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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 macOS clonefile fast path (it fails with EEXIST when the destination already exists, so a same-file copy still reaches the new fstat/inode check), the mode option on the same-inode early return (do_close still runs fchmod on the destination fd before closing), and the possibility of st_dev/st_ino aliasing two distinct files (same identity check libuv and node_fs.copyFile already rely on, so not a new exposure).
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Two findings are already attached inline (the slice-window read_len contract on the same-inode early return, and the unconditional fstat+ftruncate cost on every path-destination copy). This note records only what was additionally examined and ruled out from reading /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs: the macOS clonefile branch at ~line 640-735 runs before do_open_file and cannot short-circuit a same-file copy because clonefile refuses an existing destination; the early-return path calls do_close, which applies destination_mode via fchmod when no system error is set; and the (st_dev, st_ino) equality test matches the identity check used elsewhere in the tree. None of these is a guarantee of correctness — the inline findings still warrant a human look.
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In `@src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs`:
- Around line 801-803: In the clonefile fallback within do_clonefile, clear the
cached stat_ when do_clonefile() returns Err(_) before continuing with fallback
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CopyFile opened the destination with O_TRUNC before it read the source. When both name one inode, the open emptied the file and the copy read 0 bytes, so Bun.write(path, Bun.file(path)) resolved 0 and destroyed the data. Open the destination without O_TRUNC. For a regular destination, compare st_dev and st_ino with the source. A match is a no-op that resolves with the file size, as uv_fs_copyfile already does on Windows. Otherwise truncate a destination that has content before the copy. On macOS, drop the source stat taken from the path when clonefile fails, so the comparison uses fstat of the opened source fd.
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- Line 798: In the clonefile path, clear the cached path-based stat_ in the
non-regular source branch before skipping clonefile, so the later same-file
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On macOS the source stat came from the path, taken before the source was opened, and the copy reused it when clonefile did not run or failed. If the path names another file by the time it is opened, the same-file check compares the wrong inode. Take the stat from the opened source fd on every path. The path stat now serves only the clonefile attempt.
A source fd that the caller already closed made the copy resolve with nothing copied: the destination open reused the fd number, so both fstat calls saw one file. Reject with EBADF, as before this branch. A destination that cannot be emptied now rejects with the destination path, not the source path. An inode number of 0 is not an identity. An empty source still updates the times of an empty destination. Tests: a slice of the same file is compared with the same slice written to another file. New rows cover a directory source, a closed source fd, one character device on both sides, and a sealed destination.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the Fd-destination case that now skips empty_destination — base never opened an fd destination itself, so O_TRUNC never applied there and behavior is preserved; each of the three new early exits (destination_fd == source_fd, same-inode Ok(true), ftruncate error) calls do_close(); and OPEN_DESTINATION_FLAGS has a single use in do_open_file, so dropping O_TRUNC reaches no other caller.
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The change removes O_TRUNC from the CopyFile destination open in src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs and replaces it with a post-open fstat/inode comparison and conditional ftruncate, plus a same-fd guard, with a Linux-heavy test matrix in test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. The two inline findings (stale st_size == 0 on lagging attribute-cache mounts, and fchmod applied before system_error is set on the stale-fd path) already signal that a human look is needed.
The copy skipped ftruncate when fstat reported a size of 0. On a mount with an attribute cache (FUSE, virtiofs) that size can be stale, and the old tail of the file stayed. O_TRUNC never had that gap. Truncate every regular destination that is not the source, as libuv does, and ignore only EACCES on a file that reports a size of 0. A failed fstat of the source no longer applies the mode option to the destination: the error is recorded before the close.
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The latest push addresses both points I raised on the previous version: empty_destination now calls ftruncate for every regular destination that is not the source regardless of the reported st_size, and the source-fstat failure path records system_error before do_close() so mode is no longer applied on that exit. Beyond the inline finding, I also re-audited the new early returns in run_async for fd leaks — the same-fd EBADF guard, the Ok(true) no-op exit, and the Err exit of empty_destination all call do_close() before returning — and the macOS clonefile path, where replacing the Option<Stat> with a local stat_size keeps the size-trim behavior unchanged.
