[robobun]

Problem

• Object.keys(err), JSON.stringify(err) and { ...err } lose the code of every ERR_* error. Buffer.alloc(-1) gives [] and {}. Node gives ["code"].
• Cause: createErrorPrototype (src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp:145) puts code on a prototype that all errors of one code share.

Fix

• ErrorCodeCache::createInstance makes every table error, with an own enumerable code from a string cached per code.
• AbortError, UnhandledPromiseRejection, SystemError and RedisError rows also get an own name.
• The shared prototype keeps name and toString, hidden. toString prints the code of its function, or this.code for a SystemError, as Node does.
• Verified: test/js/node/errors/ (17 new tests fail on main), child_process-node.test.js, Node's tests. Self-reviewed: 19 concerns raised, 18 addressed. Not done: an issue for the Error: stack header of subclasses (Notes).

Background

• ErrorCodeCache keeps one Structure per code, with a prototype in front of TypeError.prototype (Make signal.abort() from native code fast #13064, for speed). It stays.
• Weighed: a new string per error at each create site (+1 malloc, +1 cell), or a lazy define inside JSC (a WebKit patch). This one allocates a string fewer than main.
• No user reported this and no maintainer ruled. Notes has three questions.

Downsides

• Every table error changes, Bun.* APIs included: JSON.stringify(err) gains "code", util.inspect gains a code line, for...in loses name and toString.
• Buffer.alloc(-1) costs +34 instructions (+0.5%), AbortError +328 (+6.3%). An err.code read: 0.60 → 0.93 ns.
• 96 more bytes for an error with nine own properties after .stack. ErrorCodeCache: 2,808 → 5,648 bytes per realm.

Notes

Where this comes from

• A differential run against Node 26.3.0 found it. No user issue reports it, and no maintainer has ruled on it.
• The request was to merge main into this PR. Commits bfd2ee6 and c72185d do that. The commits between and after them replace the earlier shape of the change (see History).
• The basis is the repo's rules for Node compatibility: "Match Node's full error contract" (the full property set) and "The entire observable surface is compat API" (property attributes).
• Node pins the shape in test-internal-errors.js: Object.keys(myError) is ['code']. That test needs --expose-internals, so no vendored Node test starts to pass or to fail with this PR.

Questions for the assignee

1. Cost. An ordinary coded error costs 27 to 41 more instructions (under 1%). Two cases cost more: an AbortError (+328, +6.3%) and a RedisError (+192, +3.6%). Each of them gets two puts, code and name. A read of err.code goes from 0.60 to 0.93 ns. Make signal.abort() from native code fast #13064 moved code to the prototype for speed, and this PR moves it back.
2. Bun.* APIs. A table error from a Bun.* API gets the own code too: Bun.serve with a bad port, Bun.file(1.5), ptr(123) of bun:ffi. In 76 bad calls of Bun.*, bun:* and Web APIs, 48 of the 54 coded errors change. For a Node code such as ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE this cannot be separated, because node:* and Bun.* code share the helpers. 84 of the 345 codes are not Node's (ERR_REDIS_*, ERR_S3_*, ERR_SECRETS_*, the SQL rows and some single codes). Those can keep the shape of main at the cost of a column in the table and a second prototype layout.
3. RedisError. It gets an own enumerable name after code, as AbortError does. Without it, a for...in copy of a RedisError has no name. On main it has one, from the prototype.

Repro

const { finished, PassThrough } = require("node:stream");
const s = new PassThrough();
finished(s, err => console.log(JSON.stringify({ err })));
s.destroy();
// node 26.3.0: {"err":{"code":"ERR_STREAM_PREMATURE_CLOSE"}}
// main:        {"err":{}}

try { Buffer.alloc(-1); } catch (e) { console.log(e.code, Object.keys(e), JSON.stringify(e), { ...e }.code); }
// node 26.3.0: ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE [ 'code' ] {"code":"ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE"} ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE
// main:        ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE [] {} undefined

	Node 26.3.0	main b1007f1	this PR
32 rows (30 bad calls of node:* APIs and 2 controls) that keep code in Object.keys, JSON and a spread	32	3	32
68 shape lines equal to Node	68	12	63
1,279 automatic calls where Node throws an object: own keys equal to Node	1,279	205	1,117

