[robobun]

Problem

• cmd &> ${buf} loses output (buf is an ArrayBuffer or typed array). Each stream writes from offset 0, so the second writer overwrites the first. sh -c 'echo out-line; echo err-line >&2' &> ${buf} leaves only err-line\n.
• A builtin gets two BuiltinIO::ArrayBuf { buf, i: 0 } values (src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs:686). A spawned command gets two pipes, each with its own cursor (src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs:751).
• A spawned cmd &> ${Bun.file(fd)} loses stderr. The Blob arm (Cmd.rs:757) is an else if chain: only stdout gets the fd.

Fix

• Builtin: both streams share one Rc<Cell<u32>> cursor.
• Spawned command: with a buffer target, stderr becomes a Stdio::Dup2 of stdout's pipe, as for a plain 2>&1. Two pipes cannot keep write order, because the shell reads them in poll order. With a Bun.file(fd) target, both streams get the fd.
• Windows: spawn_process_windows frees the unused uv::Pipe of a dup target. A plain 2>&1 leaked it.
• Verified: test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts, four new tests. They fail on main a8b5e92 and pass with the fix.

Background

• A builtin runs inside bun. A spawned command writes to a pipe, and a PipeReader copies each chunk into the buffer.
• Stdio::Dup2 { out, to } makes the child's out fd a duplicate of its to fd.
• Bun.file(path) is inlined into the script as a path. Only Bun.file(fd) reaches the Blob arm.

Downsides

• A builtin with a buffer redirect makes one more 24-byte allocation, for > and 2> too. .text stays at 82,257,737 bytes.
• Still broken: a builtin's > ${Bun.file(fd)} writes nothing, a separate defect on main. 2>&1 ${buf} keeps two cursors.

Notes

Found by a read of the code during other shell work. No user reported it. The separate cursors date from the first shell commit (#7748), which copied one { buf, i: 0 } value into both slots. Workarounds on a released bun: cmd 2>&1 | cat > ${buf}, or cmd 2>&1 and read .stdout.

Reproduction (1.4.3 and main a8b5e92):

import { $ } from "bun";
$.nothrow();
const a = new Uint8Array(256);
await $`ls /usr/bin/env /nonexistent-dir-zz &> ${a}`.quiet();
// a holds only "ls: /nonexistent-dir-zz: No such file or directory\n"
const b = new Uint8Array(256);
await $`sh -c 'echo out-line; echo err-line >&2' &> ${b}`.quiet();
// b holds only "err-line\n"

Left alone on purpose, with the reason:

• 2>&1 ${buf} and 1>&2 ${buf} keep one pipe and one cursor per stream, as on main. These spellings reach a buffer target by accident: the parser takes the word after an fd dup as a file target. bash passes that word to the command as an argument. shell: keep words after a redirection as arguments of the same command #34901 makes bun do the same, which removes the path. A test here would pin the accident.
• A builtin with a Bun.file(fd) target (Builtin.rs:721). On main a8b5e92, echo out > ${Bun.file(fd)} exits 0 and the file stays empty, because BuiltinIO::Blob writes are a no-op. With &>, stdout is dropped and stderr still reaches .stderr, because the else if chain never assigns it. To assign it now would drop the error text too. The fix is a real writer on the fd that both streams share. shell: fix inverted file-blob check for builtin > ${Response(...)} redirect #35318 had that fix. The stale bot closed it on 2026-10-23 with no maintainer comment, and no open PR covers it now. It is a change of its own, so it is not in this PR.
• The Response arm of init_subproc_redirections (Cmd.rs:778). cmd &> ${new Response(Bun.file(fd))} throws Blobs are immutable, and cannot be used for stdout/stderr before the spawn, because the second use_as_any_blob() sees a used body. That is a loud failure, not lost output. shell: open a Response over Bun.file(path) as a file redirect #46687 turns a Response over Bun.file(path) into a path redirect.

