shell: reject the promise and stop the pipeline when a member throws a JS error by robobun · Pull Request #42288 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-09-11T08:02:38Z

Fixes #42282. Supersedes #42251 (its commits are in this branch).

Problem

A pipeline member that throws a JS error (cmd | cat > ${new Response("r")}) rejects the promise, but the process never exits. The members that already run keep running, the pipe ends of the failed member and of the members after it stay open, and a producer that writes more than the pipe buffer blocks forever.
A state that throws returned Yield::Failed with no node. The failed member never reported to its parent, so Pipeline::child_done (src/runtime/shell/states/Pipeline.rs) never ran for it, nothing released its IO, and the members after it were never started or freed. On main the trampoline also left the exception pending (Yield.rs:134), so after the first suspension the promise never settled.

Fix

Yield::Failed carries the NodeId. The trampoline calls Interpreter::fail(id): it takes the exception, kills every subprocess with SIGKILL, reports id to its parent as finished with exit code 1, and then rejects the promise. The rejection runs user JS, so it comes last.
The tree then winds down through the normal child_done path. The sequencing states stop on the failed flag (interrupted()), a pipeline frees the members it did not start (release_unstarted), a Cmd whose expansion completes later does not spawn, and an expansion stops after a failed command substitution. Each freed member drops its pipe ends, so the members that still run see EOF or EPIPE.
finish runs once every member has exited. It settles nothing when the script failed, but it still disables the keep-alive and drops the pending-activity count. No node is freed while a callback can still reach it, which is what shell: throw instead of panic on ReadableStream redirect #33996 got wrong.
Verified: test/js/bun/shell/yield.test.ts (20 new cases, 17 hang or abort on 1.4.3) and shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts (1 new ASAN case). Also bunshell, pipeline_stack, epipe, throw, lazy, shell-hang, exec, file-io, shell-worker-terminate-leak, commands/ and the rest of test/js/bun/shell.

Background

The shell interpreter is a tree of state nodes in an arena (Interpreter::nodes). A node reports to its parent with child_done, and the parent frees it. Yield::run is the trampoline that steps nodes until one suspends.
A pipeline creates one socketpair per | and gives each member an IOReader (read end) and an IOWriter (write end). The fds close when the last Arc drops, that is, when the member node is freed.
hasPendingActivity keeps the ShellInterpreter wrapper alive until finish. A subprocess exit, a pipe read, or a thread-pool task can call back into the interpreter until then.

Notes

Relation to #42251: that PR rejects the promise but leaves the failed pipeline's interpreter pinned and its members running, and names #42282 as the follow-up. Landing it alone ships an interim design, landing this one alone strands it, so this PR carries its commits and #42251 is closed. Here reject_with_pending_exception only takes the exception and rejects. The keep-alive and the pending-activity count are released by finish, as on the success path.

Why kill instead of wait: sleep 100 | bad > ${blob} would keep the process open for 100 s. A member that does write the pipe gets EPIPE once the failed member's read end closes, so the kill only matters for members that do not touch the pipe. SIGKILL is what Cmd::deinit already uses.

In-process tests check the mechanism, not only that the process exits: the member that does not touch the pipe writes its pid, the failing member waits for that file in a command substitution before it throws, and after the rejection the pid is gone (killed and reaped). Two members that fail reject with the first error, and a non-quiet pipeline rejects and leaves the shell usable. A worker that is terminated while a failed pipeline winds down runs clean under ASAN and LSan.

Shapes covered by the tests: producer bigger than the pipe buffer, a member that never touches the pipe, members after the failed one, the failed member first, a glob-expanding member whose glob completes after the failure (${bun} -e ... * | bad spawned the command before the guard in Cmd::next), a subshell member, a command substitution in another member, a builtin producer on the thread pool, (cmd; touch a) | bad; touch b leaves no file, and a failed pipeline is collected by the GC.

The other producers of Yield::Failed take the same path: a failed dup() for a subshell or command substitution, a failed write of the command not found message, an OOM pin of an ArrayBuffer redirect. #40033 changes the command not found write failure to exit 1 instead of a throw; this PR keeps the throw.

