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Problem

• The resolver keeps an EMFILE. With every descriptor free again, require("dep") throws Cannot find package 'dep' or loads dep/index.js, not its main. Bun.build fails with Cannot read directory "<dir>": EMFILE.
• Cause: the walk caches a failed open as a fact about the path (src/resolver/resolver.rs:4578), and holds one descriptor per level.
• No user reported it. A low descriptor limit found it. Node fixed the same class (module: report unreadable package.json nodejs/node#65223).

Fix

• The walk closes each directory after its step, and repeats a step that had no descriptor for a file. One free descriptor is then enough.
• An open with no descriptor (EMFILE, ENFILE) is not cached. A stat says whether the directory is there.
• A resolution that had such an error fails with it. Its answer would be a guess.
• Verified: test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (22 new tests, 21 fail on main) and 30 suites. Self-reviewed: 52 concerns, 14 answered in code, the rest in Notes.

Background

• The resolver keeps a DirInfo per directory (package.json, tsconfig.json, real path) until exit.
• open takes a descriptor before it looks at the path, so EMFILE says nothing about it.
• Considered answering as 1.4.3 does in a shortage. Reviews found sequences where it then loads another file.

Downsides

• A lookup that 1.4.3 answers right with no free descriptor can now fail with EMFILE while resolving package 'dep': 94 of 151 probes with one failed open, and none answers wrong.
• A static import that gets the failure stays failed until exit (Re-fetch a module whose previous load failed before it evaluated #40267).
• Per resolution: 25 instructions of 11,011, no allocation. Text: +4,608 bytes.

Notes

How to reproduce

No tool is necessary. Give the process 256 descriptors, open files until openSync throws EMFILE, leave 0, 1 or 2 of them free, resolve, close the files, and resolve again.

sh -c 'ulimit -n 256 && exec bun --no-install entry.js'

Bun.resolveSync of	1.4.3 and main, in the shortage	1.4.3 and main, afterwards	This PR, in the shortage	This PR, afterwards
dep, 0 free	Cannot find package 'dep'	the same	EMFILE while resolving package 'dep'	node_modules/dep/real.js
./lib/deep, 0 free	Cannot find module	the same	EMFILE while resolving './lib/deep'	lib/deep/index.js
linked (a link in a listed node_modules), 0 free	node_modules/linked	the same	the EMFILE failure	store/linked/real.js
./plain-link/link.js (a link to a file, in a listed directory), 0 free	store/plain/link.js	the same	the EMFILE failure	lib/deep/index.js
dep from nest (a nearer copy, and the copy further up in the cache), 0 free	the copy further up	the same	the EMFILE failure	nest/node_modules/dep/real.js
exports from nest (only the directory further up has it), 0 free	node_modules/exports/e.js	the same	node_modules/exports/e.js	the same
dep, 1 free	Cannot find package 'dep', or dep/index.js when node_modules is listed	the same	dep/real.js	the same
exports (a package with exports and main), 2 free	not the exports target	the same	the exports target	the same
dep from nest, 1 free	nest/node_modules/dep/index.js	the same	nest/node_modules/dep/real.js	the same
linked, 1 free	node_modules/linked	the same	store/linked/real.js	the same
only from linked-modules/sub (its node_modules is a link), 1 free	Cannot find package 'only'	the same	store/modules/only/real.js	the same
@/util through the paths of tsconfig.json, 1 free	Cannot find package '@/util'	the same	ts/src/util.ts	the same
./plain-link/x.js (a link to a directory), 1 free	plain-link/x.js	the same	store/plain/x.js	the same
./d1/d2/d3/d4/d5, 1 free	Cannot find module once, then found	found	found	found

Other runs, each a test:

• require("cached") with auto-install on, the package in the install cache, 1 free: main loads its index.js, then and afterwards. This PR loads its main.
• require("not-installed") with auto-install on, 1 free: a caught MODULE_NOT_FOUND, exit 0, and no request to the registry, on main and on this PR.
• Bun.build with every descriptor taken: Cannot read directory "<root>/src/sub": EMFILE on both. On main each later build has the same error, and Bun.resolveSync("./dir") fails. On this PR they succeed.
• Bun.build of a file below a link, and of a package, with 2 free: main cannot read the package.json, and a later build bundles dep/index.js. This PR bundles both right, then and afterwards.
• 64 links to one package with exports, 1 free, and a second thread that has a descriptor for half of the time: main answers index.js, a file that exports hides, or Cannot find package, and keeps it. On this PR every answer is the right file or the EMFILE failure, and every answer afterwards is right (200 runs of the script, with a failure in 149).

"The same" is for the same lookup again. On 1.4.3 and main a lookup that misses inside the directory drops what the cache has for it (the not-found retry of the runtime), so the record is not kept until exit in every case.

What changes

• The walk closes a directory when the step for that directory ends. Main held one descriptor for each level until the walk returned. The number of open and close calls is the same.
• When the step had no descriptor for a link, a package.json, a tsconfig.json or a listing of the parent, it runs once more with the directory closed. What the first run put in the log is taken back.
• An open of a directory that fails with EMFILE or ENFILE did not look at the path. RealFS::dir_open_error asks stat, which needs no descriptor. A path that is not there is then not found, as on main, and that is cached. When the listing of the directory is already in the cache, the step reads it and needs no open at all.
• error::short_of_descriptors counts, for each thread, the errors that still stand. The walk reads it to know that a DirInfo has a guess in it. Such a DirInfo, and each one below it in the same walk, leaves the index (BSSMap::remove_result).
• resolve_and_auto_install reads it for the whole resolution and returns ResultUnion::Failure with that error. The bundler adds Could not resolve: "<specifier>": EMFILE to the log of the importing file, with its position. The runtime throws EMFILE while resolving package 'dep' from '<importer>'. Auto-install does not start in such a resolution.
• Entry::kind and Entry::symlink do not latch a stat that had no descriptor. Entry::symlink returns None for it, and a real path is not taken from a link that was not followed. read_directory_error does not store the error. entries_at_locked keeps the listing of the earlier build. A --tsconfig-override that had no descriptor is not kept.
• A package in the install cache (dir_info_for_resolution): the directory is closed before its package.json is read. Main kept that descriptor open until exit.

Why a resolution with a guess fails

• An earlier head gave the answers of 1.4.3 in a shortage (Cannot find package, or what the guess gives), and kept them for one resolution so that each part of it saw one DirInfo.
• Two reviews with a debugger that fails chosen opens found sequences in which that head loaded a file that is not the right one, and not the one main loads. One failed open of a node_modules gave the copy of the package that is further up. One failed open of a package directory gave pkg/sub.js where exports names lib/sub-real.js. A failed open above the importing directory gave the imports and the paths of the package further up.
• The cause is the same each time: a search that takes "not read" for "not there" goes on to the next place.
• The same debugger over 23 lookups, failing each open of the first round in turn (151 runs on release builds):

	main	This PR
the right file	77	57
an error	38 (Cannot find)	94 (the errno)
another file	36	0
kept after the round	73	0

• Node 24.21 and 26.8 throw for a package.json that they cannot read, and cache nothing (module: report unreadable package.json nodejs/node#65223). Its error is ERR_INVALID_PACKAGE_CONFIG. This PR keeps MODULE_NOT_FOUND, because the code comes from the kind of the import. Say the word and it can have its own.

