[robobun]

Problem

• On a case-sensitive filesystem, a file named Package.json in the working directory (or any directory the resolver walks up through) makes every bun <file> print error: Cannot read file "<dir>/": ENOENT, and makes bun build exit 1. Tsconfig.json / Jsconfig.json do the same with error: Cannot find tsconfig file "<dir>/tsconfig.json". Node, npm and tsc ignore these files.
• Cause: the per-directory listing in src/resolver/fs.rs is keyed by the lowercased basename, so DirEntry::get_comptime_query(b"package.json") returns the Package.json entry. Its callers in dir_info_uncached (src/resolver/resolver.rs, the package.json, tsconfig.json, jsconfig.json, node_modules and .bin probes) then open <dir>/package.json spelled exactly like that, which does not exist, and log the failure.
• The package.json read error also printed the directory instead of the file it failed to read (src/resolver/package_json.rs).

Fix

• get_comptime_query keeps a hit whose on-disk name differs from the probed name only if the probed spelling exists on disk (access() / GetFileAttributesW on <dir>/<name>). That is true exactly on filesystems that fold case themselves, where the callers' open succeeds and the file really is the directory's package.json, so behavior there is unchanged apart from the one extra syscall. Exact-name hits and misses, which is every normal directory, are unchanged and make no syscall. has_comptime_query goes through the same path.
• The package.json read error names the package.json path.
• The other two has_comptime_query callers, bun.lockb in src/install/PackageManager.rs (runtime auto-install) and package.json in src/runtime/cli/pm_view_command.rs, also open the lowercase spelling next, so a Bun.lockb / Package.json now skips an open that was going to fail; the fallback they took after that failure is the path they take now.
• Only the fixed-name probes change. DirEntry::get, which serves import specifiers, is untouched: case-folded import resolution is existing behavior pinned by test/bundler/esbuild/extra.test.ts (extra/CaseSensitiveImport), and the case-mismatched extension/index/exports probes are being handled in resolver: reject case-mismatched extension probes that do not exist on disk #36054; same-directory siblings that differ only in case are resolver: keep sibling entries whose names differ only in case #38011.
• Verified with test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (differently-cased package.json / tsconfig.json in a directory): 6 of the new tests fail on the current release and pass with this change on Linux; the remaining one is a control that passes both ways. isCaseSensitiveFileSystem() is added to the test harness so the case-sensitive half is skipped where the filesystem folds case.
• The two tests that run on case-insensitive filesystems were also run on Windows (Tsconfig.json is picked up there, as before).
• cargo check -p bun_resolver for the linux, windows-msvc and apple-darwin targets; test/bundler/esbuild/extra.test.ts, the tsconfig tests and the rest of test/js/bun/resolve/ still pass.

Background

• The resolver never stats candidate files one by one. It reads each directory once (RealFS::read_directory) into a DirEntry, a hash map from lowercased basename to Entry, and answers every lookup in that directory from the map. The lowercasing exists so that on macOS and Windows, where the filesystem itself is case-insensitive, a lookup finds the file the filesystem would have opened.
• get_comptime_query is the variant of that lookup used for the handful of fixed names the resolver probes in every directory it visits while building a DirInfo (dir_info_uncached); the result decides whether the directory gets a parsed package.json / tsconfig.json attached and whether it counts as having a node_modules folder.

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no test proof · iteration 2 · Platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine. Deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The resolver now validates manifest filename spelling on case-sensitive filesystems. Package JSON read errors report the resolved manifest path. Tests add filesystem capability detection and cover casing, path aliases, manifest precedence, and canonical error paths.

Changes

Resolver filename casing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Manifest lookup validation src/resolver/fs.rs, src/resolver/package_json.rs	Comptime query lookup checks that the requested filename spelling exists. has_comptime_query uses the validated lookup. Package JSON read errors report the resolved package.json path.
Filesystem-aware regression coverage test/harness.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts	The harness caches filesystem case-sensitivity detection. Resolver tests cover mismatched and correctly cased manifests, TypeScript path aliases, manifest precedence, and canonical package JSON error paths.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner, alii

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[robobun]

^{Updated 11:54 AM PT - Aug 14th, 2026}

✅ @robobun, your commit 2759cb477689b677ba4b2c2a1d90327efb0edd1f passed in Build #96072! 🎉

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[robobun]

Superseded by #44690, which fixes these probes and the import cases through one case rule in the directory listing lookup. This PR is closed.

