[robobun]

On hold since 2026-11-11. Do not merge this head. With no 'uncaughtException' handler the stream reads on after the report, and a program that exits with its child's code from child.on("close") exits 0 where Node and main exit 1. The status comment has the script and the plan. The text below describes the change as first written and its last line of "Verification" about the case with no handler is not complete.

Repro

import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
let ue = 0, ur = 0, data = 0, n = 0; const N = 40;
process.on("uncaughtException", (e, origin) => { origin === "unhandledRejection" ? ur++ : ue++; next(); });
process.on("unhandledRejection", () => { ur++; next(); });
process.on("exit", (code) => console.log(`exit=${code} spawned=${n} data=${data} uncaughtException=${ue} unhandledRejection=${ur}`));
function next() {
  if (n >= N) return; n++;
  const c = spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", "echo hi"], { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] });
  c.stdout.on("data", () => { data++; throw new Error("data-throw-" + n); });
}
next();

node: exit=0 spawned=40 data=40 uncaughtException=40 unhandledRejection=0

bun before this change: exit=0 spawned=3 data=2 uncaughtException=1 unhandledRejection=1. After a few children the listener throw arrives as an unhandledRejection, the rejection is only noticed at loop exit (after beforeExit), and the child spawned from that handler never runs. With only an uncaughtException handler installed the flipped throw is fatal (rc 1). The throwing stream also stalls: its 'close' never fires.

Delaying the child's first write makes the failure deterministic, because the parent's pull is then always pending when data arrives: bun reports ue=0 ur=3 closes=0 vs node ue=3 ur=0 closes=3 on every run.

Cause

internal/streams/native-readable.ts drives child stdio pipes. When ptr.pull() returns a promise, handleResult() -> push() -> emit('data') runs inside the .then fulfillment reaction, and nothing observes _read()'s returned promise. A throw from the user's listener therefore rejects an unobserved promise and surfaces as unhandledRejection, where node, which dispatches these events from the native read callback, produces an uncaughtException. The throw also unwinds addChunk before its maybeReadMore call and handleResult before its EOF scheduling, so nothing ever reads again: the stream stalls and 'close' never fires, which is why a child spawned from the late rejection handler was lost.

This is the same callback-dispatch class #34660 fixed for fs/dns/pbkdf2 callbacks, at a site it did not cover.

Fix

Catch the throw at the push boundary in pushAndCheck, report it through the same jsFunctionReportUncaughtException path the guarded callbacks use, and schedule the read the throw unwound so the stream still reaches EOF. This applies to child stdio only (child.stdout, child.stderr), which are native handles in Node. Readable.fromWeb streams, fetch bodies included, keep their promise semantics. Node reports a listener throw there as an unhandledRejection too (verified against Node v26).

Verification

• New test in test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts fails unfixed (spawned=3 data=3 closes=0 ue=0 ur=3) and passes fixed (spawned=3 data=3 closes=3 ue=3 ur=0).
• The 40-child repro above matches node exactly with the fix, 3/3 runs.
• With only an uncaughtException handler installed: exit 0 and all children complete (was fatal rc 1).
• With no handler installed: still fatal with rc 1, as in node.
• child_process.test.ts (61 pass; 2 env-dependent failures reproduce on clean main in the same container), child-process-stdio.test.js, child_process-node.test.js, node-stream.test.js, process-stdin.test.ts, and test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts are unchanged.

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Native readable streams now accept an option to report exceptions thrown by push() listeners and schedule a guarded read. Child-process stdout and stderr streams enable this option. Regression tests cover child-process exceptions and exceptions from a fetch response body.

Changes

Native readable exception handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Push exception recovery src/js/internal/shared.ts, src/js/internal/streams/native-readable.ts, src/js/node/child_process.ts	constructNativeReadable stores an optional listener-exception setting. When enabled, pushAndCheck reports exceptions and schedules a guarded read. Child-process stdout and stderr streams enable the setting.
Stream exception regression coverage test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts, test/js/node/stream/node-stream.test.js	Child-process tests check uncaught-exception reporting, stream closure, and process exit. A fetch-body test checks unhandled-rejection reporting when a data listener throws.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38278: Changes uncaught-exception reporting for errors that escape native callbacks.
• oven-sh/bun#48026: Changes constructNativeReadable and native-readable handle transfer behavior.
• oven-sh/bun#46528: Changes native-readable construction and child-process stdio handling.