• The 30 calls are calls where main already has Node's code. The third row has no such condition. It calls the public functions of 29 node:* modules, of Buffer and of some Web globals. Functions that write, spawn, listen or connect are left out. Each function gets (), (null), (-1), ("zz") and ({}).
• In the third row 966 calls are fixed and 54 are newly unequal. Newly unequal means that Bun has a table code and Node has none. In Node new Request("zz") throws a TypeError with no code. Here its JSON is {"code":"ERR_INVALID_URL"}. On main it is {}, because the code is on the prototype.
• With this PR 162 calls differ from Node. In 72 Bun has a code where Node has none (the newly unequal ones are among them). In 51 Node has a code and Bun has none. In 21 Bun does not throw. The other 18 differ in other keys.
• The 5 shape lines that still differ: String() and constructor of AbortError (node errors: mark in ErrorCode.ts the errors that print no [code] bracket in Node #39280, node errors: give AbortError a real constructor so util.inspect prints its class name #39300), process.emitWarning (2 lines), ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR (Make the own properties of native errors configurable #45444).

What changes for a program

• Object.keys(err), JSON.stringify(err), { ...err }, Object.entries(err), Object.assign({}, err): code is there, first. Fields that a producer adds (context, input, reason) come after it.
• for (k in err): code only. On main it yields name, code and toString from the prototype.
• util.inspect(err) prints code: 'ERR_...', as Node does. console.log(err), Bun.inspect(err) and the print of an uncaught error do not change: that printer already printed the code.
• delete err.code removes it. err.code = x does not change String(err): the toString of Node's NodeError closes over the code in the same way.
• Who loses code on main: an own-key copy of the error. That is the Object.assign({}, err) of a logger, process.send({ err }) over JSON IPC, JSON.stringify(err, Object.getOwnPropertyNames(err)) and util.inspect. Who does not: a read of err.code, console.log, and errno errors such as ENOENT, which are not table errors.
• ERR::INVALID_ARG_VALUE_RangeError has seven callers, process.cpuUsage({ user: -1 }) among them. It made a prototype, a toString function and three Structures for each error. The error also had a stray own cause: undefined. It uses the cached row now.
• node:child_process stamps syscall: "spawn" on an error with an own errno only. It keyed on an own code, which an ERR_* validation error from Bun.spawn (stdio: [-5]) has too now. EBADF and EPERM keep the stamp.
• On main, a native caller that made a table error from a String got the value of a pending JS exception back. Now it gets the new error, and the exception stays pending. Only $makeAbortError still converts a message and reads options.cause.

Rows with a name of their own

• A row whose table name is not the name of its constructor gets that name as an own property, after code. The string comes from the table, through one field of ErrorCodeCache per name.
• The prototype of every row holds the name of its kind. So delete err.name on an AbortError gives Error, as in Node. On main that prototype holds AbortError.
• Rows with a producer today: ABORT_ERR and ERR_UNHANDLED_REJECTION (Node has ["code", "name"] for both), 15 ERR_REDIS_* rows, and the 9 rows that Node makes from SystemError.
• SystemError (ERR_FS_CP_*, ERR_FS_EISDIR): the table names these rows now, in place of err.name = "SystemError" in cp-sync.ts. The name is not enumerable and toString reads this.code, both as in Node. Object.keys of the error of fs.rmSync(dir) is ["code", "info", "errno", "syscall", "path"] in Node and here. On main it is ["name", "info", "errno", "syscall", "path"].
• 46 renamed rows have no producer: 34 ERR_POSTGRES_*, 6 ERR_MYSQL_*, 5 ERR_REDIS_* and ERR_STREAM_RELEASE_LOCK. SQL errors come from SQLError.cpp and internal/sql/errors.ts and do not change. Remove dead code from the error-code table and builtins.d.ts #45620 removes dead rows. Nothing here has to change when those rows go.

