[robobun]

Problem

• Bun.serve answers with Bun.file(fifo). After a client disconnects, the server keeps the reader fd and its poll until the writer closes. 100 clients pin 100 fds, and dead readers take later bytes.
• With Bun.stdin or Bun.file(fd) the fd stays open, so the poll fires on the freed stream: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free in PosixBufferedReader::begin_read.
• Cause: finish() (src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:570) keeps the ref for the read in flight. The reader keeps its FilePoll unless it owns the fd (src/io/PipeReader.rs:339).

Fix

• finish() pauses the reader, which unregisters the poll, and drops the read ref.
• PosixBufferedReader returns its FilePoll in deinit and Drop, whoever owns the fd.
• Windows: the stream hands the fd to the reader, which closes it after a read in flight.
• Verified: test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts. Five new tests fail on main, and a sixth covers a mid-body disconnect on every platform. Self-reviewed: 5 concerns raised, 5 addressed.

Background

• FileResponseStream streams an fd into a response. For a pipe, its BufferedReader reads until EAGAIN, then waits on a FilePoll (an epoll or kqueue registration).
• start() takes a ref for the read in flight. Only a reader callback released it.
• Considered the poll release in the stream's Drop (Bun.serve: stop FIFO file responses from keeping the process alive #37083). The shell IOReader had that copy, so the reader does it.

Downsides

• Still open: a pipe response that ends with no bytes has no framing. The client waits for the idle timeout. Bun.serve: terminate FIFO/pipe file responses at EOF #37082 fixes that.
• Cost: one epoll_ctl(EPOLL_CTL_DEL) when a pipe, socket or device response ends (8 streams, 8 calls). Regular files log the same syscalls as main.

Notes

All numbers are from debug (ASAN) builds on Linux x64, main at 36cd151, unless a line says otherwise.

After the rebase onto main 468efac (the one conflict was the node:fs import line of the test file):

• The report's script: 100 of 100 fds stay open on main for the fetch handler, the static route and .stream(). This branch: 0.
• printf hello | bun with new Response(Bun.stdin): main reports the use-after-free in 6 of 6 runs, now at src/io/PipeReader.rs:663. This branch: 0 of 6.
• bun-serve-file.test.ts: main has 172 pass and 5 fail, and the 5 are the new tests. This branch has 178 pass and 0 fail, with the sixth test.
• bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets.

The report's script: 100 clients request a FIFO body and disconnect, half with a reset and half in order. Main: signal aborted=100 pendingRequests=0 FIFO reader fds open=100. This branch: 0 open, for new Response(Bun.file(F)), routes: {"/f": Bun.file(F)} and new Response(Bun.file(F).stream()).

What each change does (8 aborted FIFO responses, then printf hello | bun with a server that answers new Response(Bun.stdin), 6 runs):

build	FilePoll slots used	polls unregistered	wake-ups of dead readers	fds closed	use-after-free
main	8	0	28	0	6 of 6
only the finish() change	8	8	0	8	0 of 6
only the reader change	8	0	28	0	0 of 6
this branch	1	8	0	8	0 of 6

Either change removes the use-after-free. Only finish() fixes the abort. Only both together return the FilePoll slot to the pool, so a later stream can use it again.

The use-after-free on main: the read is in PosixBufferedReader::begin_read (src/io/PipeReader.rs:655 at 36cd151), from FilePoll::on_update. The free is the drop of FileResponseStream. A release build does not report it. It fails in other ways: ECONNRESET on the next request, a timeout, or RangeError: Out of memory.

A failed poll registration in start(): PosixBufferedReader::start reports that failure through on_reader_error and returns Ok. start() now returns when the stream is already finished. Without that, the paused reader never released the read ref that start() took next. Two responses over the same fd (the second registration fails with EEXIST): 2 streams started and 1 freed before e8826ff, 2 and 2 after it. No fd leaks and the process exits in both cases. LeakSanitizer sees the leak: with the test runner's settings for the ASAN lane (detect_leaks=1, BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1), a build without that guard reports Direct leak of 216 byte(s) allocated from FileResponseStream::start, and this branch is clean. A test for that lane is written but not in this PR, because I could not run it through the test runner.