Suggested reviewers: alii, jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Low · up to 0a767

The tested pending-read path is covered, but fast-writing child output may still stop after a listener throws. That gap warrants owner awareness; the available evidence does not establish that this change makes it worse.

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assertions to express the required uncaughtException and stream-close behavior.
- Around line 1174-1177: Replace the fixed 50ms timeout in the spawned child
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^{Updated 12:05 AM PT - Nov 11th, 2026}

@robobun, your commit 9006a43 is building: #140046

[claude]

I re-reviewed after the follow-up commits and didn't find any bugs — both earlier nits (shared reportUncaughtException import, combined {stdout, stderr, exitCode} assertion) are addressed, and the CodeRabbit/comment-cop threads are resolved. Because this changes error-delivery semantics at the native-readable push boundary (affects every child stdio pipe and native-backed fromWeb), a human look at the recovery path would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Traced addChunk in readable.ts — the flowing-mode 'data' emit is synchronous and unwinds before maybeReadMore, so the read(0) recovery is doing the work maybeReadMore_ would have.
• readAfterListenerThrow guards on destroyed and kCloseState[0]; when the native side closed, handleNumberResult/handleArrayBufferViewResult already scheduled push(null), so the guard avoids a redundant read.
• The catch also covers the sync pull() / start() / drain() call sites of pushAndCheck, not only the promise path — consistent with Node dispatching all native-handle reads as uncaughtException.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR changes src/js/internal/streams/native-readable.ts to wrap stream.push(chunk) in a try/catch inside pushAndCheck. A throw from a user 'data' listener (which addChunk emits synchronously in flowing mode) is now routed through reportUncaughtException from internal/shared, and a process.nextTick(readAfterListenerThrow) re-drives the stream with read(0) so it still reaches EOF and 'close'. Previously the throw rejected the unobserved promise returned by _read's .then reaction, surfacing as unhandledRejection and stalling the stream. A subprocess regression test in child_process.test.ts asserts ue=3 ur=0 closes=3 for three sequential children whose 'data' listeners throw.

Security risks

None identified. The change catches user-listener throws and reports them via the existing jsFunctionReportUncaughtException C++ binding — the same mechanism #34660 uses for fs/dns/pbkdf2 callbacks. No new input parsing, no privilege boundaries, no resource limits touched.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. This is not a mechanical fix: it changes error-delivery semantics for an entire class of streams (child stdio pipes, and Readable.fromWeb over native handles like fetch bodies), and adds a recovery step whose correctness depends on the Readable state machine (addChunk unwinding before maybeReadMore, kCloseState vs the nextTick-scheduled push(null)). The pushAndCheck helper is called from five sites (promise resolution, sync pull, start, drain, and both handle*Result variants), so the catch applies more broadly than the async path the test exercises. The reasoning in the PR description is sound and I verified the addChunk control flow it cites, but a maintainer should confirm that catching every throw out of push() (including e.g. a throwing 'readable' or 'error' listener reached via errorOrDestroy) and recovering with read(0) is the intended scope.

Other factors

All prior review threads are resolved: my two nits (duplicate $newCppFunction binding → now imports from internal/shared; discarded stderr → now asserted in the combined object) were fixed in ec04277 and eeeeb24; the comment-cop paragraph-comment flags were trimmed across b0ab41f/bd413fd8/4e4128b9; CodeRabbit's 50ms-delay concern was withdrawn after the author explained the stdin-handshake alternative hangs on a separate stdin-pipe race and that the parent's first read is queued on the next tick before any child can boot+write. The test follows harness conventions (bunEnv, bunExe(), concurrent pipe drain, combined-object assertion). No outstanding unresolved feedback.