History

• Before Make signal.abort() from native code fast #13064 (bun-v1.1.22) each coded error got putDirect(code, 0). Make signal.abort() from native code fast #13064 introduced ErrorCodeCache and put name and code on the cached per-code prototype, for speed. The cached Structure and the prototype stay. Only code moves back.
• node errors: make .code an own property on ERR_* errors #35926 was the first attempt. It was closed in favour of this PR.
• The earlier shape of this PR put a new string on the error at three create sites. It allocated 3 string cells per Buffer.alloc(-1) error (main: 2, now: 1), stamped syscall: "spawn" on validation errors from child_process.spawn, and took name away from for...in copies of AbortError and RedisError. It also changed process.emitWarning, ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR and S3Error, which are other producers.

Not in this PR

• process.emitWarning: name, code and detail of the warning are not enumerable, and an Error that the caller passes gets a hidden code. process.emitWarning: make name, code and detail enumerable, and write nothing to a passed Error #47388 rewrites that function. A comment there has the Node lines and the repro.
• ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR (os.setPriority(-1, 0)): Make the own properties of native errors configurable #45444 makes its code enumerable. S3Error keeps a hidden code there. It has no Node reference.
• child_process.spawnSync: an ERR_* error that Bun.spawnSync() throws (stdio: [-5]) comes back in result.error with syscall and spawnargs. Node puts only errno errors there. Bun 1.4.2 does the same, and the catch of spawnSync() does not look at code, so it stays as it is here.
• A failed require() or import() throws a ResolveMessage whose code is a prototype getter.
• AbortError: String(err) has [ABORT_ERR] and the constructor is Error. node errors: mark in ErrorCode.ts the errors that print no [code] bracket in Node #39280 and node errors: give AbortError a real constructor so util.inspect prints its class name #39300 (issue Pre-aborted child_process.spawn / fs.promises.readFile / http.request use Error as constructor, not AbortError #40342).
• The first line of err.stack has no [CODE]. Node has RangeError [ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE]: ....
• The stack header of class A extends TypeError {} is Error: x (Node: TypeError: x). JavaScriptCore reads the name of the error and of its direct prototype only. That is why each per-code prototype keeps a name. Error.prepareStackTrace: the default formatter heads the stack with the error's name #43234 fixed a part. error: read name/message via full [[Get]] for the .stack header; drop inspect.js workaround #34868 had the rest and was closed stale. There is no issue for it.
• A call where Node has a code and Bun has none, for example structuredClone(). streams: restore the ERR_INVALID_THIS and ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE error codes #47276 covers a part of the streams.
• toString reads name, code and message and then converts them. Node converts each before it reads the next. Same on main.
• fs.cpSync: Node 26 throws a plain coded Error there, from C++. Bun throws a SystemError, as for fs.cp. The errors of fs.cp, fs.rm and fs.rmSync have Node's keys, name and toString with this PR.

Open PRs that touch the same lines

• node errors: mark in ErrorCode.ts the errors that print no [code] bracket in Node #39280, node errors: give AbortError a real constructor so util.inspect prints its class name #39300, Do not define an own cause on native errors that have none #44411: ErrorCode.cpp. node errors: give AbortError a real constructor so util.inspect prints its class name #39300 puts its constructor in the miss path of createInstance. node errors: mark in ErrorCode.ts the errors that print no [code] bracket in Node #39280 skips the toString put. The hunk of Do not define an own cause on native errors that have none #44411 in this file is no longer needed.
• BUN_JSC_immutableGlobals: one switch that makes every built-in immutable #45177 (ErrorCode.cpp, ErrorCode.h): its didCreateBuiltin(vm, prototype) goes in the miss path of createInstance.
• Remove dead code from Exception.h, ExceptionOr.h, ErrorCode.h, InspectorHTTPServerAgent.cpp, and JSBuffer.cpp #45725 (ErrorCode.h), node: give ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT from validatePort Node's message #47239 (error-code-messages.test.ts), AOT: front end, test runs and tests for the rewritten compiler #47942 (private-globals.builtins.ts): adjacent lines.