What stays as on main

• A directory read (getdents64) that fails part-way is cached as the whole directory (src/resolver/resolver.rs:3494, :4710 on main). A failed directory read is taken as the end of the directory in 16 loops outside pack and publish #44401 listed these loops. It was closed as not planned: "GitHub issues are for user-facing issues and a user did not run into this issue".
• ENOMEM, EIO, ESTALE and other errors of an open. An unreadable package.json (EACCES) still gives index.js.
• The package manager keeps the first failure of its start until exit (init_with_runtime, src/install/PackageManager.rs:2985), and its own reads of bun.lock, .npmrc and bunfig.toml are not counted.
• A module whose static import failed in the shortage stays failed (Re-fetch a module whose previous load failed before it evaluated #40267). This PR needs that one for a route to heal without a restart.
• A bust of the directory cache (--hot, --watch, the not-found retry, FileSystemRouter.reload()) drops a good DirInfo before the new one is read. With no free descriptor the new read fails. resolver: a busted directory listing keeps its slot and is refilled in place #36675 and Resolver: run a missed lookup once more at a fresh Generation, with DirInfo and not-found marks under Generation #40279 are open for that.
• The list of .bin directories for bun getcompletes (Resolver::bin_dirs). An open of .bin that fails is skipped, and the second run of a step leaves the lookup out. bun run does not read the list: it builds PATH from the path of each directory.
• Windows: RealFS::kind reports no error for a link that CreateFileW cannot open.
• With store_fd, which only bun getcompletes sets, a listing keeps the descriptor of its directory after the walk closed it (need_to_close_files). Main closes it when the walk returns, and this PR when the step ends.
• The race of the next section, which needs no shortage.
• bun run --filter: its walker prints Error: <errno> for a directory that it cannot read, and goes on (src/runtime/cli/filter_arg.rs:424). CLI: fixes for bun run, flags, bunfig.toml, .env, --filter, bun init and completions #46007 rewrites that file.

A crash that main has

• Entry::symlink reads the real path of an entry without the lock of the entry (src/resolver/fs.rs). finalize_result can store one at that moment (set_cache_symlink). A reader that gets the old pointer and the new length crashes with panic: Segmentation fault at address 0x2.
• It needs no shortage. via is a link to real, real/d has the files f_0.js to f_5999.js, and 4 Workers resolve each file at the same time:

// main.js
const next = new Int32Array(new SharedArrayBuffer(4));
const workers = Array.from({ length: 4 }, () => new Worker(import.meta.dir + "/worker.js"));
await Promise.all(
  workers.map(worker => {
    worker.postMessage(next);
    return new Promise(resolve => (worker.onmessage = resolve));
  }),
);
process.exit(0);

// worker.js
onmessage = ({ data: next }) => {
  for (let i; (i = Atomics.load(next, 0)) < 6000; Atomics.compareExchange(next, 0, i, i + 1))
    Bun.resolveSync(import.meta.dir + "/via/d/f_" + i + ".js", import.meta.dir);
  postMessage("done");
};

• Release builds, 1,000 runs of this script each: main 179664ea89f crashes in 175, and this PR in 173. A batch of 100 runs has from 0 to 47 crashes.
• The two loads and the two stores are the same instructions in both builds. This PR adds no read and no write of that field, and it does not fix the race.

Known gaps

• ENFILE has no test. It is in one match arm with EMFILE. A test needs strace or a seccomp filter.
• No test runs the dev server or --hot in a shortage. By hand, --hot recovers on the next reload, where main keeps the wrong answer.
• The rows of the table that pass with one free descriptor pin an exact budget. A change that adds one open to a cold lookup fails them.
• A walk that ends with a guess leaves its slot (104 bytes for each level) and what it parsed allocated, each time, while the shortage lasts. Each removal from the DirInfo index does that: on main a relative lookup that misses adds 1.1 KB of RSS for each call.
• Several threads that resolve one link have no test: the window is a matter of timing. A stress with 6 Workers that resolve 1,500 links to files, 3 Workers that open and close a file, and 1 free descriptor: 9b5134d89b1, which read need_stat a second time, keeps a wrong real path in 19 of 40 runs. This head: 0 of 300. Main: 19 of 20.
• After a build that could not read a directory again, a lookup at run time is answered from the listing of the earlier build, until a build reads it again.