Windows: a debug build has no ASAN there, so I used temporary log lines (not in this PR) where the read is issued, in on_file_read, and in the reader's Drop. 3 runs of 400 aborted responses over a 16 MiB file: 200 readers were dropped with a read in flight, all 200 callbacks arrived detached, and none of 2423 callbacks with a live reader pointed at a dropped reader. Full responses afterwards matched the file. bun-serve-file, serve.test.ts and bun-serve-static pass on Windows x64 (491 pass, 0 fail). The new tests need mkfifo and are POSIX-only. After the rebase I did not run Windows by hand again. Main's changes to the Windows reader since then only remove #[cfg(windows)] attributes (#44086), and the sixth test runs on the Windows lanes in CI. The sixth test passed its first Windows run, x64 and aarch64, in CI build 123104.

The case that stays open: with this branch, a response over a pipe that is at EOF and holds no bytes took 3988 to 3995 ms with idleTimeout 2 and 4, and did not end with idleTimeout: 0. The head has no Content-Length and no Transfer-Encoding. #37082 changes finish() to write the framing.

A pipe fd in blocking mode blocked the event loop when this PR was opened (bun script.mjs 0<>/tmp/fifo with new Response(Bun.stdin)). #43868 fixed that on main: the reader polls before a plain read. Checked on 468efac: main and this branch both pass.

Not in this PR: a Windows named pipe whose start fails. A Source::Pipe reader closes its handle in close_impl, and the stream's Drop closes the fd when auto_close is set. So a start that fails after the reader adopted the pipe closes twice. Main does the same. After a successful start this PR leaves one close, because the stream hands the fd to the reader. Not verified on Windows.

Tests

• The five new tests take 0.5 to 1.5 s each on the debug build. The fixtures use Bun.connect clients. In this debug build node:net cost 1.7 to 3.3 s per fixture (import and 8 clients) against 0.1 to 0.5 s.
• PipeReader: label a chunk Eof only when the reader is at its end #44036 adds a block at the same place in bun-serve-file.test.ts. Keep both blocks. No source line conflicts.
• The sixth test serves test/js/web/encoding/utf8-encoding-fixture.bin (4.25 MiB) through a fetch handler and a static route. 40 clients leave mid-body. It then counts the open fds, compares a full download of each route with the file, and the fixture must exit without process.exit(). It has no pipe, so it also runs on Windows, where the reader closes the fd after a read in flight.
• The sixth test passes on main's Linux build too, because this PR does not change the sendfile path there. Checks of the test: a fixture variant that leaks one fd per request reports 16 leaked fds for 16 requests, and the server sees an abort for 20 of 20 requests on the fetch route.
• Response(Bun.file) does not double-close the fd on Windows (already in this file) aborts 48 responses in each of 160 rounds and checks a canary fd. It covers a double close on the Windows path. It has no check for an fd that stays open.
• Limit of the sixth test: with the Windows hand-off removed it still passes, because the stream's Drop then closes the fd. It fails when the reader does not close the fd that it was handed. A rework (full downloads that run while clients leave, and two cases that only LeakSanitizer can fail) is written but not in this PR, because I could not run it.

Suites run on Linux: bun-serve-file, bun-serve-static, serve-file-slice-read-error, tls-bunfile-leak, body-stream, serve.test.ts, spawn.test.ts, bunshell, file-io, shell-blocking-pipe, shell-pipe-read-fault. bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets.

Failures here that main's build has too

• The three backpressure tests from Bun.serve: pause the file reader while the response is backpressured #41244 in bun-serve-file.test.ts exceed the 5 s limit in this container, on main's binary and on this branch's. The host load average was 350 to 590 on 16 cores. Their fixture alone took 3.8 to 6.6 s on main and 3.6 to 8.3 s on this branch (9 interleaved runs each), with the right output in all 18 runs.
• shell-blocking-pipe.test.ts "send buffer size doesn't block the main thread" takes about 6.9 s on both binaries (5 of 5 runs each).
• serve.test.ts: "root range port (error message with Bun.serve for EACCESS is shown as EADDRINUSE #7187)" and "/bun:info loopback" (the container runs as root and has no IPv6).
• After the rebase the host load average was 700 to 1100. Five tests of shell-pipe-read-fault.test.ts exceeded 5 s when six test files ran together. Alone, with a 60 s limit, main's binary and this branch's each pass 11 of 11 in 2 interleaved rounds (0.6 to 5.0 s per test on both).
• A run of serve.test.ts and spawn.test.ts on this branch overlapped other test runs at that load and had 15 and 10 tests over their limits. I did not repeat it. CI build 122853 (546703b, the same source) passes both files on every Linux, Windows and macOS arm64 lane.