Measurements

Release builds of main b1007f1 and of this PR, linux x64. The PR build is of c72185d. A build of the last commit has the same parity rows, the same size and the same slopes in a spot check. This container has no perf, valgrind, bloaty or strace. Instructions are user-mode instructions from a perf_event_open counter around the process. Each number is the slope between a loop of 1,000,000 and of 3,000,000 iterations, as the mean of 5 interleaved runs.

per throw and catch	main	this PR
throw new RangeError("x") (control)	2,807	2,806
Buffer.alloc(-1) (C++)	7,342	7,376	+34
path.join(1) (Rust)	5,487	5,528	+41
emitter.on("a", 1) (built-in JS)	7,309	7,336	+27
process.cpuUsage({ user: -1 })	11,472	7,177	-4,295
AbortError from timers/promises	5,162	5,489	+328
RedisError from client.unsubscribe()	5,396	5,588	+192
err.code read	28	37	+9
err.message read	38	37

• Wall clock, 10 interleaved runs: Buffer.alloc(-1) throw and catch 555 ns (529 to 573) → 566 ns (544 to 585). An err.code read in a loop over 1,024 errors: 0.60 ns (0.53 to 0.73) → 0.93 ns (0.86 to 0.99).
• String cells allocated per error (bun:jsc heapStats, no collection in the window): Buffer.alloc(-1) 2 → 1, path.join(1) 2 → 1, emitter.on("a", 1) 2 → 1, process.cpuUsage({ user: -1 }) 3 → 1 (and 3 Structures → 0), AbortError 1 → 1.
• Live bytes per error (20,000 live errors, BUN_JSC_sweepSynchronously=1): Buffer.alloc(-1) 221 → 221, process.cpuUsage({ user: -1 }) 697 → 203, AbortError 140 → 140. After .stack is read: Buffer.alloc(-1) 475 → 474, AbortError 382 → 478 (with or without a cause), ERR_UNHANDLED_ERROR 382 → 478. An error has 6 more out-of-line properties once its stack is materialized. With message and code that is 8, which is the capacity. A ninth property doubles the storage.
• Per realm: ErrorCodeCache is 2,808 → 5,648 bytes (16 + 8 * 349 → 16 + 8 * (2 * 349 + 6)). Both builds allocate it at the first coded error (0 cells before, 1 after, also in a Worker).
• Per code: one more Structure, for the transition that adds code. After the first error of each of 25 codes there are 556 → 584 more live Structures (mean of 3 runs). The count of strings is the same (1,304 → 1,307): the string that the prototype held is now the cached one.
• Binary: size text 140,289,307 → 140,281,887 bytes (-7,420). The file is 8,192 bytes smaller. No new host function and no new table row.
• bench/snippets/node-error-code.mjs (mitata), 5 interleaved runs, average ns per iteration, mean (lowest to highest run):

	main	this PR
throw new RangeError() (control)	313 (288 to 338)	318 (310 to 332)
Buffer.alloc(-1)	682 (639 to 718)	647 (634 to 675)
path.join(1)	525 (477 to 560)	510 (489 to 532)
emitter.on("a", 1)	814 (746 to 869)	726 (698 to 757)
process.cpuUsage({ user: -1 })	1,734 (1,568 to 1,835)	1,020 (991 to 1,059)
AbortError from timers/promises	666 (590 to 742)	675 (654 to 703)
error.code read	0.97 (0.90 to 1.02)	0.94 (0.90 to 1.01)

Suites

Release build of this PR unless it says debug. "Fails on main too" means that the same test fails the same way with a build of main b1007f1 in this container.