With other open pull requests

• fix(resolve): match Node 24 package configuration validation #44512 gives an unreadable package.json its own error and keeps it cached. The call of short_of_descriptors::note is the first statement of that arm, so the merge conflicts there instead of taking one of the two rules in silence.
• resolver: keep walking past an ancestor that does not open #44674 changes the same arm of the walk for a user issue (Android/Termux: CouldntReadCurrentDirectory on shared storage when an ancestor returns ENOENT (patch included) #44565). Land it first.
• Remember what the resolver answered for a repeated resolution #43624 remembers what the resolver answered. A failure is not an answer to remember.
• resolver: keep cached DirEntry when a stale-generation refresh fails #36874 keeps a cached listing when a refresh fails, for every errno: the same two places in lib.rs.
• bun_alloc: BSS stores take &self, and string stores lose their limit of 8,396,800 names #46175 removes dir_cache_mut(), and run: report a package.json that does not parse instead of using a parent's scripts #45113 and resolver: reuse interned package.json/tsconfig parses across dir-cache busts #36928 change PackageJSON::parse: the second to land is adapted.
• CLI: fixes for bun run, flags, bunfig.toml, .env, --filter, bun init and completions #46007 adds tests at the end of resolve.test.ts.

Not run

• Windows (no ulimit). macOS ran in CI only.
• On musl as root, bun raises its descriptor limit to 163,840 at startup (RealFS::adjust_ulimit), so the new tests are skipped there.
• bun run <script>, bun run <bin> and bun getcompletes have no test. By hand, in a directory 7 levels deep: bun run <bin> works from ulimit -n 4 (main: from 11). bun run <script> works from 11, where sh starts (main: Script not found at 11). bun getcompletes lists each bin from 5 (main: from 12).

Cost

Release builds of main 179664ea89f and of that commit with this diff, measured in one session. Instructions are counted in user mode with gdb, for one call.

	main	This PR
Text of bun (data and bss are equal)	107,557,134 bytes	107,561,742 bytes
Warm Bun.resolveSync("dep")	10,986	11,011
Warm Bun.resolveSync("./src/x")	5,177	5,201
A hit in the DirInfo cache (dir_info_cached_maybe_log)	211	211
First read of a package directory (the walk)	63,890	63,953
First listing of a directory for a file	65,477	65,477
A relative path that is not there	24,162	24,272
A package that is not there	27,446	27,573

• A resolution reads the count of its thread two times. A step of the walk does the same. Nothing is allocated.
• A Resolver has one more u32. A thread has one more thread-local cell.
• The walk makes the same open and close calls as on main. Each close now comes before the next open. One stat follows an open that fails with EMFILE.

Suites

• test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts: 130 pass, 3 skip, on the debug build with ASAN and on a release build. Of the 22 new tests, 21 fail on main and on 1.4.3. The other one is for a package that only a directory further up has: it must stay right with no descriptor.
• The 22 new tests on a release build: 160 runs with 1, 4 and 12 CPUs, no failure.
• Also pass on a release build: test/cli/run/env.test.ts, no-envfile.test.ts, run-process-env.test.ts, run-autoinstall.test.ts, autoinstall-cached-manifest.test.ts, run-autoinstall-abs-path.test.ts, filter-workspace.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-install-env-file.test.ts, dt-unknown-readdir.test.ts, test/cli/watch/watch.test.ts, test/cli/test/bun-test.test.ts, test/bundler/esbuild/packagejson.test.ts, tsconfig.test.ts, default.test.ts, test/bundler/bundler_edgecase.test.ts, cli.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/filesystem_router.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts, test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts, esm.test.ts, html.test.ts, test/bake/framework-router.test.ts, and in test/js/bun/resolve/: import-meta.test.js, resolve-error.test.ts, build-error.test.ts, import-custom-condition.test.ts, bun-main-entry-point.test.ts, resolver-permission-denied-ancestor.test.ts (as a user that is not root), and test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts and test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts.
• Three of these files have a test that can fail on a loaded machine, without this PR too. bun-serve-html.test.ts: "rebuild that fails to parse an import, and a request for a failed route" failed in 1 of 26 runs here (idle machine: 0 of 25, and 0 of 25 on main), and CI marks it as flaky in 20 of 120 recent builds of other branches. hot.test.ts: "does not take a promise of the program's, pending, for that of the entry point". bun-build-api.test.ts: the bytecode tests, which time out at 5 s.