Regular files: 8 complete responses over a 13 KB file use the reader, not sendfile. The debug log shows the same 9 operations on main and on this branch (9 close, no poll call).

Not measured: instruction and syscall counts from a tracer. This container has no perf, valgrind or strace. The unregister count above comes from the debug log. The release binary size is not measured. The debug binary is 3,472 bytes smaller than main's (810,618,496 against 810,621,968).

Review concerns and what changed

1. The poll release was in the stream's Drop, a second copy of the code in IOReader. It moved into PosixBufferedReader.
2. A Windows-only reader API repeated what File::detach does. It is gone. The stream sets CLOSE_HANDLE after start().
3. No Windows test: the sixth test runs on every platform (155fff3) and passes on Windows in CI. See its limit under Tests.
4. and 5. Comments: shortened.

Alternative not taken: the reader could own the fd on every platform. That moves the close of every regular file response on POSIX from the stream to the reader. This PR keeps the POSIX owner as it is.

Prior art: #37083 fixed the same two leaks in August. It conflicted with main after #38886, #40478 and #41244, and it is closed in favour of this PR.

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Reader teardown now releases polls. File response streams update reader and descriptor ownership during startup and completion. Regression tests cover FIFO, pipe, and file responses, including aborted streams, parked streams, and responses that leave the file descriptor open.

Changes

Pipe and file response cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reader poll teardown src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs	PipeReader releases its poll during teardown. On POSIX, IOReader now deinitializes the reader before closing its owned file descriptor. The non-Windows-only c_void import was removed.
File response reader cleanup src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs	On Windows, start transfers descriptor closure to the reader when auto_close is enabled. start returns if an error callback has marked the stream FINISHED. finish pauses Reader-mode streams and releases the held read reference.
Pipe response regression coverage test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts	FIFO and pipe tests cover client aborts, parked streams, later reads, server exit, and completed responses that leave the file descriptor open. Cross-platform file tests cover mid-body disconnects and subsequent intact responses. A backpressure test comment specifies that the socket pauses again before disconnecting.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ⬆️ High

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 642c0

A Windows named-pipe response that fails during startup can close the same handle twice, potentially disrupting other work. This is a narrow failure path, but its ownership handoff should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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[robobun]

Status: closed. main has this behaviour since #46021 (commit 9b4284f).

• The six test cases of this PR pass on main at 5c6d4e2 (Linux x64, debug build with ASAN).
• The scenario of the report on that build: 0 of 40 FIFO reader fds stay open after 40 client disconnects, for new Response(Bun.file(F)), routes: {"/f": Bun.file(F)} and Bun.file(F).stream(). The canary 1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9 keeps 40 of 40 open.
• The closing comment has the details and the two differences that remain: Bun.serve: release the FIFO file reader when the client disconnects #41874 (comment)

[claude]

I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it rebalances the intrusive refcount on the abort path and changes fd/poll ownership in PosixBufferedReader::deinit/Drop plus a Windows-only CLOSE_HANDLE transfer, a human look at the lifecycle reasoning would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• finish() now pauses the reader and drops the read ref — checked take_read_ref() is a no-op when already adopted (on_reader_done/on_reader_error → finish), and pause() is idempotent, so the success path doesn't double-deref.
• release_poll() after close_without_reporting() — close_impl(close_fd=false) on an already-Closed handle is a no-op, so the CLOSE_HANDLE-set path doesn't double-free the poll.
• IOReader::Drop now calls r.deinit() — with CLOSE_HANDLE cleared, deinit releases only the poll and leaves the fd for the explicit sys::close(s.fd) below.
• New tests: subprocess pipes drained concurrently, fd count polled with a bounded loop (no fixed sleep), test.concurrent + skipIf(isWindows), stdout/stderr asserted before exitCode.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes an fd and FilePoll leak in Bun.serve when a client disconnects mid-stream from a FIFO-backed Bun.file() response. Four files are touched: src/io/PipeReader.rs gains a release_poll() helper called from both deinit() and Drop so the poll is always returned to its pool regardless of CLOSE_HANDLE; src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs's finish() now pauses the reader (unregistering the poll and blocking a re-arm from inside the read loop) and drops the in-flight read ref that would otherwise only be released by a reader callback that will never fire, and on Windows start() transfers fd ownership into the reader so the libuv threadpool source closes it after any pending read; src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs's Drop is simplified to call r.deinit() instead of hand-rolling the poll release; and test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts gains three POSIX-only concurrent tests covering the fd-count leak, the "dead readers steal bytes" symptom, and server.stop(true) letting the process exit.