• test/js/node/errors/ and test/js/bun/util/error-code-mirror.test.ts: 62 pass, also on the debug build with ASAN.
• The vendored Node tests, test/js/node/test/parallel/: 3,667 of 3,667 pass. Two test-fastutf8stream-* files failed in one run, where a second run of the suite removed their temp directory. They pass alone.
• test/js/node/{events,v8,assert,os,util,url} and test/js/node/buffer.test.js: 2,406 pass.
• test/js/bun/util/inspect.test.js, inspect-error.test.js, test/js/bun/test/expect.test.js, test/js/web/{console,encoding,abort}, test/js/node/timers: 1,344 pass.
• test/js/node/process: 370 pass. 2 fail on main too (the Node version of the host, default properties).
• test/js/node/child_process/: 155 pass. 2 fail on main too (spawn still works with more than 10240 fds open, spawn reports EPERM after dropping privileges).
• test/js/node/fs/cp.test.ts and promises.test.js: 77 pass. The 82 vendored test-fs-cp* and test-fs-rm* files pass.
• test/js/node/stream/ and test/js/web/streams/, each file in a process of its own: 1,051 pass in 20 files.
• test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js, test/js/node/crypto/crypto.key-objects.test.ts, test/js/bun/module-graph/module-graph.test.ts, test/bundler/native-plugin.test.ts, test/js/web/streams/compression.test.ts: 911 pass.
• test/js/valkey/unit and valkey.test.ts: 61 pass. The other 1,050 need the Redis containers of the test harness. By hand against a local Redis: a server error and a closed connection have ["code", "name"].
• Debug build with ASAN: test/js/node/child_process/child_process-node.test.js (32 pass), test/js/node/fs/cp.test.ts and promises.test.js (77), test/js/valkey/unit (61), test/js/web/abort and test/js/node/timers (72), inspect.test.js and inspect-error.test.js (186), test/js/node/util (621, and one 5 s parseArgs stress test that timed out beside a build and passes alone). The vendored Node tests on this build: 3,664 of 3,667 pass. test-child-process-emfile.js, test-quic-session-initial-rtt.mjs and test-url-parse-invalid-input.js (the 90 s limit) fail on a debug build of main too.
• bun build --compile --aot: test/aot/builtins/native-contract.test.ts, the other 7 files of test/aot/builtins/ (42 tests), test/aot/parallel/builtin-modules/errors-with-code-have-name-code-and-text.ts, and a program that calls detached toString functions of a NodeError and of a SystemError on other receivers. Compiled output equals plain output. differential.test.ts: 6,559 of 6,560 pass. NativeBindgenChecker_queries_testingBindTsDescribeCheckerQueries/0 does not answer in 45 s, and fails on main too.
• test/internal/source-lints/ (194 tests), tsc -p src/tsconfig.json, and bun run build:types with src/codegen/check-types-of-modules.ts.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/child_process/child_process-node.test.js

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[robobun]

Status: merged with main and reworked. Ready for review.

Reproduced with 30 bad calls of node:* APIs (Buffer.alloc(-1), path.join(1), fs.readFileSync({}) and 27 more) and 2 controls, compared against Node v26.3.0. Node keeps code in Object.keys, JSON.stringify and a spread in 32 of 32 rows, a release build of main (b1007f1) in 3, this branch in 32. The 17 new tests in test/js/node/errors/ and the new test in test/js/node/child_process/child_process-node.test.js fail on that build of main and pass on this branch.

PR: #41737

CI (build 137931, head caf19d4): every build job passes, and no test of this PR fails on any lane. The 59 red test-bun jobs have these causes:

• 26 files under test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. They are also red on main's own build 137822 at b1305dd, the commit this branch is merged with. That build fails the same number of jobs on Debian 13 aarch64 (18), Debian 13 x64 (18), Ubuntu 25.04 (3) and Windows 2019 (1). The x64-asan lane does not run in main's build. It fails here on the same files.
• test/js/node/process/process-stdin.test.ts on Windows 11 aarch64. Two writes to stdin arrived as two chunks where the snapshot expects one. This PR does not touch stdin.

[coderabbitai]

No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.

Walkthrough

Error-code metadata now supports configured own names. Error construction uses cached structures and assigns code properties to instances. NodeError and SystemError formatting use different code sources. Filesystem and spawn error handling changed, with tests covering property descriptors, serialization, mutation, and formatting. A benchmark compares coded and uncoded error operations.