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The diff touches src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs (the off-thread file-to-file Bun.write job) and adds ~200 lines of tests in test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js; it drops O_TRUNC from the destination open and adds an fstat/ftruncate step with a same-inode no-op. No security-sensitive surface (auth, crypto, injection) is involved. Commit 21b3b60 resolved the two inline comments from the prior run; one new confirmed finding about filesystems that require O_TRUNC at open time is posted inline, so approval is not appropriate.
The guard for a closed source fd compared fd numbers after the destination open. Its test failed once on Alpine aarch64: another allocation can take the free number first, and then nothing matched. Call fstat on a caller's source fd before the destination opens. A closed fd now rejects with EBADF before the destination is opened or created, and no later open can take its number first. The guard and its child-process test are gone. The row with an fd that was never open covers this exit in every run.
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🟠 Major · Preserve slice metadata in the same-file shortcut. · copy_file.rs:177-180
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winPreserve slice metadata in the same-file shortcut.
When the source and destination share an inode,
empty_destinationreturns early and setsread_lento the destination's fullst_size.Bun.write(file, Bun.file(file).slice(10, 20))reaches this branch, so it can report the full file size and leave the file unchanged instead of writing the slice. Update the identity path to preserve the source offset and requested length while avoiding truncation of the source file.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 177-180: The same-inode shortcut in `empty_destination` resets
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The last commit called fstat on a caller's source fd before the destination open and used that stat for the same-file check. On overlayfs, the open copies an image-layer file to the writable layer, and a file with several hard links gets a new inode number then. The two stats no longer matched for one file, and the copy emptied it. Take the source stat after the destination open, as before, so both stats describe the same moment. A closed source fd whose number the destination open takes rejects with EBADF through the fd-number check.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the other exits in run_async: every new early return (the fd-reuse guard, the fstat failure, and both empty_destination exits) sets system_error before do_close(), so no fd leaks and mode is not applied on a failed copy. The fd-destination arm skips empty_destination entirely, so a caller-supplied destination fd is handled exactly as on base. A closed source fd whose number is not reused by the destination open still fails with EBADF from the fstat at line 788.
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The change removes O_TRUNC from the POSIX destination open in src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs and adds an fstat/ftruncate-based empty_destination step plus an fd-reuse guard; the Windows libuv path is untouched. It touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Two confirmed findings are posted inline, so a human look is already signalled; this note only records the sibling paths examined and ruled out.
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The copy job opens the source first and reads its identity. Then it reads the identity of the destination path. When both name one regular file, the copy is a no-op. In every other case the destination opens with O_TRUNC, as before. A directory source and a source fd that is not open now reject before the destination is opened or created.
The compare with the destination now always uses fstat of the opened source. On macOS the job reused a stat of the source path that it took before the open. A failed source fstat records the error before the close, so the mode option is not applied to a destination fd of the caller.
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Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):
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src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs— nit: maintainers now carry two unreachable cleanup arms in do_open_file after this change. Nothing calls do_open_file::<{ IOWhich::Both }> any more (run_async at copy_file.rs:746 and :793 pass Source and Destination only), so theif matches!(WHICH, IOWhich::Both)blocks at copy_file.rs:280-283 and :289-292 and theBoth |alternatives at :221 and :249 are dead. Fix: delete the Both handling from do_open_file (and the stale "open source file first" comment at :219-220) in the PR that made it dead, keeping IOWhich::Both for do_close_file at :194 which still uses it.Why this was flagged
The diff removes the only call
self.do_open_file::<{ IOWhich::Both }>()from run_async (old copy_file.rs:731) and replaces it with the Source call at copy_file.rs:746 followed by the Destination call at copy_file.rs:793. A repo grep fordo_open_file::<shows only those two sites. do_open_file still containsif matches!(WHICH, IOWhich::Both) { self.source_fd.close(); self.source_fd = Fd::INVALID; }at copy_file.rs:280-283 and :289-292, plusIOWhich::Both | IOWhich::Sourceat :221 andIOWhich::Both | IOWhich::Destinationat :249; with no Both instantiation these arms never execute. The source close on destination-open failure now happens in run_async at copy_file.rs:794 via do_close instead. REVIEW.md asks that code made dead by a PR be deleted in the same PR. No user-visible failure; a maintainer reading do_open_file is misled into thinking it still handles the two-open case.Verification: nit. Trigger: unconditional. The diff replaces the three-way open with
do_open_file::<{ IOWhich::Source }>()at /home/claude/bun/src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs:746 anddo_open_file::<{ IOWhich::Destination }>()at :793. The cleanup blocks at :280-283 and :289-292 can therefore never execute. REVIEW.md asks that dead code be deleted in the PR that makes it dead.