Earlier shapes of this pull request

• The first commits cached no listing for a directory whose read failed, and asked the file system by name. A review found runs that work on 1.4.3 and fail with it. Those commits are in the history, up to 8858b0d78d.
• A second shape answered "not found" for a directory that opened but whose package.json did not. In the default install mode that exits the process where 1.4.3 does not.
• A third shape gave the answers of 1.4.3 in a shortage. See "Why a resolution with a guess fails". Neither was pushed.

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Reproduced on 1.4.3 and on release and debug builds of main, linux-x64.

• Give the process 256 descriptors: sh -c 'ulimit -n 256 && exec bun --no-install entry.js'.
• The script opens files until openSync throws EMFILE, leaves 0 or 1 of them free, resolves dep, closes the files, and resolves again.
• 1.4.3 and main, 0 free: Cannot find package 'dep', in the shortage and afterwards.
• 1.4.3 and main, 1 free: node_modules/dep/index.js in place of the main of its package.json, in the shortage and afterwards.
• This pull request, 1 free: the main, both times. 0 free: EMFILE while resolving package 'dep' in the shortage, and the main afterwards.

The tests of "when the process is short of descriptors" in test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts are this reproduction for Bun.resolveSync, require, import and Bun.build. 21 of the 22 fail on main.

CI

• e1454435b4f is the last change to the code. Build 132423 passed on every lane.
• 1089bb5974 is that code with main 8a0e49eedb merged in. Build 133477 passed 179 jobs: Linux (glibc, musl, ASAN), Windows and macOS aarch64.
• The 2 macOS x64 test jobs of that build did not start. No agent takes them: they expire after one hour and go back in the queue. The same is true for each other branch at this time (the last 40 builds).
• No job failed in a test or a file that this pull request changes.

Pull request: #44540

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Resolver Descriptor-Exhaustion Handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Descriptor error classification and filesystem handling src/resolver/error.rs, src/resolver/fs.rs, src/resolver/lib.rs, src/resolver/package_json.rs	Descriptor-exhaustion errors are tracked per thread. Entry stat and symlink handling can retry after descriptor exhaustion. Directory-open errors are classified, and directory-read and package metadata errors are recorded.
Resolution-scoped error handling src/resolver/resolver.rs	Resolution scopes track descriptor exhaustion and return the recorded error when no other failure takes precedence. Symlink path inference, auto-install lookup, and tsconfig caching account for that state.
Directory traversal and metadata recovery src/bun_alloc/lib.rs, src/resolver/resolver.rs	Directory traversal can retry metadata population after closing held descriptors. The resolver removes partial cache results and retains stale listings when a refresh fails due to descriptor exhaustion.
Resolve error reporting and regression coverage src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts	Bundling logs resolver system errors at the import location. Tests cover resolution and builds with exhausted or limited descriptors, including concurrent descriptor use.

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Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review e1454

Under tight descriptor limits, the resolver can keep a closed directory descriptor in its cache and reuse it on a later lookup, which can cause spurious errors or reads from the wrong file. The remaining open items are minor. Fix the cached-descriptor handling before merging.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/resolver/resolver.rs:
- Line 6326: Update the bin-folder discovery guarded by
self.care_about_bin_folder and fd.is_valid() to preserve the descriptor-shortage
cause when fd is invalid, recording it only when the cause is a shortage; also
record descriptor shortages from both node_modules/.bin and .bin open_dir_z
calls without changing other invalid-descriptor paths.

Review comments at @test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts:
- Around line 2382-2394: Update `runWithFewDescriptors` to throw an error
containing the exit code and stderr when the subprocess exits unsuccessfully,
and include stdout and stderr if successful output cannot be parsed as JSON.
Return parsed stdout and exitCode without stderr, and remove the `stderr`
expectation from each of its seven callers so passing runs do not require stderr
to be empty.