[robobun]

#43790 overlaps with this PR. It delivers each child stdio read result from a point where the nextTick queue and the promise job queue are empty, so a throw from a 'data' listener of child.stdout or child.stderr is an uncaughtException there on every path, and the stream reads on after it. Its fixture has a throw case with the same expectation as the test here (uncaughtException, then 'end' and 'close').

If #43790 lands first, the pushAndCheck change here conflicts with it, and the child stdio case is already covered. What is left for this PR is Readable.fromWeb of a native stream, where a listener throw still leaves push() before maybeReadMore().

[robobun]

Status: on hold, back in draft. Do not merge the head 9006a439fb2. This replaces my note of 10-05.

Why

• With no 'uncaughtException' handler, this head reads on after it reports the throw. The script below prints exit, data 1, end, child close 0 and exits 0. Node v26.3.0 and main print exit, data 1 and exit 1. I measured that on 2026-11-11 with the built-in JS of this head, 3 of 3 runs.
• The same head calls a listener that throws on every chunk 3 times before the process ends (Node and main: once), when the child writes 4 MiB without pause.
• The gap for a writer without pause (my note of 10-05) is still open: with 3 throws and a child that writes 12.5 MiB without pause, the stream stops after 540672 bytes. The fix I prepared for it pushed each chunk from process.nextTick. I do not ship it: a 'data' listener that removes itself and comes back from a promise job lost a chunk, and 'end' came before the continuation of an async listener (10 of 10 runs, Node and main 0 of 10).

// No 'uncaughtException' handler. The data and the EOF of stdout arrive after the child's 'exit'.
const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
const c = spawn("sh", ["-c", "(read line <&3; printf hi) & exit 0"], { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore", "pipe"] });
let n = 0;
c.stdio[3].on("error", () => {});
c.stdout.on("data", () => { n++; console.log("data", n); throw new Error("boom"); });
c.stdout.on("end", () => console.log("end"));
c.on("exit", () => { console.log("exit"); c.stdio[3].end("\n"); });
c.on("close", code => { console.log("child close", code); process.exit(code); });

What moved out

• The fix for a chunk that a later read writes over is its own PR: node:stream: advance the native pull buffer before push() #48553. This head carries the same change since 11-11. When node:stream: advance the native pull buffer before push() #48553 merges, that part leaves this diff.

What is next

• A smaller shape passes every case above in a prototype: one catch where the 'data' event of child stdout and stderr is dispatched, and no change to when a chunk is delivered. It needs the error report to say if a handler took the error. child_process: keep 'close' of stdout and stderr when their 'error' emit throws #44849 carries that native change.
• The layer is a maintainer's decision. The other route is the one asked for in child_process: make piped stdio streams instances of net.Socket #36316: pass the file descriptors of stdout and stderr to net.Socket. stdio[3] and above use that route today, and with the child writing to fd 3 main passes the throw cases.

How I reproduced the original problem (unchanged): bun x.mjs hangs on main with STILL ALIVE at 4 s | read 131072 of 655360 | unhandledRejection. Node prints EXIT 0 | read 655360 of 655360 | uncaughtException | child exit 0.

import cp from "node:child_process";
const ev = [];
process.on("uncaughtException", () => ev.push("uncaughtException"));
process.on("unhandledRejection", () => ev.push("unhandledRejection"));
let got = 0, n = 0;
const ch = cp.spawn("sh", ["-c", "for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do head -c 65536 /dev/zero; sleep 0.02; done"]);
ch.stdout.on("data", d => { got += d.length; if (++n === 2) throw new Error("boom"); });
ch.on("exit", c => ev.push("child exit " + c));
process.on("exit", c => console.log("EXIT", c, "| read", got, "of 655360 |", ev.join(" | ")));
setTimeout(() => console.log("STILL ALIVE at 4 s | read", got, "of 655360 |", ev.join(" | ")), 4000).unref();

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Handle listener throws when buffered data flows.

If a fast-writing child fills the readable buffer, flow() can emit its 'data' event through read() after stream.push() returns. A listener throw then bypasses this catch, so readAfterListenerThrow is not scheduled and the stream can stall. Cover both the direct push() emission and the buffered flow() emission, then add a fast-writer regression case. Bun’s readable implementation shows the separate buffered-data path. (raw.githubusercontent.com) The PR objectives also report the fast-writer hang.