Other open PRs that touch the same code:

• shell: open a Response over Bun.file(path) as a file redirect #46687 and shell: reject a stream, used, failed or S3-backed Response body as stdin #42786 change the head of the two JS object arms. This diff is inside the arm bodies, so there is no textual overlap.
• shell: keep words after a redirection as arguments of the same command #34901 edits the two duplicate_out() lines of the buffer arm in Cmd.rs. The merge is mechanical.
• shell: reject >> to a Buffer/ArrayBuffer instead of silently overwriting from offset 0 #36480 rejects >> to a buffer. For that reason there is no &>> test here. &>> takes the same code path as &>.
• Remove libuv on Windows #42819 removes libuv on Windows and deletes spawn_process_windows. If it lands first, the src/spawn/process.rs hunk goes away with it.

This branch is rebased on #46021, which made the builtin write arm read the live range of the buffer. The rebase kept that and changed only how the cursor is read and written. A second rebase, onto #47238 (main 2871f0c), dropped the use std::sync::Arc import that #47238 removed. The diff is otherwise the same.

Cost, measured on release builds of a8b5e92 and of this branch (size, nm -S):

• .text is 82,257,737 bytes in both. The stripped binary is 107,837,152 bytes in both.
• The shell functions that changed net to -5 bytes. The larger ones: BuiltinIO::write_no_io_to +23, drop_glue::<BuiltinIO> +25, a new Rc<Cell<u32>>::drop_slow of 27, Cmd::transition_to_exec +15, Rm::next -144.
• The one new allocation per builtin buffer redirect is the Rc (two counts and the u32, 24 bytes). A spawned &> ${buf} now opens one pipe, not two.
• There is no instruction count. perf and valgrind are not installed in the container.

The Windows free has no test of its own. The leak is one never-initialized uv::Pipe (a few hundred bytes) per command. An RSS probe ran the same command 2000 times on a stock binary. Two runs gave -1084 KB and +416 KB, so the signal is below the noise. as_spawn_option (src/runtime/api/bun/spawn/stdio.rs:199) documents the contract: the caller must move the pipe into WindowsStdioResult::Buffer or free it with close_and_destroy. The dup-target branch did neither on the success path. The error path already frees it through WindowsStdio::deinit. close_and_destroy frees a pipe whose loop_ is null without a uv_close. Only the shell builds a Stdio::Dup2, so Bun.spawn never reaches this branch. The existing 2>&1 tests and the new buffer test run the free on every Windows run.

Test notes:

• ls with two operands runs one thread-pool task per operand, so the order of its two lines is not fixed. That test sorts the lines.
• The yes test is the deterministic builtin case. yes fills the 64-byte buffer, then writes yes: ENOSPC\n to stderr. Before the fix that message replaced the first 12 bytes of the output.
• The spawned-command tests assert strict write order. The existing 2>&1 tests in the same file assert the same order for a bun child.

Probe: a child that writes 2000 lines of 100 bytes to each stream, in turns. All 404000 bytes arrive and the lines alternate, on Linux and on Windows. On 1.4.3 about half of the bytes survive.

Runs:

• Linux x64, debug build (ASAN) of a8b5e92 plus this branch: bunshell.test.ts 468 pass, 0 fail. With the src/ of a8b5e92 the four new tests fail. The four tests run concurrently. 20 repeats gave no failure.
• Linux x64, debug build (ASAN) of 2871f0c plus this branch, after the second rebase: bunshell.test.ts 468 pass, 0 fail. The four new tests fail on bun 1.4.3.
• Windows x64, before the rebase (0d3492e plus this branch): bunshell.test.ts 424 pass, 5 fail. The five are tilde_expansion tests that fail the same way with the stock binary on that machine. CI passed on every Windows lane at that point.
• Windows after the rebases: not run locally. cargo check -p bun_spawn --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc passes on 2871f0c plus this branch.

Self-reviewed: three concerns raised, three addressed. The first version also rerouted 2>&1 ${buf}, which is out. The Bun.file(fd) arm came in. The Windows free was out for one push and is back. Without it this PR adds a leak that main does not have for &> ${buf}.