Security risks

None identified. This is a resource-lifecycle fix in the HTTP server's file-streaming path. There is no new parsing of untrusted input, no auth/crypto/permissions surface, and no user-controlled data reaching a new sink. The change reduces a resource-exhaustion vector (N disconnected clients pinning N fds) rather than introducing one.

Level of scrutiny

High. This lands squarely in REVIEW.md's most-blocked category: refcount balance across success/error/abort/finalize paths, Drop impls, and poll/fd ownership. I traced the new finish() code against every caller — on_reader_done/on_reader_error adopt the read ref via take_read_ref() before calling finish(), so the second take_read_ref() there returns None (gated on READ_REF_HELD), and pause() early-returns on IS_PAUSED; the abort/backpressure paths that reach finish() with the ref still held now correctly release it. I also verified close_impl is idempotent over PollOrFd::Closed, so release_poll() after close_without_reporting() in the CLOSE_HANDLE-set case is a no-op rather than a double-release. The Windows CLOSE_HANDLE transfer is placed after start() succeeds, so a failed start still lets the stream close its own fd via auto_close. That said, this is exactly the kind of change where a maintainer familiar with FileResponseStream's ref model and the Windows File::detach path should confirm the reasoning — particularly that pausing the reader inside finish() on the success path (reached via on_reader_done) has no side effect worth caring about, and that the Windows transfer doesn't conflict with any other consumer of auto_close.

Other factors

The tests follow harness conventions closely (tempDir, bunExe/bunEnv, concurrent pipe drain, bounded polling instead of fixed sleeps, structured toEqual on the JSON result, exit-code asserted last). The fd-count assertion uses /dev/fd rather than RSS, sidestepping the ASAN/debug threshold-branching requirement. The Windows change has no automated coverage — the new tests are mkfifo-based and POSIX-only; the PR relies on existing abort tests plus a manual 3000-abort stress run for Windows. No CODEOWNERS entries cover the changed paths. The bug hunt exited on dry_streak with zero findings and zero ruled-out candidates.

[robobun]

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❌ @robobun, your commit 642c0ec has 1 failures in Build #123104 (All Failures):

• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts - code 1: stdout reader of an unref'd child and process lifetime > an idle reader stopped at the highwater … on 🐧 13 x64-asan

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In @src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:
- Around line 604-614: In the Mode::Reader cleanup branch, replace the pause()
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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the double-release shape introduced here: deinit() now calls close_without_reporting() and then release_poll() on the same handle, Drop repeats both, and the shell IOReader runs r.deinit() right before the reader's own Drop. PollOrFd::close_impl replaces the handle with Closed on the first call and the later calls see Fd::INVALID, so no FilePoll is unregistered twice and no fd is closed twice on that path.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches reader teardown in src/io/PipeReader.rs, the abort/finish path of src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs (including a Windows-only fd-ownership handoff), and the POSIX Drop arm of src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs, with three new POSIX-only spawned-fixture tests. It touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface. Not approved because a verified lifecycle finding (stream leaked when register_poll fails in start()) is posted inline and the Windows ownership change has no automated coverage.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

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

• 🔴 src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs — Operators whose server hits a poll registration error while starting a file response now get a permanently leaked stream and a process that never exits, where the base branch released it. When register_poll fails inside reader.start() (FileResponseStream.rs:248), the error dispatch reaches finish(), which now calls pause() (FileResponseStream.rs:604); start() then still runs hold_read_ref() and read() (FileResponseStream.rs:285-288), but begin_read returns None on a paused reader, so the read ref is never released. Fix: after start_result, return before update_ref/hold_read_ref/read when the stream is already FINISHED (or make every failed read() entry release the ref), so every error path out of start() balances the refs. [also at: src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:613 - Operators serving a file whose poll registration fails now leak the stream, its fd and its FilePoll for the process lifetime, where the base cleaned up.]