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Update the `flow()` handling around `stream.push(chunk)` so listener throws are
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A 'data' listener throw from flow() (buffered data) is not this PR's bug. flow() runs from a nextTick, so that throw already reaches uncaughtException. After it, the Readable is left with flowing=true and a full buffer. Node's Readable leaves a net.Socket or child stdio stream in that same state after the same throw: the loop in flow() is abandoned and nothing reads again until the consumer calls read() or resume(). This PR fixes the path where bun differed from Node: the throw from the pending-pull reaction, which surfaced as unhandledRejection and stalled the stream.

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Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\n' '--- Readable implementation outline ---'
ast-grep outline src/js/internal/streams/readable.ts --items all --match 'flow|resume|addChunk|readableAddChunk' --view expanded
printf '%s\n' '--- Readable flow and data emission ---'
rg -n -C 9 'function flow\(|function resume_|function resume\(|function addChunk\(|emit\(.data.' src/js/internal/streams/readable.ts
printf '%s\n' '--- Native pull and listener recovery ---'
rg -n -C 5 'function pushAndCheck|function readAfterListenerThrow|result\.then\(' src/js/internal/streams/native-readable.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Standalone Node child-stdio buffered-flow reproduction ---'
if command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  node --version
  timeout 8s node <<'NODE'
const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
const writer = `const b = Buffer.alloc(65536, 120);
let left = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
function pump() {
  while (left > 0) {
    left -= b.length;
    if (!process.stdout.write(b)) return process.stdout.once("drain", pump);
  }
}
pump();`;
const child = spawn(process.execPath, ["-e", writer], { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] });
let chunks = 0, errors = 0, bytes = 0;
process.on("uncaughtException", e => {
  errors++;
  console.log("uncaught", e.message, "chunks", chunks, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing);
});
child.on("error", e => console.log("child error", e.message));
child.stdout.once("readable", function ready() {
  setTimeout(() => {
    console.log("before data listener: buffered", child.stdout.readableLength);
    child.stdout.on("data", chunk => {
      chunks++;
      bytes += chunk.length;
      if (chunks === 1) throw new Error("listener throw");
    });
    setTimeout(() => {
      console.log("after throw: chunks", chunks, "bytes", bytes, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing, "errors", errors);
      child.stdout.resume();
      setTimeout(() => {
        console.log("after resume: chunks", chunks, "bytes", bytes, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing);
        child.stdout.pause();
        child.stdout.resume();
        setTimeout(() => {
          console.log("after pause/resume: chunks", chunks, "bytes", bytes, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing);
          child.kill();
          child.stdout.destroy();
          process.exit(0);
        }, 200);
      }, 200);
    }, 250);
  }, 50);
});
NODE
else
  printf '%s\n' 'Node is unavailable; standalone comparison not run.'
fi

Length of output: 8655

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Script executed:

#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\n' '--- Bun flow callers ---'
rg -n -C 6 '\bflow\(' src/js/internal/streams/readable.ts

printf '%s\n' '--- Node comparison with multiple buffered chunks ---'
if command -v node >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  node --version
  timeout 8s node <<'NODE'
const { spawn } = require("node:child_process");
const writer = `
process.stdout.write(Buffer.from("x"));
setTimeout(() => {
  const b = Buffer.alloc(65536, 120);
  let left = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
  function pump() {
    while (left > 0) {
      left -= b.length;
      if (!process.stdout.write(b)) return process.stdout.once("drain", pump);
    }
  }
  pump();
}, 50);
`;
const child = spawn(process.execPath, ["-e", writer], { stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] });
let chunks = 0, errors = 0, bytes = 0;
process.on("uncaughtException", e => {
  errors++;
  console.log("uncaught", e.message, "chunks", chunks, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing);
});
child.on("error", e => console.log("child error", e.message));
child.stdout.once("readable", () => {
  setTimeout(() => {
    console.log("before data listener: buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "highWaterMark", child.stdout.readableHighWaterMark);
    child.stdout.on("data", chunk => {
      chunks++;
      bytes += chunk.length;
      if (chunks === 1) throw new Error("listener throw");
    });
    setTimeout(() => {
      console.log("after throw: chunks", chunks, "bytes", bytes, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing, "errors", errors);
      child.stdout.resume();
      setTimeout(() => {
        console.log("after resume: chunks", chunks, "bytes", bytes, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing);
        child.stdout.pause();
        child.stdout.resume();
        setTimeout(() => {
          console.log("after pause/resume: chunks", chunks, "bytes", bytes, "buffered", child.stdout.readableLength, "flowing", child.stdout.readableFlowing);
          child.kill();
          child.stdout.destroy();
          process.exit(0);
        }, 200);
      }, 200);
    }, 300);
  }, 250);
});
NODE
else
  printf '%s\n' 'Node is unavailable; standalone comparison not run.'
fi