Self-review: 10 concerns raised, 3 addressed (the Cmd::next guard, Fixes line, fold #42251). Rejected: a parse-time check of the redirect target instead of a runtime wind-down, because the other producers above reach the same path with no misuse of the API, and waiting instead of killing, because a member that does not touch the pipe would pin the process for its lifetime.

Found while testing, not changed here: ls -R dir | <consumer that exits early> hangs on 1.4.3 because IOWriter reports a failed write once per child while ls queues one chunk per directory. #37719 fixes that. The test here uses ls dir (one chunk).

Probes on the ASAN debug build: BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 and BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=2 over yield.test.ts, all green. leak.test.ts memleak cases and shell-blocking-pipe.test.ts time out the same way on a main build in this container. commands/ls.test.ts permission cases fail as root and the node_modules case needs the registry.

cargo check -p bun_runtime passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin.

no test proof · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/shell/yield.test.ts, test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts

…spension A `${value}` redirect that the command cannot use (an in-memory Blob or Response as stdout) throws a JS exception from inside the shell state machine and the state returns Yield::Failed. The trampoline treated Failed like Suspended, so only run_from_js (the first synchronous stretch of the script) ever looked at the VM afterwards. Raised from any other driver (a previous command's exit, a pipe or task callback) the exception stayed pending on the VM with no JS frame to take it: the next event-loop tick hit 'a task returned Ok with a JS exception pending' in debug builds and abort() in release builds, and the ShellPromise never settled. Even in the first-command case the interpreter was never finished, so its keep-alive held the process open. Yield::Failed is now terminal for the interpreter under every driver: Yield::run takes the pending exception, rejects the ShellPromise with it, releases the keep-alive and lets the interpreter be collected. The Failed producers that did not throw (the WaitingWriteErr arms of the builtins and the Windows IOReader start error) return Suspended, which is what they meant.

The tests exercise the Yield::run trampoline, so they live with the other trampoline tests. Adds a pipeline case. The exception-to-error conversion has one fallback, and finish() asserts that it cannot run after a rejection.

…e drivers A Failed yield without a pending exception now behaves as it did before Failed became terminal (debug builds assert), so a producer that uses it as a wait state cannot cause a spurious rejection. Tests: force a GC after each rejection, reach the failing command from a thread-pool task driver, cover the failed write of a command-not-found message, and check that failed sequential scripts are collected.

…eld-rejects' into robobun/d4e24c54/shell-failed-pipeline-teardown

A state that throws returned Yield::Failed with no node, so the failed member never reported to its parent. Its pipe ends stayed open, the members after it were never started, and the started members kept running. A producer that wrote more than the pipe buffer blocked forever and the process did not exit. Yield::Failed now carries the node. The trampoline calls Interpreter::fail, which rejects the promise, kills every subprocess, and reports the node to its parent as finished with exit code 1. The sequencing states stop on the failed flag, a pipeline frees the members it did not start, and finish settles nothing once every member has exited.

robobun · 2026-09-11T08:33:40Z

A second session worked on #42282 at the same time. It did not open a PR, because this PR covers the same bug. Its branch is robobun/1a6e29d5/shell-failed-pipeline-member, stacked on #42251.

Diff summary: that branch does not wind down through each state's child_done. After a failure, Interpreter::child_done goes to one function that frees the child and each ancestor that waited only for it, so finish stays unreachable and the pending-activity count is released when the last node is freed.

Parts that can be useful here:

Test cases in yield.test.ts for a member after the failed one, a pipeline inside a subshell member, a pipeline inside a command substitution, and "nothing more of the script runs" ((cmd; touch a) | bad; touch b leaves no file).
The new cases pass on a Windows x64 debug build (18 pass, 4 Linux-only skips) and on Linux ASAN with BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=2.
Two shapes hang on 1.4.3 without any JS error, so they are not part of this bug: ls -R /usr/lib | ls -R /usr/lib | true (shell: fail every queued chunk when an IOWriter dies, not one per child #37719) and, with BUN_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_SHELL_BUILTINS=1, cat big | cat | true.

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robobun · 2026-09-11T10:48:05Z

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coderabbitai · 2026-09-11T10:51:05Z

Walkthrough

The shell runtime now propagates JavaScript failures with node context, rejects promises after cleanup, stops affected commands and pipelines, and suspends asynchronous error writes. Regression tests cover process termination, resource cleanup, garbage collection, and continued shell use.