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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/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts

[robobun]

Status: ready for review. Rebased on main 2871f0c.

Reproduced on bun 1.4.3, Linux x64:

bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts -t "redirect stdout and stderr to one JS object"

The four new tests fail on bun 1.4.3 and pass with this branch. Before the rebase they also failed with the src/ of main a8b5e92. The whole file gives 468 pass, 0 fail with this branch on a debug build of 2871f0c.

CI on 50d41c2 (build 134736): every Linux, Windows and macOS arm64 test job passes. The only red jobs are the five test-aot-drawn jobs, on six test/aot/* files that check AOT code generation and memory budgets. The same files fail on builds of main. The two macOS x64 test jobs expired before an agent took them. This diff changes shell redirect code only.

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Shell ArrayBuffer redirects now share a write cursor across stdout and stderr. Command redirection maps combined ArrayBuffer output to stdout and applies Blob redirects to each selected stream. Windows duplicate targets close unused buffer pipes. Tests cover builtin and external output ordering, buffer exhaustion, and descriptor-backed file redirects.

Changes

Shared redirect buffers

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared ArrayBuffer cursor src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs	BuiltinIO::ArrayBuf stores its cursor in Rc<Cell<u32>>. Reads and writes use the shared cursor for stdout and stderr redirects.
Redirect stream wiring src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs, src/spawn/process.rs	ArrayBuffer &> redirects share stdout through Dup2. Blob redirects apply independently to each selected stream. Windows duplicate targets close unused buffer pipes.
Combined redirect tests test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts	Tests cover builtin and external output ordering, buffer exhaustion, and descriptor-backed Bun.file redirects.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, jarred-sumner

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 50d41

Combined output redirected to a path-backed file can lose data. Fix the shared file handling before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked whether the shared Rc<Cell<u32>> cursor in Builtin.rs can be touched off the JS thread: ls builds each operand's output in the task's own buffer on the pool and only writes through BuiltinIO in run_from_main_thread, and Rc makes BuiltinIO !Send, so any future cross-thread use is a compile error rather than a race. Also checked the three blob_ref.dupe() calls in the Blob arm of Cmd.rs — each is consumed by extract_blob, so the refcount stays balanced.

Extended reasoning...

Four verified findings are being posted inline (the Windows uv::Pipe leak that the base branch did not have for &> ${buf}, the untouched if/else if Blob chain in Builtin::init_redirections, the untouched Response arm in Cmd.rs, and the 2>&1 ${buf} spelling still overwriting), so a human needs to weigh those; this note only records what was additionally examined and ruled out from the diff: the thread-affinity of the new Rc<Cell<u32>> cursor (writes happen on the JS thread in ls.rs:630 run_from_main_thread; the Rc makes the enum !Send, which is compiler-enforced) and the Blob dupe refcounts in the rewritten Cmd.rs arm (each dupe is passed by value into extract_blob).

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

• 🟣 src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs — pre-existing: a builtin run as ls missing &> ${Bun.file(fd)} still sends its stderr to the shell's own stderr instead of the redirect target, so the error text leaks to the terminal or .stderr. The Blob arm at Builtin.rs:777-783 is the same if/else if/else if chain this PR rewrote in Cmd.rs:770-790; with &> only redirect.stdout() is taken and me.stderr is never assigned. Fix: make the three assignments independent ifs here too, mirroring the Cmd.rs change, so &> assigns both me.stdout and me.stderr for a fd-backed Blob target. The PR note that #35318 owns builtin Blob output only covers the no-op BuiltinIO::Blob writes, not the unassigned stderr.

  Extended reasoning...