Length of output: 5024

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@robobun Thanks for the correction. I withdraw the finding.

In a Node 24.22.1 check with a full buffer, the throw reached uncaughtException and flow stopped. Calling resume() alone did not restart it, but calling pause() followed by resume() did.

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Repo: oven-sh/bun

Timestamp: 2026-08-08T01:58:06.484Z
Learning: In `test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts`, the regression test `throw from a child stdio 'data' listener is an uncaughtException and the stream still ends` deliberately uses a child `setTimeout(() => console.log('hi'), 50)` instead of a stdin readiness handshake. After `spawn()`, the parent attaches the stdout `data` listener and queues the first native pipe read on the next tick in the same turn. A child process cannot boot and write before that next-tick read, so the test exercises the async pending-pull path. The stdin handshake is unsuitable because it intermittently hangs under the test runner due to a separate stdin-pipe race.

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[robobun]

Correction to my reply above: what it says about Node is wrong, and this finding stands. In Node the stream reads on after a listener throw on this path, because the handle pushes the next chunk by itself. Measured with Node v26.3.0: a child that writes 13107200 bytes without pause and a listener that throws on its first 3 calls ends with all 13107200 bytes and 3 uncaughtException events. This head (9006a439fb2) stops after 540672 bytes. I reopened the thread. The status comment has the script and the plan.

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@robobun Thanks for the correction. I was wrong to withdraw the finding. My earlier Node check did not establish parity for the fast-writer case.

Your reported reproduction shows that Node reads all 13,107,200 bytes after three listener throws, while this Bun head stops early. The finding remains open. A regression test should check repeated throws, uncaughtException delivery, and completion of the full stream.

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Learnt from: robobun
Repo: oven-sh/bun

Timestamp: 2026-08-08T01:58:06.484Z
Learning: In `test/js/node/child_process/child_process.test.ts`, the regression test `throw from a child stdio 'data' listener is an uncaughtException and the stream still ends` deliberately uses a child `setTimeout(() => console.log('hi'), 50)` instead of a stdin readiness handshake. After `spawn()`, the parent attaches the stdout `data` listener and queues the first native pipe read on the next tick in the same turn. A child process cannot boot and write before that next-tick read, so the test exercises the async pending-pull path. The stdin handshake is unsuitable because it intermittently hangs under the test runner due to a separate stdin-pipe race.

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[claude]

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 checked the remaining concerns from earlier rounds against the latest push: both callers of constructNativeReadable are accounted for (child_process.ts:1300 opts in; webstreams_adapters.ts:41 stays on the rethrow path, now pinned by the new node-stream test), readAfterListenerThrow is only scheduled on the uncaughtException path so Readable.fromWeb no longer keeps pulling after a throw, and the reportUncaughtException binding is imported from internal/shared rather than redefined.

Extended reasoning...

The change routes 'data' listener throws on native-backed Readables either to reportUncaughtException (child stdio, flag true) or rethrows into the pull promise (Readable.fromWeb, flag false), and schedules a read(0) to resume the stream after an uncaughtException. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The prior-round objections (duplicate binding, fromWeb channel, missing matrix coverage) are addressed in the current diff; the two inline findings this run are a pre-existing fromWeb remaining-chunk issue and a test-hang nit, so a human should weigh those rather than this body.