Changes

Shell failure flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Node-aware failure contract `src/runtime/shell/Yield.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/builtin/*`, `src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs`, `src/js/builtins/shell.ts`	`Yield::Failed` now carries the failing `NodeId`. Failure paths use the node-aware variant. Pending asynchronous error writes return suspended yields until their callbacks complete.
Interpreter failure state and rejection `src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/states/CondExpr.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/states/Binary.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/subproc.rs`	The interpreter records failures, stops sequencing, kills active subprocesses, unwinds completion, and rejects the JavaScript promise without resolving it.
Command and pipeline cleanup `src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/states/Expansion.rs`, `src/runtime/shell/states/Pipeline.rs`	Commands stop after interpreter failure. Command substitutions release failed children. Pipelines release unstarted commands and finish after started commands exit.
Failure-path regression coverage `test/js/bun/shell/yield.test.ts`, `test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts`	Tests cover rejection, process termination, pipeline cancellation, garbage collection, worker termination, and shell reuse after failures.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 97ddd

JavaScript shell failures can expose incomplete cleanup to rejection handlers, and single-command pipelines can report success despite failure. These correctness and lifecycle risks should be fixed before merge.

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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue `#42282` requirements are covered. `Yield::Failed(NodeId)` identifies the failed node. `Interpreter::fail` stops active subprocesses, reports failure to the parent, and delays promise rejection un…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within Issue `#42282`. Runtime changes implement failure propagation, subprocess termination, pipeline cleanup, deferred-work cancellation, and callback lifetime handling. Tests exerc…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the primary change: rejecting the promise and stopping the shell pipeline when a member throws a JavaScript error.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it reworks the shell interpreter's teardown ordering across ~450 lines — arena-node deinit in Pipeline::release_unstarted, raw-pointer subprocess kill, and the new fail/finish split for keep-alive and pending-activity release — a human look at the lifetime and refcount balance on each wind-down path would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

Interpreter::fail / reject_with_pending_exception: reject-once guard via the failed flag, termination-exception branch, and that finish still disables keep-alive and derefs IO on the failed path.
Pipeline::release_unstarted: unstarted members are collected into a Vec before deinit_node mutates the arena, and record_result bumps exited_count so finish_if_all_exited can complete.
Cmd::kill_subprocess: null-checks child before the unsafe deref; Cmd::next skips spawn/expansion once failed() but still lets WaitingWriteErr/Done drain.
Tests: subprocess pipes drained via Promise.all, test.concurrent, heapStats collection check polls with a bound, /dev/full case gated on isLinux.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR changes how Bun.$ handles a JS exception thrown mid-script so the ShellPromise rejects and the interpreter tree winds down instead of hanging. Yield::Failed now carries the failing NodeId; the trampoline routes it to a new Interpreter::fail(id) which takes the pending exception, sets a failed flag, calls the cached reject once, SIGKILLs every live subprocess, and reports the failed node to its parent so the tree unwinds through child_done into finish. Sequencing states (Cmd, Binary, Expansion, Pipeline) short-circuit once failed() is true, and Pipeline gains release_unstarted to deinit not-yet-started members so their pipe ends close. Builtin WaitingWriteErr states now yield Suspended rather than Failed. ~210 lines of new concurrent subprocess tests cover pipelines with blocking producers, sleepers, subshells, command substitutions, glob expansion, thread-pool builtins, /dev/full stderr, and a GC-collection check.

Security risks

No direct security surface. The change is internal teardown logic for the shell interpreter — no new user-controlled parsing, no auth/crypto, no network input. The unsafe block in Cmd::kill_subprocess dereferences a heap-allocated ShellSubprocess pointer that is null-checked and documented as valid until deinit; it mirrors the existing pattern in Cmd::deinit.

Level of scrutiny

High. This is ~450 lines across the interpreter's state machine and touches exactly the categories REVIEW.md calls out as most-blocked: arena-node deinit ordering (arena values don't run Drop), refcount balance on every terminal path (keep-alive, pending-activity, IO derefs now split between reject_with_pending_exception and finish), raw-pointer subprocess lifetime, and "every error path must settle the promise and mirror the success path's release ordering". The release_unstarted path deinits nodes that were created but never started — getting the duped-env free and pipe-end close order wrong here is a UAF or a hang, and the interaction between a nested pipeline failing while an outer one is still in StartingCmds is subtle.

