  2. ### SparshGarg999 commented on Jul 12, 2026

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Hi! I&#39;ve implemented a fix for this in PR #64453.

I added a Windows-specific helper `ClearReadOnlyAttributeW` in `src/node_file.cc` that is invoked if the standard `std::filesystem::remove` or `std::filesystem::remove_all` fails with `std::errc::operation_not_permitted` (EPERM).

On Windows, `libc++`&#39;s filesystem implementation does not clear the `FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY` attribute before deleting a file (unlike MSVC&#39;s STL which does). My helper manually detects if the read-only attribute is present, clears it recursively (or for a single file/symlink), and retries the removal operation.

This brings Node.js builds compiled under `libc++` (such as Electron) to parity with standard MSVC STL builds.

I verified the fix with a new test case in `test/parallel/test-fs-rm.js` targeting read-only file/directory removal, and confirmed that all code style (`cpplint` / `eslint`) rules pass cleanly.

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fs: support removing read-only files in rmSync on Windows

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opened on Jun 11, 2025

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### Version

v24.2.0

### Platform
    
    `Linux 5d31fb693130 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2 #1 SMP Tue Nov 5 00:21:55 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    `

### Subsystem

fs

### What steps will reproduce the bug?

Make directories and files like this:
    
    `- (rootDir)
        - permissionNotGranted (Owner: root:root / Perm: 700)
            - a.txt (Owner: root:root / Perm: 700)
            - b.txt (Owner: root:root / Perm: 700)
        - permissionGranted (Owner: vscode:vscode / Perm: 755)
            - c.txt (Owner: vscode:vscode / Perm: 755)
            - d.txt (Owner: vscode:vscode / Perm: 755)
    `

And run following script with user `vscode`, throws `TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading &#39;length&#39;)`
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- 1: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/api/fs.md?plain=1&utm_source=openai
- 2: GitHub issue 30019 in nodejs/node (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 3: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/api/fs.md?plain=1&utm_source=openai

Make the Windows fixture deny directory writes.

On Windows, chmodSync(..., 0o555) changes the read-only attribute. It does not create an ACL that denies creating or deleting directory entries. These tests can therefore pass without checking a write-protected directory. Restore the Windows skips until the fixtures use an ACL that denies writes.

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Review comment at @test/cli/format/format.test.ts at line 552:
Update the “can be in a read-only directory” test’s skip condition to also skip
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using dir = tempDir("bun-format", { "src/a.js": ugly });
chmodSync(join(String(dir), "src"), 0o555);
try {
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expect(result.exitCode).toBe(2);
});

test.skipIf(isWindows)(
"/dev/null works as an ignore file without patterns and as a configuration without options",
async () => {
const files = { ".prettierignore": "a.js\n", ".prettierrc": `{ "semi": false }\n`, "a.js": formatted };
expect(await different(files, ["."])).toEqual([]);
expect(await different(files, ["--ignore-path", "/dev/null", "."])).toEqual(["a.js"]);
expect(await different(files, ["--ignore-path", "/dev/null", "--config", "/dev/null", "."])).toEqual([]);
},
);
test("/dev/null works as an ignore file without patterns and as a configuration without options", async () => {
const files = { ".prettierignore": "a.js\n", ".prettierrc": `{ "semi": false }\n`, "a.js": formatted };
expect(await different(files, ["."])).toEqual([]);
expect(await different(files, ["--ignore-path", "/dev/null", "."])).toEqual(["a.js"]);
expect(await different(files, ["--ignore-path", "/dev/null", "--config", "/dev/null", "."])).toEqual([]);
});

// This means "never break a line". Prettier accepts every integer from 0 up, and Infinity.
test.each([
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expect(result.exitCode).toBe(0);
});