  The base branch has the same chain at this site, so this is a pre-existing sibling of the defect the PR fixes in Cmd.rs. Builtin::init_redirections reaches the as_class_ref::<Blob>() arm for Bun.file(fd) because shell_body.rs:346-370 only inlines path-backed files; fd-backed ones are pushed to jsobjs. For &> the flags are STDOUT|STDERR (parse.rs:431). At Builtin.rs:777 redirect.stdin() is false, so line 779 else if redirect.stdout() is taken and me.stdout = BuiltinIO::Blob(theblob); the else if redirect.stderr() at line 781 is never evaluated. me.stderr keeps the value set by BuiltinIO::from_out_kind(cmd.io.stderr), i.e. the shell's stderr (a Fd writer or the captured Buf(IoKind::Stderr)). When ls then calls Builtin::write_no_io(interp, cmd, IoKind::Stderr, ..) (ls.rs:300) or enqueue on stderr (ls.rs:295-298), the message ls: missing: No such file or directory goes to the terminal or to the ShellOutput .stderr, not to the fd the user redirected to. Cmd.rs:770-790 was changed in this PR to three independent ifs precisely to give stderr the same…

  Verification: pre-existing (same chain on the base commit; acknowledged in diff only partially — the PR description says the builtin Bun.file(fd) target "drops its output for every operator, because BuiltinIO::Blob writes are a no-op. #35318 owns that", which is a different defect from stderr never being redirected at all). Trigger: a builtin with &> ${Bun.file(fd)} (or &>>), i.e.… | pre-existing —…

• 🟣 src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs — Users who write cmd &> ${new Response(Bun.file(fd))} still get a thrown "Blobs are immutable, and cannot be used for stdout/stderr" error and no spawn, after a PR whose stated purpose is making &> reach both streams for JS object targets. The Response arm at Cmd.rs:798-809 is the untouched sibling of the Blob arm the PR fixed: each if calls use_as_any_blob() on the same body, and the second call (Body.rs:1296/1299) returns an empty default Blob, which extract_blob rejects at stdio.rs:634. Fix: read the body's blob once and dupe() it into every set slot, exactly as the Blob arm at Cmd.rs:773-788 now does, so &> and &>> targets built from a Response/Request behave like Bun.file(fd).

  Extended reasoning...

  User runs $\cmd &> ${new Response(Bun.file(fd))}`. Parser sets STDOUT|STDERR (parse.rs:556). init_subproc_redirections reaches the Response arm at Cmd.rs:793 because the value is not an ArrayBuffer or Blob. Line 797 calls to_blob_if_possible; body is Value::Blob(file). Line 803 calls use_as_any_blob: Body.rs:1274 takes the Blob, line 1299 sets self to Value::Used. extract_blob for stdout sees a file-backed blob and stores Stdio::Fd(fd). Line 807 calls use_as_any_blob again on Value::Used: Body.rs:1296 returns AnyBlob::Blob(Blob::default()). extract_blob at stdio.rs:588 sees needs_to_read_file false, falls to line 634 with i == 2 and throws. The whole command fails before spawn. The dismissing finder marked this pre_existing; I confirmed the base has the same three-ifshape, but the PR's own claim is to fix&>to JS object targets and it converted the sibling Blob arm from consume-once to dupe-per-slot without applying the same change here. Population: anyone using Response/Request objects as&>` targets. Remedy: hoist one use_as_any_blob call above the three ifs and dupe…

  Verification: pre-existing; acknowledged in diff: the PR description lists "The Response arm of the same function" under "Left alone on purpose" with no reason given, and the base branch fails by the same route (the Response arm is untouched by the diff). Triggering condition: any cmd &> ${new Response(Bun.file(fd))} (or new Response(Bun.file(path)), since only a raw Bun.file(path) is inlined as a…

[robobun]

^{Updated 9:06 PM PT - Oct 28th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 50d41c2 has 6 failures in Build #134736 (All Failures):