Other factors

The PR has good test coverage (17 new cases, most of which hang or abort on main per the description) and the author reports ASAN + BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 + BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=2 runs are green. Twelve inline bot comments were all resolved by the PR author, which per policy is not independent evidence they were addressed. The change is bot-authored (robobun, label claude). Given the size, the memory-safety sensitivity of the teardown ordering, and the author-self-resolved threads, deferring to a human reviewer is the right call rather than approving.

Jarred-Sumner · 2026-09-12T06:24:03Z

@robobun are there better tests you could add?

…er is reaped The rejection runs user JS and drains microtasks. It now comes last in Interpreter::fail, so a catch handler sees the kills sent and the tree settled. New tests: the killed member is gone after the rejection, two members fail, a non-quiet pipeline, and worker.terminate() while a failed pipeline winds down.

robobun · 2026-09-12T07:42:21Z

Yes. The first set only checked that a child process exits, which is the symptom. I added tests that check the mechanism (3ac7879):

the killed member is gone after the rejection (yield.test.ts): runs in the test process. The member that never touches the pipe writes its pid to a file, and the failing member waits for that file in a command substitution before it throws, so the sleeper is alive at the moment of the failure. After the rejection the test polls process.kill(pid, 0) until ESRCH: the child was killed and reaped by the shell.
two members fail: both members throw, the promise rejects with the first error, the second exception is dropped, and the shell still runs echo ok.
not quiet: same shape without .quiet(), so the root stdout and stderr writers are in play.
worker.terminate() while a failed Bun.$ pipeline winds down (shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts, ASAN lanes): the worker posts back from the rejection handler, and the main thread terminates it while the killed member's exit is still in flight. LSan and ASAN stay clean whichever side wins the race.
Earlier in this PR: a glob-expanding member whose glob completes after the failure (it spawned its command before the guard in Cmd::next), (cmd; touch a) | bad; touch b leaves no file, and the GC collects a failed pipeline's interpreter.

One change in src came out of this: the rejection now runs after the kills and the wind-down, not before. The .catch handler runs microtasks, so with the old order a handler could observe the sleeper still alive.

Two things I looked at and left out: expect(shellPromise).rejects never starts the lazy ShellPromise (it does not call then), so the in-process tests await the promise directly. And a test that the interpreter is collected in-process is too noisy next to concurrent tests, so that check stays in the child-process variant.

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In `@src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs`:
- Around line 1367-1378: Update Interpreter::fail to store the promise rejection
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src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs (1)
1367-1378: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Defer the rejection callback until teardown completes. Interpreter::fail sends SIGKILL, calls child_done, and then immediately calls event_loop.run_callback. The kill and stdio callbacks complete asynchronously, while Pipeline::child_done returns Yield::Suspended until all commands exit. run_callback drains microtasks, so a rejection handler can re-enter before the killed commands and pipeline nodes finish cleanup. Store the rejection and invoke it only after teardown completes.
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In `@src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs` around lines 1367 - 1378, Update
Interpreter::fail so the rejection callback is not invoked immediately after
child_done; retain the rejection and defer
global_this.bun_vm().event_loop_mut().run_callback until asynchronous process,
stdio, and pipeline teardown has completed and child_done no longer yields
suspension. Ensure the callback runs only after all killed commands and pipeline
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Preserve the single pipeline member’s exit code

When the only child throws a JavaScript error, Interpreter::fail records exit code 1 in the sole CmdOrResult slot. This branch replaces that result with 0, and Pipeline::next reports success to the parent. Read the recorded last result for single-member pipelines as well.
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In `@src/runtime/shell/states/Pipeline.rs` around lines 366 - 373, Update the
exit-code selection in Pipeline::next so single-member pipelines also read and
return the recorded CmdOrResult::Result value, preserving Interpreter::fail’s
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In `@src/runtime/shell/interpreter.rs`:
- Around line 1367-1378: Update Interpreter::fail so the rejection callback is
not invoked immediately after child_done; retain the rejection and defer
global_this.bun_vm().event_loop_mut().run_callback until asynchronous process,
stdio, and pipeline teardown has completed and child_done no longer yields
suspension. Ensure the callback runs only after all killed commands and pipeline
nodes finish cleanup.