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The compare with the source now runs inside the loop that opens the destination. The open can fail, make the parent directories, and try again. After that the path can name the source: new/../file with no directory new. do_open_file loses the arms for both files at once, which nothing calls now.
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I reviewed the latest push and didn't find any bugs; the retry-loop point from my last review is addressed now that the identity compare runs before every destination open. Because this changes the order of syscalls and the error-path cleanup in the file-copy job across Linux, macOS and FreeBSD (the macOS/FreeBSD branches are not compiled here), and the same-file no-op is a behavioral choice (a read-only file now fulfils instead of EACCES, mode is applied to the source via fchmod), a human look would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
- Open/close pairing on every exit of
run_async: a source fd opened by the job is closed viado_close()on the fstat, directory, destination-open-failure and no-op paths; a caller's fd is never closed;Retry::Failsetssystem_errorinmkdir_if_not_existssodo_closeskips the fchmod. - The macOS clonefile path: a same-file clonefile fails with EEXIST and falls through to the fd-based compare; only
st_sizeis kept from the path stat, so no stale identity is used. stat_no_pathis re-exported throughpub use posix_impl::*and only called from#[cfg(not(windows))]code; the EINTR-retryingcheck!form matches its two-argument signature.- The same-file test matrix runs unchanged on Windows through
uv_fs_copyfile, which this PR does not touch; Windows CI is what confirmsCopyFileW's same-file result there.
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The diff restructures the POSIX CopyFile job in src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs so the source is opened and fstat'd first and the destination path is stat-compared against it on every pass of the open/mkdirp loop, turning a self-copy into a no-op; src/sys/lib.rs splits stat into a non-allocating stat_no_path; the test file adds three describe blocks. No security-sensitive surface (auth, crypto, injection) is touched, and no CODEOWNERS entry covers these files. The hunt ran dry with no findings and the last commit addresses my prior inline comment about the mkdirp retry, but the change alters syscall ordering and error-path cleanup in platform-gated code that cannot be type-checked or run here (macOS clonefile/fcopyfile, FreeBSD) and encodes a semantic decision for the self-copy case, so a maintainer should weigh it rather than this being auto-approved.
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Beyond the inline nit, I re-audited this version's fd handling and found it balanced: every early return after the source open (fstat failure, directory source, destination-open failure, same-file no-op) goes through do_close(), and the Retry::Fail arm relies on mkdir_if_not_exists having already set system_error, so no path resolves 0 silently. The same-file compare now sits inside the destination open loop, so the mkdirp retry re-checks the path before its second open. The stat/stat_no_path split in src/sys/lib.rs is behavior-preserving (check! vs check_p! differ only in with_path). A human look is still worthwhile for the macOS clonefile branch, which the Linux tests do not exercise.
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The change restructures CopyFile::run_async in src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs so the source is opened and fstat'd before the destination, adds a per-attempt same-inode stat before each truncating open, drops the IOWhich::Both open arm, and splits bun_sys::stat into stat_no_path plus a with_path wrapper; tests add a same-file matrix and fd-leak/ENOTDIR checks. No security-sensitive surface (no auth, injection, or data exposure) is touched. Deferring rather than approving because the change reorders side effects in a core I/O path with a macOS-only clonefile branch that cannot be compiled or exercised here, and one inline finding is outstanding.