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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, two more candidates were examined and ruled out as not regressions of this change: the node_modules/.bin opens at src/resolver/resolver.rs:6337 and :6383 still swallow EMFILE (so bun run can miss .bin on PATH after a shortage) — pre-existing on the base branch and outside the resolution result; and the new Sys(_) arm at src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs:1921 can print a second "Could not resolve" line next to the auto-install error for one unreadable directory — a cosmetic duplicate, not a lost error.

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The diff adds a thread-local EMFILE/ENFILE counter in src/resolver/error.rs, uncached open failures and a stat fallback in lib.rs/fs.rs, a restructured directory-walk retry with dir-cache eviction in resolver.rs, a bundler log arm, and 559 lines of new tests; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Three confirmed findings are posted inline, so this run does not approve; the body only records the two further candidates checked and ruled out this run, which were not raised in earlier reviews.

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

• 🟣 src/resolver/resolver.rs — pre-existing: a process that first starts auto-install while short of descriptors keeps that failure for its whole life, where the walk itself now recovers. The gate at src/resolver/resolver.rs:2945 only skips init when a shortage was already noted; the init that get_package_manager_for runs at :2960 does its own opens (top-level listing, package.json, bunfig.toml, bun.lock) and PackageManager.rs:3002-3012 makes any Err sticky in ONCE/INIT_ERROR. Fix: an EMFILE/ENFILE inside init must not be kept: note() it and leave the Once un-run (or clear INIT_ERROR for those errnos) so the next resolution retries, and do not fall back to an empty lockfile when bun.lock could not be opened.

  Why this was flagged

  Trigger: a runtime process with auto-install on (importer has no node_modules) whose first require() of an uninstalled package happens while one or two descriptors short. The walk now succeeds with one free descriptor, so short_of_descriptors::since(self.short_mark) at src/resolver/resolver.rs:2945 is None and get_package_manager_for runs at :2960. It calls init_with_runtime (src/install/PackageManager.rs:2985-3012), a std::sync::Once whose Err is stored in INIT_ERROR and returned on every later call. Inside init_with_runtime_once a package.json open that fails with EMFILE passes is_unreadable_file (src/sys/Error.rs:142, _ => cfg!(unix)), so find_project sets unreadable at PackageManager.rs:2317 and init returns Err(UnreadableConfig) at :3137-3143. Afterwards every auto-install resolution in the process gets the sticky error at resolver.rs:2963-3006, even once all descriptors are free. The base branch behaves the same; this PR's purpose (nothing kept from an EMFILE) leaves this site uncovered.

  Verification: pre-existing — the base branch latches the same init failure by the same route; this PR fixes the descriptor-shortage class inside the resolver walk but leaves the auto-install init latching EMFILE for the life of the process. At src/install/PackageManager.rs:3002-3012 any Err from the one-time body is returned to every later caller forever.

[robobun]

f4f8d3bd17b and e1454435b4f answer the reviews of 9b5134d89b1.

• The real path of a link that another thread followed in the meantime: fixed. Entry::symlink returns None when its own stat had no descriptor, and the callers decide from that value. A stress shows the old window in 19 of 40 runs, and none in 300 now.
• The test helper: a child that does not print JSON now fails the assertion with its stdout, stderr and exit code.
• The .bin block, and the slots of a walk with a guess: no change. Each thread has the reason and the numbers.
• The start of the package manager (init_with_runtime) keeps its first error until exit. It is in src/install, it does so on main for every error, and the PR body lists it under "What stays as on main". This PR does not change it.

A stress with no shortage meets a crash that main has: 4 Workers resolve the same files below a linked directory, and Entry::symlink reads the real path of an entry without the lock of the entry while set_cache_symlink stores one. The PR body has the script under "A crash that main has". Main crashes in 175 of 1,000 runs and this PR in 173. This PR does not fix it.