• test/aot/programs-that-ask-the-shell-2.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64 - test-aot-drawn
• test/aot/perf/start.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64 - test-aot-drawn
• test/aot/perf/generated-code-of-idioms-12.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64 - test-aot-drawn
• test/aot/programs-that-ask-the-shell-1.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 aarch64 - test-aot-drawn
• test/aot/minifying-first-saves-no-code-16.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 aarch64 - test-aot-drawn
• test/aot/minifying-first-saves-no-code-9.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 aarch64 - test-aot-drawn

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That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-43131 executable, so you can run:

bun-43131 --bun

[claude]

I re-reviewed after 06b47f65 and found no bugs; the new dup-target release in src/spawn/process.rs resolves the leak I raised, but a human look is still worthwhile because that path is Windows-only unsafe code that cannot be compiled or exercised from this Linux checkout.

What was reviewed:

• spawn_process_windows dup-target free: close_and_destroy takes the loop_.is_null() branch for the never-initialized pipe, open_handles::remove is a no-op for an unlisted handle, and callers only deinit() options on the error path, so no double free.
• Rc<Cell<u32>> shared cursor: ls thread-pool tasks deliver output via run_from_main_thread before write_no_io, so the cursor is single-threaded (Rc is !Send, so a cross-thread move would not compile).
• Blob arm: extract_blob produces Stdio::Fd(store_fd) (borrowed, child dup2s it), so two dupes on one fd match the &> path shape; each dupe() is consumed by its extract_blob call.
• Tests: yes is enabled by default on POSIX (only cat/cp are gated), helpers exist, and the write-order assertions match the existing 2>&1 tests.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR touches four files: src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs (builtin &> ${buf} now shares one Rc<Cell<u32>> write cursor between stdout and stderr), src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs (spawned &> ${buf} makes stderr a Stdio::Dup2 of stdout's pipe; the Bun.file(fd) Blob arm becomes independent ifs so both streams get the fd), src/spawn/process.rs (new commit: the Windows spawn body now frees the pre-allocated uv::Pipe for a dup target instead of leaking it), and four new tests in test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts. Since my prior review, one commit landed that directly addresses the leak finding I posted; the pre-existing 2>&1 ${buf} note was explicitly non-blocking and the PR description names the follow-up that owns it.

Security risks

None identified. The change does not parse untrusted input or alter permission/auth/crypto paths. The only unsafe addition is the Windows close_and_destroy call; I traced it to the loop_.is_null() branch (direct Box::from_raw drop) for the zeroed pipe from create_zeroed_pipe, confirmed open_handles::remove is a HashMap::remove that tolerates an unlisted key, and confirmed callers (subproc.rs, js_bun_spawn_bindings.rs) only call deinit() on the spawn-failure path, so the success-path free cannot be paired with a second release. stdio_options is [&WindowsStdio; 3], so the *pipe deref type-checks.

Level of scrutiny

Moderate. The diff is small and the shell-side changes follow existing patterns (the Dup2 construction mirrors the 2>&1 arm at Cmd.rs:706; Stdio::Fd(store_fd) from extract_blob is a borrowed fd, matching how &> path shares one fd). The Rc<Cell> cursor is only touched from the JS thread: ls output is routed through run_from_main_thread before write_no_io, and Rc being !Send makes any regression a compile error. The reason I am deferring rather than approving is that the src/spawn/process.rs change is inside a #[cfg(windows)] body that cannot be type-checked or run from this Linux checkout; the author's Windows test claims are unverified here, and a maintainer with a Windows build or CI result should confirm it.

Other factors

The four new tests cover the builtin case (ls with sorted lines, yes with deterministic ENOSPC ordering), the spawned buffer case, and the spawned Bun.file(fd) case with strict write-order assertions consistent with the existing 2>&1 tests. yes is enabled by default on POSIX (only cat/cp are in DISABLED_ON_POSIX), stringifyBuffer/BUN/bunEnv are defined in the file. The bug-hunting run ended on a dry streak with no findings, and no third-party objections are outstanding in the timeline.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

[robobun]

Reply to the review above.