Each skipIf that this branch adds now has its reason above it. The rows for a source that cannot be copied share one gate on their describe.
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The platform-gate comments from the last round are in place now, and this pass found no bugs; a maintainer should still take a look because the fix picks a design (stat the destination path, then open with O_TRUNC) that leaves a documented window and changes what a same-file write does, which is a product call rather than a correctness one.
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run_asyncrestructuring: traced the fd-source + path-dest and path-source + fd-dest combinations and the macOS clonefile fallthrough; every early return after the source open (fstat failure, directory source, dest-open failure, same-file no-op) reachesdo_close(), which closes only Bun-opened fds.do_open_fileretry loop: the identitystatruns before each open attempt, so the mkdirp retry cannot open the source with O_TRUNC;Retry::Failstill setssystem_errorviamkdir_if_not_exists.stat_no_pathnon-Linux arm usescheck!(expr, tag), matching the macro's two-argument form;IOWhich::Bothkeeps its one remaining caller indo_close_file.- Things for a human to weigh: the same-file no-op resolves the full
st_sizeand appliesmodeviafchmodwithout opening for write (a 0444 file now succeeds where it used to EACCES), andCopyFileWindowskeeps the truncating behavior behind atodoIf(isWindows).
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The diff rewrites the POSIX file-to-file copy path in src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs (source opened and fstat'd first, destination path compared by st_dev/st_ino before every O_TRUNC open, same-file becomes a no-op), adds bun_sys::stat_no_path in src/sys/lib.rs, and adds about 215 lines of tests covering the same-file matrix. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface, but it is a behavior change on a hot I/O path with platform-gated code and a deliberate TOCTOU tradeoff the author documents. The only change since the previous review is commit dca77b2, which adds the reason comments on the test platform gates that the last review asked for. Defer rather than approve because the design choice (stat-then-open versus no-O_TRUNC designs, the no-op's mode and size semantics, Windows left unfixed) is a maintainer decision, not because any defect was found.
Fixes #20462
Problem
Bun.write(path, Bun.file(path))empties the file and resolves0. So does a link, an open fd, or aBun.buildoutput written to its own path.CopyFile::do_open_file(src/runtime/webcore/blob/copy_file.rs:263) opens the destination withO_TRUNCbefore the copy reads the source.Fix
staton the path. When both name one regular file, the copy is a no-op that resolves the file size.O_TRUNC, as before. A directory source or a closed source fd now rejects before that open.test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js. Main (3f3a9ff) fails 18 of 22 new rows, all pass here (Linux).Background
CopyFileis the off-thread job behind a file-to-fileBun.write.bun_sys::stat_no_pathisstatwith an error that has no path, so a missing destination costs no allocation.O_TRUNCand a laterftruncate. It closes the window below but changes every overwrite: overlayfs copies the old data up, Mountpoint for S3 rejects it, and/dev/stdouton macOS is a dup thatftruncateempties.Downsides
stat(7 file system calls, was 6), no added allocation. Over 2 MiB: one morefstat. Release.text: 1,280 bytes smaller (at 9f70da0).statand the open. If the path becomes the source in it, the open empties the file, as on main.Bun.file(p).stream()source, as in Node. One fd on both sides is unchanged.Notes
Merged with main on 11-01. The branch has main (3f3a9ff) merged in, at f299d81. There was one conflict: the
harnessimport list of the test file, where main addedisMacOSand this PR addedisLinux. Both stay.git patch-idof the diff tocopy_file.rsand tosrc/sys/lib.rsgives the same id before and after.--timeout=90000. CI sets 90 s or more for each test. With the 5 s default, one whole-file run had one timeout:Bun.file(0) survives GCat 5.09 s. That test passes alone in 0.4 s. Bun.write(file, file): copy a pipe or block-device source with the read/write loop #47667 reports the same timeout on debug builds of main.bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets compile.This PR changed its mechanism. The first version opened the destination without
O_TRUNC, compared the two open fds, and then calledftruncate(fd, 0)(the order that libuv uses on Linux). A review finding showed that this order empties a file that the old code never emptied. On macOS and FreeBSD,open("/dev/fd/N")returns a dup of fd N and ignoresO_TRUNC(XNUopen1goes todupfdopenand returns before the truncate step). SoBun.write("/dev/stdout", Bun.file(p))with stdout redirected to a file got a newftruncate. This version has noftruncate: the destination open is the same call as on main.Designs that were weighed.