Changes

Coded error properties

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Error metadata and cache contract src/codegen/generate-node-errors.ts, src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.h, src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.ts	Generated error data now includes optional own-name metadata. ErrorCodeCache declares storage and methods for cached structures, code strings, and own-name strings. Filesystem error mappings specify SystemError.
Cached error construction and formatting src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp, src/codegen/builtins/host/private-globals.builtins.ts	Error creation uses cached structures and assigns code and configured name properties to instances. NodeError_proto_toString uses the code captured by its function when available; SystemError uses the receiver’s code.
Filesystem and spawn error integration src/js/internal/fs/cp-sync.ts, src/js/node/child_process.ts, test/js/node/child_process/child_process-node.test.js	Filesystem error decoration no longer assigns name. Spawn assigns syscall only when the error has a defined code and its own errno property. Tests cover errno and validation errors.
Error property and toString tests test/js/node/errors/error-code-messages.test.ts, test/js/node/errors/error-code-toString-receiver.test.ts	Tests check coded-error property descriptors, serialization, mutation, shared prototypes, and NodeError and SystemError formatting with changed or alternate receivers.
Coded error benchmark bench/snippets/node-error-code.mjs	The benchmark compares caught coded and uncoded errors and reads .code from pre-created errors.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#47276: Adds coded errors for stream validation failures, which use the shared coded-error factory changed here.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to caf19

Table-backed errors gain enumerable code properties. No merge-blocking regression was established.

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[robobun]

Trimmed the three flagged comments to one line each in 83a4fe6. No code change.

[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/jsc/bindings/webcore/streams/WebStreamsMisc.cpp — nit: this comment ("Bun's coded errors keep code on a per-code prototype") is now stale — after this change code is an own instance property and the prototype no longer carries it. The loop still works (it hits the own property first), but the rationale it documents is wrong. Fix: update the comment to say the walk covers both own code and any inherited data code without running getters.

  Extended reasoning...

  errorCodeIs walks error and its prototype chain calling getDirect(vm, codePublicName()) on each. Before this PR, ERR_* errors had code only on the cached per-code prototype, which is exactly what the comment describes. After this PR, putOwnCode (ErrorCode.cpp:148-152) puts code directly on the instance and createErrorPrototype no longer writes it to the prototype at all (ErrorCode.cpp:140-141). No functional break — getDirect on the instance returns the value on the first iteration — but the comment now misleads a future reader into thinking the prototype walk is load-bearing for Bun's own coded errors.

  Verification: nit — the parenthetical in the comment is made stale by this PR's change to ErrorCode.cpp; no functional break. WebStreamsMisc.cpp:431-432 (unchanged in this diff) reads: // Own or inherited *data* property only (Bun's coded errors keep `code` on a per-code // prototype); structures' stored prototypes are followed, so no getter or proxy trap runs. Before this PR, ErrorCode.cpp did put…

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

Addressed the two review notes:

• NodeError toString() no longer reads this.code. The code is stashed on the per-code toString function and read from the callee, which is what Node's closure over key amounts to. After err.code = "X" or delete err.code, String(err) still prints the original code, and err.code itself behaves like a plain property (dd20209).
• Updated the stale errorCodeIs comment in WebStreamsMisc.cpp (dd20209, 06af0af). The lookup itself is unchanged: it now finds the own code on the first iteration.

[claude]

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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 also checked the native refactor in src/jsc/bindings/ErrorCode.cpp for behavior drift and GC safety: the enlarged ErrorCodeCache fields are plain internal fields visited by Base::visitChildren and cleared in finishCreation; the String-overload createError's null-String -> emptyString mapping and the empty-JSValue cause match what the old jsString()/jsUndefined()-options route produced (own "" message, no own cause); and routing the JSValue overload through defaultGlobalObject() mirrors what the sibling String overload already did. The toString private-code slot is read with getDirect on the callee the cache itself created, never on a user value, so the earlier delete-then-toString divergence is covered by the new receiver test.

Extended reasoning...

The change reworks the native Node-error factory (ErrorCode.cpp/.h, the codegen in generate-node-errors.ts and the ErrorCode.ts table) so ERR_* errors carry an own enumerable code and, for AbortError/UnhandledPromiseRejection/RedisError/SystemError, an own name, plus small follow-ups in child_process.ts and cp-sync.ts and new tests. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; it is a JSC-heap refactor of error construction. Four inline findings were posted (two pre-existing compat gaps, two nits), and the PR description still claims emitWarning/ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR/S3Error changes that are not in this diff, so a human should weigh the scope mismatch; the core refactor itself was checked for GC rooting and old-vs-new path equivalence and no further issues were found.

[robobun]

Pushed caf19d4 for the review above.