  Why this was flagged

  On Linux, two in-flight requests that both return new Response(Bun.stdin) (or Bun.file(3) on the same pipe fd) make the second epoll_ctl(CTL_ADD) in posix_event_loop.rs:653 fail with EEXIST; any ENOMEM/ENOSPC on epoll or kevent does the same. PosixBufferedReader::start (PipeReader.rs:570) calls register_poll, which dispatches on_reader_error (PipeReader.rs:508) into FileResponseStream::on_reader_error -> fail_with -> finish. finish now runs self.reader_mut().pause() (FileResponseStream.rs:604) and derefs the owner ref, but start() returns Ok, so FileResponseStream::start continues to update_ref(true) (FileResponseStream.rs:265), hold_read_ref() (285) and BufferedReader::read (288). begin_read (PipeReader.rs:661) returns None because IS_PAUSED is set, so nothing ever adopts the READ_REF_HELD ref; the refcount stays at 1 forever, Drop never runs, the fd is never closed when auto_close is…

  Verification: normal — triggered whenever register_poll fails inside reader.start() (Linux EEXIST from a second concurrent new Response(Bun.stdin)/Bun.file(fd) on the same pollable fd, or ENOMEM/ENOSPC on epoll_ctl/kevent). Mechanism verified: 1. PosixBufferedReader::start (/home/claude/bun/src/io/PipeReader.rs:566-573) calls register_poll and discards its bool, always returning Ok(()).…

[robobun]

The finding about a failed poll registration in start() is correct. e8826ff fixes it.

PosixBufferedReader::start reports a failed registration through on_reader_error and returns Ok. start() then took a read ref on a stream that finish() had already ended. On main the read that follows fails to register a second time, and that second error releases the ref. With the reader paused by finish(), that read does nothing, so the stream stayed allocated. start() now returns when the stream is already finished.

Measured with two responses over the same fd (new Response(Bun.stdin), the second registration fails with EEXIST), 3 of 3 runs each:

build	streams started	streams freed
before e8826ff	2	1
e8826ff	2	2

The process exited in both cases and no fd leaked, because the stream does not own stdin. I found no effect of this leak that a test can observe without the debug log, so this commit has no test of its own.

[claude]

I reviewed the latest push (the route fixture no longer hard-codes its abort count, and the new FINISHED guard in start() is correct: after a poll-registration failure finish() has already released the owner ref, so the start guard is the last ref) and found no bugs. Because this changes intrusive-refcount and FilePoll teardown ordering in native code, plus a Windows-only fd-ownership handoff that is not compiled on this platform, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Ref balance in finish() on every terminal path (abort, EOF via on_reader_done, error, backpressure) — take_read_ref is idempotent and each entry point holds its own guard, so no double-release.
• release_poll() in PosixBufferedReader::deinit/Drop for all callers with CLOSE_HANDLE set (spawn, shell, multi_run, filter_run) — the handle is already Closed there, so it is a no-op; IOReader's swap to deinit() matches the old close_impl(None, None, false) behavior.
• Windows: with CLOSE_HANDLE inserted after start(), close_impl takes the File::detach path, which waits for an in-flight uv_fs_read and then closes the fd; auto_close is cleared so Drop does not close it a second time.

Extended reasoning...

The change is ~37 lines across src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs and src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs, plus three POSIX-only subprocess regression tests in test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts. It touches no injection, auth, or data-exposure surface; the sensitive surface is native memory safety (intrusive refcounts, FilePoll registration, and fd ownership across a libuv threadpool read on Windows). The traced paths are balanced and the sibling callers of deinit() are unaffected, but the Windows branch cannot be type-checked here and the refcount ordering is subtle enough that maintainer eyes are warranted. The prior nit on the route fixture was addressed by the latest commit, and there is no outstanding CHANGES_REQUESTED review.

[robobun]

The head is up to date with main again: rebased onto 468efac, new head 546703b. The one conflict was the node:fs import line in test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts (both sets of names are kept), and the source change is the same as before.