How it was reproduced (1.4.0 release, Linux, ext4): with Package.json in the working directory, bun entry.js prints error: Cannot read file "<dir>/": ENOENT and bun build entry.js exits 1. Tsconfig.json or Jsconfig.json print error: Cannot find tsconfig file .... A build of #44690 at 44be24c prints nothing for the same runs, and bun build exits 0.

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. The fix is well-scoped and thoroughly tested, but since it changes get_comptime_query semantics in the module resolver — a hot path that every bun run/bun build goes through, with callers in resolver.rs, PackageManager.rs and pm_view_command.rs — a human look would still be worthwhile.

Checked: the extra access() syscall only fires on a case-mismatched hit, never on the exact-match/miss fast path; has_comptime_query still asserts entries_mutex via delegation; the both-tsconfig.json-and-Tsconfig.json case works because spelling_exists sees the lowercase file even when the map slot holds the uppercase entry; and the env_loader.rs has_comptime_query is a separate trait impl and not affected.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes a resolver bug where a differently-cased Package.json / Tsconfig.json / Jsconfig.json on a case-sensitive filesystem causes spurious Cannot read file / Cannot find tsconfig file errors on every run. It touches four files: src/resolver/fs.rs (the fix, ~15 lines in get_comptime_query / has_comptime_query plus a new spelling_exists helper), src/resolver/package_json.rs (one-line error-message fix so the failed path names package.json instead of its directory), test/harness.ts (new isCaseSensitiveFileSystem() probe), and test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (~100 lines of new tests).

The mechanism: DirEntry.data is keyed by lowercased basename, so Package.json on disk satisfies a lookup for package.json. Callers in dir_info_uncached then open the lowercase spelling, which fails on case-sensitive filesystems. The fix keeps a case-mismatched hit only if access(dir/<lowercase>) succeeds — i.e., only if the filesystem itself folds case, which is exactly when the caller's open would succeed.

Security risks

None identified. No user-controlled input reaches the new syscall: query_lower is always a compile-time literal (b"package.json" etc.) and self.dir is the resolver's already-interned directory path. The new bun_sys::exists_z call goes through the existing in-tree syscall wrapper.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate-to-high. The module resolver is on the critical path for every script execution and build, and get_comptime_query is called for every directory the resolver walks. I traced all callers (resolver.rs for package.json/tsconfig.json/jsconfig.json/node_modules/.bin, PackageManager.rs for bun.lockb, pm_view_command.rs for package.json) and they all open the exact lowercase spelling, so the new gating is correct for each. The env_loader.rs has_comptime_query is a separate DirEntryProbe trait method on DirEntryKeys, not DirEntry, so it is unaffected.

Other factors

• Performance: exact-name hits and misses (the overwhelmingly common case) take no extra syscall — the new branch only fires when base() != query_lower, which requires a differently-cased sibling. The syscall happens under entries_mutex, but so does the map lookup itself, and this only occurs in the rare mismatch case.
• Correctness of the both-files case: when both tsconfig.json and Tsconfig.json exist on a case-sensitive FS, only one wins the lowercased map slot; if the uppercase one wins, spelling_exists(b"tsconfig.json") still returns true (the lowercase file exists), so the caller opens tsconfig.json and succeeds. Covered by a test.
• Test quality: tests cover the case-sensitive path (skipped elsewhere via the new probe), the case-insensitive path (Windows/macOS), the both-files control, and the error-message fix via a dangling symlink. Follows harness conventions (tempDir, concurrent pipe drain, exit-code assertion last).
• has_comptime_query now delegates to get_comptime_query, so the debug_assert_entries_mutex_held check is preserved.

I'm deferring rather than approving because this is a semantic change to a resolver primitive with multiple call sites across crates, and the design choice (per-lookup access() probe vs. a cached per-directory or global case-sensitivity flag) is worth a maintainer's eye even though the per-lookup approach is sound.

[robobun]

Thanks, the caller list in the description was missing bun.lockb in src/install/PackageManager.rs; added it. Like pm view's package.json probe, it opens the lowercase spelling right after the lookup and falls back on failure, and that fallback is the branch it now takes directly when the only match is a differently-cased file.

On probing per lookup rather than caching a per-directory or global case-sensitivity flag: whether a name folds is a property of the mount, not the process (bind mounts from a macOS or Windows host inside Linux containers fold, the rest of the tree does not), and the probe only runs when the listing holds a differently-cased file under one of these fixed names, so there is nothing to amortize on the normal path.