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Major · Stop caching directory descriptors that this walk closes. · resolver.rs:4506-4508

src/resolver/resolver.rs:4506-4508
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Stop caching directory descriptors that this walk closes.

With store_fd set and need_to_close_files() true, close_held_dirs closes each walk-owned directory descriptor (resolver.rs:4506-4508). The same descriptor is stored in new_entry.fd (resolver.rs:4802) and is not cleared. The cached listing then keeps a closed descriptor.

Later lookups read that stored value. A current-generation cache hit returns the cached entry unchanged (lib.rs:1135-1140). The walk seeds queue entries from entries.fd (resolver.rs:4431, 4468) and reuses a valid queue_top.fd as open_dir (resolver.rs:4548). Metadata reads also use entry.fd (lib.rs:1905). These reads can fail with EBADF, or they can act on a descriptor that was reused for another file.

The retry path now also calls close_held_dirs in the middle of a walk. Queue entries that were seeded earlier in the same walk can therefore hold closed descriptors as well.

Clear each cached DirEntry.fd when its descriptor is closed. Alternatively, do not store a walk-owned descriptor that close_held_dirs will close.

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Review comment at @src/resolver/resolver.rs around lines 4506 - 4508:
Update close_held_dirs and the new_entry.fd assignment so walk-owned directory
descriptors are not retained after closure: clear the corresponding cached
DirEntry.fd when closing, or avoid storing descriptors that this walk will
close. Ensure entries reused by the walk cannot keep a closed descriptor.

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Review comments at @src/resolver/resolver.rs:
- Around line 4506-4508: Update close_held_dirs and the new_entry.fd assignment
so walk-owned directory descriptors are not retained after closure: clear the
corresponding cached DirEntry.fd when closing, or avoid storing descriptors that
this walk will close. Ensure entries reused by the walk cannot keep a closed
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[robobun]

@coderabbitai On "Stop caching directory descriptors that this walk closes": no change. Main closes these descriptors under the same condition, and its listings keep them the same way.

• On main the walk closes what it opened when it returns, if !store_fd || need_to_close_files() (src/resolver/resolver.rs:4452 on main). The listing keeps new_entry.fd (:4728 on main), and nothing clears it. close_held_dirs has the same condition. It runs at the end of each step, and no later step reads the descriptor of an earlier one.
• close_held_dirs closes only what this walk opened (open_dirs). A queue entry that got its descriptor from a cached listing is not in that list (resolver.rs:4677). So the second run of a step closes nothing that a later step uses.
• store_fd is true in one place: RunCommand::completions, for bun getcompletes (src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:3727). Each of the 5 callers of configure_env_for_run passes store_root_fd: false.
• bun getcompletes b with ulimit -n from 5 to 254 is this case (need_to_close_files() is true up to 254). This PR lists each bin there, and main needs 12.

A listing that outlives its descriptor is a defect of store_fd that main has. The PR body now lists it under "What stays as on main".

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@coderabbitai Please check the finding "Stop caching directory descriptors that this walk closes" against the reply above one more time: #44540 (comment)

In short: main closes the same descriptors under the same condition when the walk returns (src/resolver/resolver.rs:4452 on main), its listings keep them the same way (:4728 on main), and only bun getcompletes sets store_fd.

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[robobun]

Merged main (8a0e49e) into this branch.

• One conflict, in src/resolver/resolver.rs. This PR splits resolve into a wrapper and resolve_one. Main (98a4365, Fix use-after-free of BuildMessage.position.file: real lifetimes for Source, Path, ImportRecord and resolve results #46834) gave resolve the lifetime 'r (import_path: &'r [u8], result ResultUnion<'r>) and deleted the unsafe 'static view of import_path.
• The resolution: the wrapper returns ResultUnion<'r>, and resolve_one<'r> takes import_path: &'r [u8] and returns ResultUnion<'r>. The unsafe view is not kept.
• cargo check --workspace passes on the merged tree (Linux x64).
• Test, on a local debug build that contains this merge and the main merges of six other open PRs: test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (130 pass, 3 skip, 0 fail).

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