statthe destination path, then open withO_TRUNC(this PR)statstatand the openO_TRUNC,fstatboth fds,ftruncate(fd, 0)(first version, libuv on Linux)fstatand 1ftruncate, and every overwrite changes (below)O_TRUNC, copy,ftruncateto the bytes writtenftruncate, and every overwrite changes (below)O_TRUNCat open is not the same operation. On overlayfs the kernel copies the old file to the writable layer first (measured with the first version: 14,471,168 bytes written for a 7.2 MB file, 7,188,480 on main). Mountpoint for S3 documents that it replaces an object "only when theO_TRUNCflag is used at open time" (not run). The/dev/fd/Ncase above is the third.copyfile(3), GNUcpand Pythonshutil.copyfileuse the order of this PR: compare by path, then open withO_TRUNC.The window that stays. The destination path is resolved two times: by the
stat, then by the open. If the path names the source only at the second time, the open empties the source, as main does for every copy of a file onto itself.process.chdir()on the JS thread while a copy with a relative destination is in the queue.catch syscall newfstataton the destination path,ln -f src destat its return, continue): the file ends at 0 bytes and the promise fulfils0, for 100,000 bytes and for 3 MiB, with the destination missing or another file at the time of thestat. That is the result main gives forBun.write(p, Bun.file(p)).fstatforced to an error in gdb, the 3 MiB file ends as 3,145,728 zero bytes and the promise fulfils3145728. No test can reach this branch without a second actor.What the no-op does.
slice()of the source does not change that on main, see the Honor Bun.file().slice() bounds in Bun.write #41209 section.modeoption withfchmodon the source fd.EACCESfrom the open, and root gets an empty file.do_open_file. That open can fail, make the parent directories, and try again. Fornew/../fwith no directorynew, the path names the source only after that. This case costs a secondstat./dev/fullas the source and the destination is still copied (a test pins this). An inode number of 0 is not an identity.fstatof the opened source fd on every platform. On macOS the job reused astatof the source path that it took before the open, for theclonefileattempt. The path can name another file by the time of the open.Door map. Linux, 100,000-byte file, release builds of main (9f70da0) and of this PR:
BunFileas both argumentsBunFileobjectsBun.file(p).write(Bun.file(p))sub/../fnew/../f, with no directorynew(test row, debug build)Bun.file(p).slice(10, 20)as sourcenew Response(Bun.file(p))new Response(Bun.file(p).stream()){ mode: 0o600 }on a 0444 file (as root)Bun.write(output.path, output)afterBun.build(#4097)Bun.file(p).stream()Bun.write(Bun.file(fd), Bun.file(fd))Other results that change. The source is now opened and checked before the destination. Each line has a test.
That doesn't work on folders. On Linux the destination was emptied before, or created empty. Now it is not opened.EBADF. Before, the destination was emptied or created, and it got themodeoption. Now it is not opened. A destination fd of the caller also got themodeoption, because the job closed before it recorded the error. Now it keeps its mode.do_open_filetorun_async.Cost per copy. Release builds of the earlier base (9f70da0) and of this PR before the merge with main, Linux x64. 200 copies of a 4,096-byte file, one at a time, less a run with 0 copies.