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Inline comments:
In `@test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts`:
- Around line 1777-1787: Update the test case around the fixture created by the
alias configuration so it runs only on case-sensitive filesystems, give
Tsconfig.json a conflicting alias configuration while retaining the expected
via-alias mapping only in tsconfig.json, and keep assertions verifying
successful resolution through the lowercase filename so incorrect precedence
cannot pass.
- Around line 1727-1767: The case-sensitive filesystem tests do not verify that
a mis-cased Jsconfig.json cannot provide path aliases. Add a Jsconfig.json-only
alias-resolution test using the existing alias fixture and production filesystem
guard, asserting alias resolution fails on case-sensitive systems and succeeds
on case-insensitive systems; keep the test isolated from tsconfig.json and other
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[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the semantics of DirEntry::get_comptime_query — a shared resolver primitive with callers across resolver.rs, PackageManager.rs, and pm_view_command.rs — and introduces a per-lookup filesystem probe on a hot path, a human look would still be worthwhile. Build #95634 is also showing failures.

What was reviewed:

• Traced all get_comptime_query/has_comptime_query callers; the dotenv has_comptime_query is a separate trait on DirEntryKeys and is unaffected.
• Checked bun_sys::exists_z on POSIX (access(F_OK)) and Windows (GetFileAttributesW) — both handle the node_modules/.bin directory probes correctly.
• Verified the both-files-coexist case: when the map holds the mixed-case entry but the lowercase spelling exists, the lookup succeeds and callers open the lowercase path, which the new precedence test covers.
• The package_json.rs error-message fix and isCaseSensitiveFileSystem() harness helper look correct.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a resolver bug where a differently-cased Package.json / Tsconfig.json / Jsconfig.json on a case-sensitive filesystem causes spurious errors, because the resolver's per-directory listing is keyed by lowercased basename and callers then open the lowercase spelling. The fix modifies DirEntry::get_comptime_query in src/resolver/fs.rs to reject a case-mismatched hit unless the probed spelling also exists on disk (via access() / GetFileAttributesW). has_comptime_query now delegates through the same path. A one-line fix in src/resolver/package_json.rs corrects the error message to name the package.json path rather than its parent directory. A new isCaseSensitiveFileSystem() harness helper and ~115 lines of tests in resolve.test.ts cover both filesystem kinds.

Security risks

None identified. The added exists_z probe is called on a path built from the resolver's already-interned directory plus a fixed static basename (b"package.json", etc.), not user-controlled input.

Level of scrutiny

High. get_comptime_query is on the resolver's directory-walk hot path and has callers across multiple subsystems (dir_info_uncached for package.json/tsconfig.json/jsconfig.json/node_modules/.bin, PackageManager.rs for bun.lockb, pm_view_command.rs for package.json). The change adds a syscall in the case-mismatch branch, and the decision to probe per-lookup rather than cache filesystem case-sensitivity (justified by mixed-mount scenarios) is a design call worth a maintainer's eye. The syscall runs while entries_mutex is held, which is consistent with other operations under that lock but still worth noting.

Other factors

• Build #95634 is marked failing by robobun; the failure(s) should be checked before merge.
• The comment-cop bot flagged long comments three times on fs.rs; those threads are resolved and the current diff has a one-line doc comment on get_comptime_query.
• CodeRabbit's two test-coverage suggestions were addressed in commit 2759cb4 (parameterized over Tsconfig/Jsconfig, decoy config for observable precedence).
• Test coverage is thorough: exercises bun run and bun build, both filesystem kinds via the new probe helper, the both-files precedence case, and the corrected error-path message via a broken symlink.

[robobun]

Build 95634 was the first push: its only non-passing jobs were the two darwin 14 aarch64 test shards, which expired in the test-darwin queue four times without ever starting (everything that ran passed, and the annotated tests were unrelated retried flakes). Build 96072, for the current head, has all 177 executed jobs green with those same two darwin shards still queued.

[robobun]

Closing: this is covered by #44690. That PR puts one case rule behind DirEntry::get, get_comptime_query and has_comptime_query, so the Package.json / Tsconfig.json / Jsconfig.json probes are fixed there together with the import cases, and it carries the same package_json.rs message change.

Check: I built #44690 at 44be24c and ran this PR's test block against it on Linux, unchanged. 8 tests pass. The ninth (dangling package.json symlink) no longer applies on main, because #44968 treats a dangling symlink as a missing entry. The test cases that #44690 does not have yet are listed in #44690 (comment).