[claude]

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the new release_poll() for the two callers that clear CLOSE_HANDLE (src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:228 and src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs:126): both keep their own fd copy, so the reader's handle becoming Closed on deinit/Drop does not affect the owner's close, and the deinit-then-Drop double call in IOReader is a no-op the second time. The finish() ref drop on the abort path is also balanced — on_aborted runs under its own RefPtr::init_ref guard, so the free lands there, not inside finish().

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the POSIX pipe reader's poll release, FileResponseStream's start/finish lifecycle (ref balance, Windows fd ownership transfer), and the shell IOReader drop path, with no security-sensitive surface. One inline finding stands on the untested Windows ownership path; this note records the adjacent fd-ownership and refcount paths that were examined and found consistent.

[claude]

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

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🟡 Minor · Avoid the second close after pipe adoption fails. · FileResponseStream.rs:259-265

src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs:259-265
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid the second close after pipe adoption fails.

FileRoute can pass a named-pipe descriptor with auto_close: true. Source::open adopts the same native handle as Source::Pipe, then start_with_current_pipe() can fail. The error path leaves auto_close set, so Source::Pipe teardown closes the handle and FileResponseStream::drop also schedules uv_fs_close for self.fd. The Drop body schedules the stream close before the reader field is dropped, but both operations still target the same handle. If the Windows handle value is reused before the second operation runs, the second close can close an unrelated handle.

Preserve stream ownership when Source::open fails, and clear auto_close only when the reader has adopted a pipe:

Suggested fix

diff --git a/src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs b/src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs
@@
         };
         if let Err(err) = start_result {
+            #[cfg(windows)]
+            if this_ref.reader.get().has_pipe_source() {
+                this_ref.auto_close.set(false);
+            }
             this_ref.fail_with(err);
             return;
         }
diff --git a/src/io/PipeReader.rs b/src/io/PipeReader.rs
@@
     pub fn has_pending_activity(&self) -> bool {
         let Some(source) = &self.source else {
             return false;
         };
@@
         }
     }
+
+    pub fn has_pipe_source(&self) -> bool {
+        matches!(self.source.as_ref(), Some(Source::Pipe(_)))
+    }

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265:
In the `start_result` error path, clear `auto_close` only when the reader has
adopted a `Source::Pipe`; preserve stream ownership when `Source::open` fails
before adoption. Add or reuse a reader predicate such as `has_pipe_source` to
distinguish these cases before calling `fail_with`.

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- Around line 259-265: In the `start_result` error path, clear `auto_close` only
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[robobun]

About the named-pipe finding (a start that fails after the reader adopted the pipe closes the handle twice):

• The two closes are on main as well. A Source::Pipe reader closes its handle in close_impl whatever CLOSE_HANDLE says, and the stream's Drop closes the fd when auto_close is set.
• On main that holds for a named-pipe response that started, too. This PR removes that case: after a successful start() the stream hands the fd to the reader and no longer closes it.
• The failed-start case stays as it is on main. I cannot run Windows at the moment, and I do not want to change a Windows-only error path without a run. It is in the Notes of the description as an open point.

[robobun]

Closing: main already has this behaviour.

• Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021 (commit 9b4284f) landed it. On POSIX, FileResponseStream::finish() now drops the ref of the parked read, and Drop releases the poll.
• I put the six test cases of this PR on main at 5c6d4e2. Then I ran bun bd test test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-file.test.ts (Linux x64, debug build with ASAN). All six pass, and the file has 182 pass and 0 fail. The file also passes with the leak check settings of the CI ASAN lane.
• The IOReader change in this PR is a refactor. main keeps the same poll release in the Drop of IOReader.

Two things in this PR are not on main, and no test of this PR covers them. Each one needs its own change on top of main. I passed both on as separate work:

• A response whose poll registration fails still reads the fd after Bun closes its connection. This happens with two responses at the same time over one pipe fd (Bun.file(fd)). On main the failed response consumed all 1000 bytes in the pipe, and the first response got none. With 200000 bytes in the pipe, LeakSanitizer also reports 216 bytes from FileResponseStream::start.
• On Windows, main keeps the stream after a disconnect until its reader is at the end of the file. I read this from the code and did not run it on Windows.

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