straceis not installed here, so a smallptracecounter made the counts. The write that wakes the event loop is not in the table.openatnewfstatatfstatfallocatecopy_file_rangecloseopenand theclosethat the script makes for that fd.mi_*entry points, 1,000 copies less a run with 0, two runs for each build). The difference is inside the spread of two runs of one build.bun_sys::statwould add one allocation and one free for each new path, because its error copies the path..text: 58,148,853 to 58,147,573 bytes (size -A). The job function is 1,068 bytes smaller, becausedo_open_fileis now built for two cases and not three.stat(2)on this file system (overlayfs), from a C loop of 200,000 calls: 0.40 us for a path that does not exist, 1.00 us for a path that exists.perfandvalgrindare not installed, andperf_event_paranoidis 4). NFS (no mount here): read from the code, a copy to a new path makes one moreLOOKUPwhen the client has no negative entry for the name.clonefileand pays nothing. An existing destination pays onestatof the destination and onefstatof the source.Sites with the same class of bug that this PR does not change. The class is: a copy destroys its destination before it knows that the destination is not the source.
CopyFileWindows::prepare_pathlike) opens the destination withO_TRUNCbefore the source. On main it runs only withBUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_UV_FS_COPYFILE=1, or when an fd is a pipe or a character device.uv_fs_copyfilehandles every other copy and skips a file copied onto itself.uv_fs_copyfile,on_completecuts the file to the size that the destinationBunFilecached. Thetodorow for Windows records it.Bun.file(p).stream()source. AReadableStreamdoes not useCopyFile. The file sink opens the destination withO_TRUNC, and the stream opens the source later.fs.promises.writeFile(p, fs.createReadStream(p))in Node 26.3.0 also leaves 0 bytes./dev/fd/Nas a destination path goes tofcopyfile, which ends withftruncate(dst_fd, totalCopied). With stdout redirected to a file that has content, main cuts that file to the copied size. This PR does not change it.fs.copyFileandfs.cpinsrc/runtime/node/node_fs.rs, and shellcp: shell(cp): refuse copying a source onto itself however the destination is spelled #37962 owns these sites.#38186 moves the source checks before the destination open too, with a larger change (it also covers a FIFO source on Linux and the Windows read/write loop). The two PRs conflict in
run_async. The PR that merges second keeps only what the other does not have.#47667 copies a pipe or block-device source with the read/write loop. Its changes to
copy_file.rsand the changes here do not overlap: the two merge with no conflict. On a debug build of that merge (f299d81 with ba56fce), the 22 rows here pass. The 23 tests ofbun-write-pipe-source.test.tspass too, and a directory source still leaves the destination as it was.A
slice()of the same file, and #41209.slice()window. So in this PR a sliced copy onto itself is a whole-file copy onto itself.CopyFilethe source window. After it, a window of the same file must give the window, not a no-op. The rowa slice of the file as the source gives the same result as for another destinationfails until the merged code does that.copy_file.rs. One is the size that the macOSclonefileblock reads. The other is the block after the directory check (keep both sides). The test file has one more, with the block of this PR (keep both blocks). Honor Bun.file().slice() bounds in Bun.write #41209 also conflicts with main alone: insrc/jsc/webcore_types.rs, inBlob.rsand in the import list of the test file.run_async, which runs whendo_open_filereturns with no destination open. For a window that is not the whole file, that arm must open the destination withoutO_TRUNC, copy the window to the start of the file, and cut the file to the bytes copied. I did not build or run that merge. The code that an earlier version of these notes gave for it no longer applies.Tests.
bun bd test test/js/bun/io/bun-write.test.js: the 22 new rows pass. With a release build of main, 18 fail and 4 pass. The 4 are guards: a longer destination is replaced,/dev/nullas the destination,/dev/fullon both sides, and the source fd after a failed destination open.fchmodof the no-op, the close after a failed destination open, the error recorded before the close), exactly four rows fail. The row fornew/../ffails when the compare runs only once, before the loop.bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets compile for the first commit. For the second commit I ran 4 (macOS arm64, FreeBSD x64, Windows x64, Linux musl x64), for the third 2 (macOS arm64, FreeBSD x64). After the merge with main: 12 of 12.mkdir, dead arms indo_open_file). Both are fixed.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/io/bun-write.test.js