In `@src/runtime/shell/states/Pipeline.rs`:
- Around line 366-373: Update the exit-code selection in Pipeline::next so
single-member pipelines also read and return the recorded CmdOrResult::Result
value, preserving Interpreter::fail’s exit code instead of forcing 0. Keep the
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robobun · 2026-09-13T07:31:40Z

Release dating for the sequential (no pipeline) case, run on Linux x64 with the official release binaries:

import { $ } from "bun";
setTimeout(() => { console.log("2s: still pending"); process.exit(0); }, 2000);
const p = $`/usr/bin/touch marker; /usr/bin/printf B > ${new Response("r")}`.quiet().nothrow();
p.then(r => console.log("settled", r.exitCode), e => console.log("rejected:", e.message));

build	result
1.3.14	prints `TypeError: Blobs are immutable, and cannot be used for stdout/stderr` as an uncaught error, exit code 1. The rejection handler does not run.
1.4.0	`panic(main thread): abort() called`, exit code 134
1.4.3 (canary `5f55496`)	`panic(main thread): abort() called`, exit code 134

The builtin form (/usr/bin/true; echo hi > ${new Blob(["x"])}) gives the same three results, with error: Cannot redirect stdout/stderr to an immutable blob. Expected a file on 1.3.14.

So the abort is a regression in 1.4.0. Before 1.4.0 the process ended with the error message and exit code 1. It never delivered the error to the promise, so the rejection that this PR adds is new behavior on top of the fix for the abort.