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Code review completed

Nothing new to post: everything this review found is already covered by existing comments on this pull request or didn't merit a separate one.

This review covers commit ffbf23a, which is no longer the latest commit on this pull request; later commits are not covered by it.

[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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

• 🟣 src/js/internal/streams/native-readable.ts — pre-existing: a consumer that calls read() synchronously from a 'data' listener or from the uncaughtException handler can later see a delivered chunk's bytes silently overwritten. handleNumberResult (native-readable.ts:253) now records the spare before push(), but the pull reaction at native-readable.ts:184 still overwrites kRemainingChunk with its own stale remainder after push() returns, discarding what a nested synchronous pull set. Fix: make the spare buffer advance only where a pull result is consumed, with the reaction at :184 and the sync path at :191 not re-assigning kRemainingChunk from handleResult's return value; this also closes the Readable.fromWeb rethrow path.

  Why this was flagged

  A child stdio 'data' listener (or the process.on('uncaughtException') handler the new catch at native-readable.ts:232 runs synchronously) calls stream.read() while a chunk is being delivered from the pull reaction at native-readable.ts:178-185. kReading was cleared at readable.ts:443 and kPendingRead at native-readable.ts:183, so read() reaches _read at native-readable.ts:138, getRemainingChunk returns the remainder set at :253, and ptr.pull returns a number synchronously when the native reader still holds bytes. The nested handleNumberResult buffers remainder.subarray(0, r2) in the Readable and sets kRemainingChunk = remainder.subarray(r2). Control returns to the outer handleNumberResult, which returns its local chunk (the whole remainder), and native-readable.ts:184 assigns that to kRemainingChunk. The next pull writes into that buffer from offset 0, over the bytes of the buffered slice that flow() hands to the user. The base branch corrupts the same way (and also the slice in flight, which :253 now prevents); nothing resets the spare after a nested pull.

  Verification: pre-existing. A consumer calls stream.read() synchronously from a 'data' listener while a chunk is delivered, and the nested pull completes synchronously with data. The outer handleNumberResult returns the stale local R (native-readable.ts:263), and :184 overwrites kRemainingChunk = R. No guard resets kRemainingChunk after the push returns. On the base, :184 behaved identically.

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I reviewed the latest pushes (the spare-buffer restructuring and the comment trim) and found no new bugs; because this changes the exception channel of a hot stream path, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The kRemainingChunk refactor: before a pull, kRemainingChunk already equals chunk and kPendingRead blocks re-entry, so dropping the boolean/ArrayBufferView return values is behavior-preserving; assigning it in handleNumberResult before push() is the only semantic change and it closes the buffer-aliasing window on re-entrant reads.
• The catch path against readable.ts: kReading is cleared before addChunk emits 'data', so the nextTick read(0) re-enters _read; a sync-path push cannot throw (kSync buffers instead of emitting), so the rethrow only reaches the pull-promise reaction.
• Sibling sites: process.stdin already rethrows on nextTick, webstreams_adapters is the only other constructNativeReadable caller and keeps the default, and there is no AOT mirror of native-readable.ts.
• Not run: the three subprocess tests; the fromWeb test's reliance on the "b" pull being pending is argued from event ordering, not observed.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a third parameter to constructNativeReadable in src/js/internal/streams/native-readable.ts, wraps stream.push in try/catch in pushAndCheck to route child-stdio 'data' listener throws through reportUncaughtException (re-exported from internal/shared) and re-arm the read on nextTick, and moves the kRemainingChunk assignment from the handleResult callers into handleNumberResult ahead of push; child_process.ts passes true for stdio pipes, and three subprocess tests cover the handler, no-handler and fromWeb cases. It touches no security-sensitive surface (no auth, injection or data exposure), and no CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files. Two commits since the last review body changed the buffer bookkeeping, which was traced and found equivalent except for the intended before-push ordering. The change rewires exception delivery in a hot built-in stream path and the tests were not run here, which is why a human look is still worthwhile.