Windows uv::Pipe leak. Fixed in 06b47f6. The hunk is #[cfg(windows)], so I built it on a Windows x64 machine at 0d3492e plus this branch. bunshell.test.ts gives 424 pass and 5 fail there. The 5 are tilde_expansion tests that fail the same way with the stock binary on that machine. The four 2>&1 and 1>&2 tests and the new buffer test run the new free, and they pass.

Builtin with &> ${Bun.file(fd)} (Builtin.rs:775 on this branch). Left alone. Today BuiltinIO::Blob writes are a no-op, so stdout is dropped, and the error text is still visible because &> never assigns stderr. To assign stderr now would drop the error text too. #35318 replaces that arm: it opens one writer on the fd and gives it to both streams, which fixes both defects at once.

Response arm (Cmd.rs:792 on this branch). Left alone. cmd &> ${new Response(Bun.file(fd))} throws before the spawn, so no output is lost. A dupe per slot is not enough there: a path-backed body gives two Stdio::Path opens, and then the two streams have two file offsets again. A correct fix opens the file once and shares the fd. #42786 also edits that arm.

Comments. The three multi-line comments are one line each since 4299f69.

The PR notes now give the reason for each exclusion.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push and found no new bugs; the Windows uv::Pipe leak flagged on the earlier revision is now handled by the dup-target branch in src/spawn/process.rs. Since that hunk is Windows-only unsafe FFI code I could not compile or exercise here, and the change alters shell redirect semantics, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• process.rs free: the dup-target Buffer pipe skips uv_pipe_init (loop_ stays null), so close_and_destroy drops the Box directly; checked subproc.rs, lifecycle_script_runner.rs, and git_runner.rs only call deinit on error paths, so no double-free on success.
• Cmd.rs guard stdout() && stderr(): parser encodes &>/&>> as STDOUT|STDERR and 2>&1 as STDOUT|DUPLICATE_OUT, so only &> takes the new single-pipe Dup2 path; Readable::init already maps Dup2 to Ignore as for plain 2>&1.
• Blob arm: each blob_ref.dupe() is consumed by one extract_blob; fd-backed Bun.file becomes Stdio::Fd for both slots (shared offset), and shell_body.rs inlines path-backed Bun.file as a path so it never reaches this arm.
• Rc<Cell<u32>> cursor: BuiltinIO already holds PinnedArrayBuffer (JS-thread only) and dup_ref still treats ArrayBuf as unreachable, so no cross-thread aliasing.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR touches four files: src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs (shared Rc<Cell<u32>> write cursor for builtin &> ${buf}), src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs (external commands: &> to a buffer now uses a single pipe with stderr as Stdio::Dup2 of stdout; &> ${Bun.file(fd)} assigns the fd to both stdout and stderr via independent ifs), src/spawn/process.rs (Windows-only: free the pre-allocated uv::Pipe of the dup target on the success path), and four new tests in test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts. This is the third revision; the earlier revision was missing the Windows free and this push adds it.

Security risks

None identified. The change does not parse untrusted input or alter permission/auth paths. The one memory-safety-relevant hunk is the Windows close_and_destroy call: I traced the pipe's lifecycle and confirmed the dup-target slot bypasses uv_pipe_init (the fd_i == 1 && stderr is Dup2 branch skips the match), so loop_ is null and close_and_destroy_unlisted takes the direct Box::from_raw path; open_handles::remove is a no-op for an unlisted handle. Every caller that calls WindowsSpawnOptions::deinit (subproc.rs, lifecycle_script_runner.rs, git_runner.rs) does so only on error returns, and the new free is in the post-spawn result loop with no fallible exits after it, so there is no double-free and no leak on either path. The Blob arm's three dupe() calls are each consumed by exactly one extract_blob, keeping the refcount balanced.