…a JS error (oven-sh#42288) Fixes oven-sh#42282. Supersedes oven-sh#42251 (its commits are in this branch). ### Problem - A pipeline member that throws a JS error (`cmd | cat > ${new Response("r")}`) rejects the promise, but the process never exits. The members that already run keep running, the pipe ends of the failed member and of the members after it stay open, and a producer that writes more than the pipe buffer blocks forever. - A state that throws returned `Yield::Failed` with no node. The failed member never reported to its parent, so `Pipeline::child_done` (`src/runtime/shell/states/Pipeline.rs`) never ran for it, nothing released its `IO`, and the members after it were never started or freed. On main the trampoline also left the exception pending (`Yield.rs:134`), so after the first suspension the promise never settled. ### Fix - `Yield::Failed` carries the `NodeId`. The trampoline calls `Interpreter::fail(id)`: it takes the exception, kills every subprocess with SIGKILL, reports `id` to its parent as finished with exit code 1, and then rejects the promise. The rejection runs user JS, so it comes last. - The tree then winds down through the normal `child_done` path. The sequencing states stop on the `failed` flag (`interrupted()`), a pipeline frees the members it did not start (`release_unstarted`), a `Cmd` whose expansion completes later does not spawn, and an expansion stops after a failed command substitution. Each freed member drops its pipe ends, so the members that still run see EOF or EPIPE. - `finish` runs once every member has exited. It settles nothing when the script failed, but it still disables the keep-alive and drops the pending-activity count. No node is freed while a callback can still reach it, which is what oven-sh#33996 got wrong. - Verified: `test/js/bun/shell/yield.test.ts` (20 new cases, 17 hang or abort on 1.4.3) and `shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts` (1 new ASAN case). Also `bunshell`, `pipeline_stack`, `epipe`, `throw`, `lazy`, `shell-hang`, `exec`, `file-io`, `shell-worker-terminate-leak`, `commands/` and the rest of `test/js/bun/shell`. ### Background - The shell interpreter is a tree of state nodes in an arena (`Interpreter::nodes`). A node reports to its parent with `child_done`, and the parent frees it. `Yield::run` is the trampoline that steps nodes until one suspends. - A pipeline creates one socketpair per `|` and gives each member an `IOReader` (read end) and an `IOWriter` (write end). The fds close when the last `Arc` drops, that is, when the member node is freed. - `hasPendingActivity` keeps the `ShellInterpreter` wrapper alive until `finish`. A subprocess exit, a pipe read, or a thread-pool task can call back into the interpreter until then. <details><summary>Notes</summary> Relation to oven-sh#42251: that PR rejects the promise but leaves the failed pipeline's interpreter pinned and its members running, and names oven-sh#42282 as the follow-up. Landing it alone ships an interim design, landing this one alone strands it, so this PR carries its commits and oven-sh#42251 is closed. Here `reject_with_pending_exception` only takes the exception and rejects. The keep-alive and the pending-activity count are released by `finish`, as on the success path. Why kill instead of wait: `sleep 100 | bad > ${blob}` would keep the process open for 100 s. A member that does write the pipe gets EPIPE once the failed member's read end closes, so the kill only matters for members that do not touch the pipe. SIGKILL is what `Cmd::deinit` already uses. In-process tests check the mechanism, not only that the process exits: the member that does not touch the pipe writes its pid, the failing member waits for that file in a command substitution before it throws, and after the rejection the pid is gone (killed and reaped). Two members that fail reject with the first error, and a non-quiet pipeline rejects and leaves the shell usable. A worker that is terminated while a failed pipeline winds down runs clean under ASAN and LSan. Shapes covered by the tests: producer bigger than the pipe buffer, a member that never touches the pipe, members after the failed one, the failed member first, a glob-expanding member whose glob completes after the failure (`${bun} -e ... * | bad` spawned the command before the guard in `Cmd::next`), a subshell member, a command substitution in another member, a builtin producer on the thread pool, `(cmd; touch a) | bad; touch b` leaves no file, and a failed pipeline is collected by the GC. The other producers of `Yield::Failed` take the same path: a failed `dup()` for a subshell or command substitution, a failed write of the `command not found` message, an OOM pin of an `ArrayBuffer` redirect. oven-sh#40033 changes the `command not found` write failure to exit 1 instead of a throw; this PR keeps the throw. Self-review: 10 concerns raised, 3 addressed (the `Cmd::next` guard, `Fixes` line, fold oven-sh#42251). Rejected: a parse-time check of the redirect target instead of a runtime wind-down, because the other producers above reach the same path with no misuse of the API, and waiting instead of killing, because a member that does not touch the pipe would pin the process for its lifetime. Found while testing, not changed here: `ls -R dir | <consumer that exits early>` hangs on 1.4.3 because `IOWriter` reports a failed write once per child while `ls` queues one chunk per directory. oven-sh#37719 fixes that. The test here uses `ls dir` (one chunk). Probes on the ASAN debug build: `BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1` and `BUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=2` over `yield.test.ts`, all green. `leak.test.ts` memleak cases and `shell-blocking-pipe.test.ts` time out the same way on a main build in this container. `commands/ls.test.ts` permission cases fail as root and the `node_modules` case needs the registry. `cargo check -p bun_runtime` passes for `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` and `aarch64-apple-darwin`. </details>  --- **no test proof** · iteration 3 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/shell/yield.test.ts, test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts  --------- Co-authored-by: autofix-ci[bot] <114827586+autofix-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

…s a stream redirect Main replaced Yield::failed() with Yield::Failed(NodeId) (#42288). The two stream-redirect rejections this branch adds to Builtin::init_redirections now name the failing command like the sites around them. Add a test where a later pipeline member throws while an earlier member reads a ReadableStream: the shell rejects, kills the reader, and cancels the stream.

Conflicts: - src/runtime/shell/builtin/cat.rs: main added Step::run (#39147), which is the same mapping as this branch's Cat::take_step. Keep Step::run, drop take_step, and call step.run() from finish_input and on_io_writer_chunk. Branch::WaitingErr keeps main's Yield::suspended() (#42288). - src/runtime/shell/IOReader.rs: keep this branch's start()/start_impl(). Main only removed the `return Yield::failed()` of the old Windows arm (#42288), which start() no longer has. - test/js/bun/shell/shell-pipe-read-fault.test.ts: keep main's shimEnv() split and its new tests. expectShellFault keeps this branch's signature and calls shimEnv(), whose extraEnv type is widened to match. Main now has a module-level `const mkfifo`, so the helper import is `mkfifo as makeFifo`. - test/js/bun/shell/yield.test.ts: keep both sets of new tests.

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shell: a pipeline member that fails with a JS error leaves the other members running and the process open #42282

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