test.skipIf(isWindows)("a named pipe whose name ends in .js is skipped, like in Prettier", async () => {
test("a named pipe whose name ends in .js is skipped, like in Prettier", async () => {
const before = (dir: string) => expect(Bun.spawnSync(["mkfifo", join(dir, "pipe.js")]).exitCode).toBe(0);
expect(await different({ "a.js": ugly }, [], { before })).toEqual(["a.js"]);
});
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// A case's guard used to be printed without a stack check, so the stack overflowed at depths between the printer's
// limit and the parser's. The threads that format files have stack to spare, so this uses the main thread with half
// of its usual stack.
test.skipIf(isWindows || isDebug || isASAN).concurrent.each([4_500, 4_612, 4_728, 4_846, 4_967, 5_091])(
test.skipIf(isDebug || isASAN).concurrent.each([4_500, 4_612, 4_728, 4_846, 4_967, 5_091])(
"Flow's match with %d nested guards, on a 4 MB stack",
async depth => {
using dir = tempDir("bun-format-small-stack", {});
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/cli/format/oxfmt-cli/oxfmt-cli.test.ts
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// `--list-different` list.
// `cases.json` is written by `test/cli/lint/oracle/driver/oxfmt-fixtures.mjs --record`.
import { afterAll, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, isWindows, tempDir } from "harness";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, tempDir } from "harness";
import { readFileSync, symlinkSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { endChildren, spawn } from "../../children";
Expand All @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ describe.concurrent("bun fmt behaves like oxfmt", () => {
for (const it of cases) {
const files = { ...(fixtures as Record<string, Files>)[it.name], ...it.gitignore } as Files;
const links = Object.entries(files).filter(([, file]) => typeof file !== "string") as [string, { link: string }][];
test.skipIf(isWindows && links.length > 0)(`${it.name}/${it.index}: ${it.args.join(" ")}`, async () => {
test(`${it.name}/${it.index}: ${it.args.join(" ")}`, async () => {
const texts = Object.entries(files).filter(([, file]) => typeof file === "string") as [string, string][];
// Without a configuration file, `bun fmt` behaves like Prettier. An empty one above the fixtures makes it behave
// like oxfmt.
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/cli/format/prettier-cli/prettier-cli.test.ts
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// input. `bun fmt` writes unless told otherwise, so Prettier was given `--write` where the command line only prints.
// `cases.json` is written by `test/cli/lint/oracle/driver/prettier-fixtures.mjs --record`.
import { afterAll, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, isWindows, tempDir } from "harness";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, tempDir } from "harness";
import { readFileSync, symlinkSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { endChildren, spawn } from "../../children";
Expand All @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ describe.concurrent("bun fmt behaves like Prettier", () => {
const links = Object.entries(files).filter(([, file]) => typeof file !== "string") as [string, { link: string }][];
// Links, or a name that Windows doesn't allow.
const needsPosix = links.length > 0 || Object.keys(files).some(name => /[<>:"|?*\\]/.test(name));
test.skipIf(isWindows && needsPosix)(`${it.test}: ${it.directory} $ ${it.args.join(" ")}`, async () => {
test(`${it.test}: ${it.directory} $ ${it.args.join(" ")}`, async () => {
const texts = Object.entries(files).filter(([, file]) => typeof file === "string") as [string, string][];
using dir = tempDir("prettier-cli", Object.fromEntries(texts.map(([name, text]) => [`${top}/${name}`, text])));
for (const [name, { link }] of links) symlinkSync(link, join(String(dir), top, name));
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/cli/format/tailwind/tailwind.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
//
// The order comes from the project's `tailwindcss` package. Here that's a stub that knows the classes in order.json.
import { afterAll, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, isLinux, isWindows, tempDir } from "harness";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, isLinux, tempDir } from "harness";
import { chmodSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { endChildren, spawn } from "../../children";
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});

// As with Nix, an image layer owned by root, or a sandbox. Skipped as root, which can write anywhere.
test.skipIf(isWindows || process.getuid?.() === 0)("works with read-only packages", async () => {
test.skipIf(process.getuid?.() === 0)("works with read-only packages", async () => {
using dir = tempDir("bun-format-tailwind", {
...version4,
".oxfmtrc.json": '{ "sortTailwindcss": {} }\n',
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts
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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
import { spawn } from "bun";
import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, forEachLine, isBroken, isWindows, tempDir } from "harness";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, forEachLine, tempDir } from "harness";
import { writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
import { join } from "node:path";

describe.todoIf(isBroken && isWindows)("--watch works", async () => {
describe("--watch works", async () => {
for (const watchedFile of ["entry.js", "tmp.js"]) {
test(`with ${watchedFile}`, async () => {
await using tmpdir_ = tempDir("watch-fixture", {
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/cli/inspect/BunFrontendDevServer.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { decodeSerializedError } from "bake/error-serialization.ts";
import { Subprocess, spawn } from "bun";
import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
import fs from "fs";
import { bunExe, bunEnv as env, isPosix, tempDir, tmpdirSync } from "harness";
import { bunExe, bunEnv as env, tempDir, tmpdirSync } from "harness";
import path, { join } from "node:path";
import { InspectorSession, connect } from "./junit-reporter";
import { SocketFramer } from "./socket-framer";
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}
}

describe.if(isPosix)("BunFrontendDevServer inspector protocol", () => {
describe("BunFrontendDevServer inspector protocol", () => {
let devServerProcess: Subprocess<"ignore", "pipe", "pipe">;
let serverUrl: URL;
let session: BunFrontendDevServerSession;
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions test/cli/inspect/test-reporter.test.ts
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
import { Subprocess, spawn, write } from "bun";
import { afterEach, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, isPosix, tempDir } from "harness";
import { bunEnv, bunExe, tempDir } from "harness";
import { join } from "node:path";
import { InspectorSession, connect } from "./junit-reporter";
import { SocketFramer } from "./socket-framer";
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}
}

describe.if(isPosix)("TestReporter inspector protocol", () => {
describe("TestReporter inspector protocol", () => {
let proc: Subprocess<"ignore", "pipe", "pipe"> | undefined;
let socket: ReturnType<typeof connect> extends Promise<infer T> ? T : never;

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion test/cli/install/bun-add-filter.test.ts
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Expand Up @@ -2408,7 +2408,7 @@ test.concurrent("remove --filter --dry-run touches nothing", async () => {
expect(await exists(join(dir, "node_modules", "no-deps", "package.json"))).toBeTrue();
});

test.concurrent.skipIf(isWindows || isRoot)(
test.concurrent.skipIf(isRoot)(
"an unwritable target is reported by name, the rest is still written, exit code 1",
async () => {
const dir = await makeMonorepo();
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