Level of scrutiny

Medium-high. The Rust hunks are small but two of them are in paths that need cross-platform reasoning: the Stdio::Dup2 path is emulated differently on POSIX (dup2) versus Windows (uv_pipe fd pair), and the process.rs hunk is #[cfg(windows)] code that is not type-checked on Linux. By eye the pattern if let WindowsStdio::Buffer(pipe) = stdio_options[i] on a [&WindowsStdio; 3] binds pipe: &*mut Pipe and *pipe matches close_and_destroy(*mut Pipe), identical to the existing deinit at process.rs:1720, so I expect it compiles. I was unable to build or run the tests in this session (no debug build present, and test execution was not permitted), so the author's claim that the four tests fail on 1.4.3 and pass with the fix on Linux and Windows is unverified by me.

Other factors

The parser check confirms the PR description's scoping: amp_gt() returns STDOUT|STDERR while 2>&1 is rewritten to STDOUT|DUPLICATE_OUT with STDERR removed, so the new flags.stdout() && flags.stderr() guard fires only for &>/&>>, and the 2>&1 ${buf} spelling keeps its pre-existing two-cursor behavior (the author explicitly defers that to #34904). The yes test exercises the ENOSPC path: write_no_io_loop gets Err from the shared cursor at capacity, then write_failing_error writes to stderr via the same cursor, which also returns ENOSPC and is discarded with let _, so the buffer's first bytes are preserved and exit code 1 is returned. Test helpers BUN, bunEnv, and stringifyBuffer all exist in the file. One github-actions bot inline round and a further commit occurred after my previous review whose contents I cannot see, which is another reason to let a human confirm nothing is outstanding.

[robobun]

#43196 makes a > ${buf} overflow fail the command. It checks each stream against its own cursor. On main, &> can still lose bytes with no overflow, because each stream fits on its own. With the one cursor per target from this PR, the same check covers &>. Until then the docs sentence in #43196 names > and 2> only.

Both PRs edit the BuiltinIO::ArrayBuf write arm, so the second one to merge needs a small rebase.

[claude]

Code review completed

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

[claude]

Code review found no issues

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- Around line 761-785: Update the Blob redirection handling that calls
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• src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs
• src/runtime/shell/states/Cmd.rs
• src/spawn/process.rs
• test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts

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[claude]

I reviewed the four new commits and found no bugs; the src/spawn/process.rs hunk now frees the never-initialised dup-target pipe, which closes the Windows leak flagged on an earlier push. Because that free sits in unsafe, #[cfg(windows)] code that only CI can compile and run, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Windows dup-target free: close_and_destroy takes the loop_ == null branch for the un-inited pipe, and no caller runs WindowsStdio::deinit on the success path (shell subproc.rs only does so on spawn failure; Bun.spawn never builds Stdio::Dup2), so there is no double free.
• &> ${buf} as Stdio::Dup2 for stderr: subproc.rs maps Dup2 to Readable::Ignore with redirect_stderr left None, so the debug_assert on the reader path holds; dup_ref's ArrayBuf arm is still unreachable because 2>&1 precedes the JS-buffer redirect.
• Blob arm if/else if -> independent ifs: extract_blob on a Bun.file(fd) yields Stdio::Fd, which Stdio::drop does not close, so stdout and stderr holding the same fd is safe; each dupe() is an owned value consumed by its own call.
• Builtin Rc<Cell<u32>> cursor: BuiltinIO already carried Rc<BuiltinBlob> and PinnedArrayBuffer, so the shared cell introduces no new drop obligation.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the shell's redirect wiring for builtins (Builtin.rs) and spawned commands (Cmd.rs), the Windows libuv spawn body (process.rs), and adds four tests in bunshell.test.ts; about 60 lines of non-test code. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface, but it does add an unsafe FFI free in cfg(windows) code that is not type-checked or exercised on this Linux checkout, and the author notes Windows tests were not rerun locally after the rebase. The earlier blocking finding about the Windows pipe leak is now addressed by the new process.rs hunk, and the remaining author-resolved thread concerns a pre-existing spelling the PR description explicitly leaves alone with a stated reason. Platform-specific unsafe code that only CI can verify is what decided defer over approve.