• child_process.ts: the catch of ChildProcess.spawn() reads own keys with the captured ObjectHasOwn.
• child_process-node.test.js: the stdio: [-5] case keeps its input. Its name and a comment now say that it is an error from Bun.spawn(). The thread has the reason.
• The two pre-existing notes (the toString of AbortError, and process.emitWarning / ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR / S3Error) are not changed here. Each thread says where they stand.

On the scope mismatch: that note matches the description from before the rework. The current description does not claim the three hand-built producers. It lists them under "Not in this PR".

[claude]

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

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked that the new ErrorCodeCache fields are GC-rooted (the cell's visitChildrenImpl goes through Base::visitChildren, which visits all 2*NODE_ERROR_COUNT + NODE_ERROR_OWN_NAME_COUNT fields, and finishCreation clears every one), that no caller of the removed createErrorStructure/createErrorPrototype or of the old errors[] table remains outside the generator, and that the ObjectHasOwn capture is now used at both spawn() sites raised last round.

Extended reasoning...

The push since the last review switched spawn()'s catch to the module-captured ObjectHasOwn and kept the ErrorCodeCache shape; the only remaining confirmed finding is the pre-existing spawnSync twin, posted inline. The rooting, stale-caller and ownNameField index checks above are new and did not surface a problem.

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

• 🟣 src/js/node/child_process.ts — pre-existing: the sync twin of the spawn() fix still stamps syscall on an ERR_* validation error, and returns it instead of throwing. spawnSync's catch at src/js/node/child_process.ts:614 keeps every error Bun.spawnSync throws, and line 680 gives it syscall: "spawnSync <file>" and spawnargs, so spawnSync(cmd, [], { stdio: [-5] }) returns { error: TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE] { syscall, spawnargs }, status: null } where Node only puts errno errors in result.error and throws validation errors. Fix: in spawnSync, rethrow (or at least do not decorate) a caught error without an own errno, the same ObjectHasOwn(err, "errno") test the PR adds at line 1567 for spawn(), while keeping Bun.spawnSync's errno and ETIMEDOUT/ENOBUFS errors in result.error.

  Why this was flagged

  A script calls spawnSync(bunExe(), ["-e", "0"], { stdio: [-5] }). The negative fd reaches src/runtime/api/bun/spawn/stdio.rs:446-449, which throws an ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE TypeError from Bun.spawnSync for both the sync and async paths. In spawn(), the PR's catch at src/js/node/child_process.ts:1565-1572 now leaves that error alone because it has no own errno. In spawnSync(), the catch at src/js/node/child_process.ts:614-624 stores the same TypeError in error, line 642 puts it in result.error, and lines 678-682 set syscall = "spawnSync " + options.file and spawnargs on it; the function then returns normally with status: null, output: null. Node's spawnSync throws validation errors before spawning and only wraps an errno result in result.error. The base branch behaves the same way in spawnSync; this PR fixes only the async twin, so the REVIEW.md sync/async-twin rule is what makes this the sibling left failing.

  Verification: pre-existing — triggered when Bun.spawnSync itself rejects an option inside spawnSync's try (e.g. spawnSync(cmd, [], { stdio: [-5] })), the ERR_* validation error is returned in result.error with syscall/spawnargs stamped (src/js/node/child_process.ts:678-682) instead of being thrown; the base branch behaves the same way, and the PR fixes only the async twin.

[robobun]

On the spawnSync note: confirmed, and not changed in this PR.

• spawnSync(process.execPath, ["-e", "0"], { stdio: [-5] }) returns result.error as a TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE] with syscall: "spawnSync <file>" and spawnargs. Bun 1.4.2 does the same. Node 26.3.0 spawns for that input, and puts only errno errors in result.error.
• The catch of spawnSync() keeps every error and does not look at code. So the move of code does not change it. The one difference with this PR is that Object.keys(result.error) now starts with code.
• The catch of spawn() changes here because it keyed on an own code. To make spawnSync() throw what is not an errno error changes its contract, and it has cases of its own to keep (the errors that carry a pid, ETIMEDOUT, ENOBUFS). The description now lists it under "Not in this PR".