[robobun]

Problem

• run() from node:test believes a string that a test prints. A logged line forges test:pass, test:fail, or an end that lets a script exit 0 over a failing test.
• handleStdoutLine (src/js/node/test.ts:512, from node:test: run(), expectFailure, and Node v26.3.0 skip/todo semantics #34444) searched decoded stdout for \0bun:test:run\0 and emitted any type.

Fix

• Each event is a byte frame: 0xFF, bun:test:run, length, JSON, 0xFE. The parent finds it in raw stdout bytes. No UTF-8 text write emits either byte.
• The parent accepts only test:pass and test:fail.
• A frame that another writer cut is text, and its file fails. On main that cut read as a pass in 18 of 20 runs.
• Verified: node-test-run.test.ts (76 tests, 75 fail on 1.4.3) and node-test-run-output.test.ts (also passes on node v26.3.0). Self-reviewed: 38 concerns raised, 32 addressed, 6 moved to the native follow-up.

Background

• run() starts bun test <file> per file, and the child reports on stdout. It reports only when run() set BUN_NODE_TEST_RUN_FRAMES, not under every NODE_TEST_CONTEXT.
• Considered a token (still a text search) and fd 3 or IPC (up to 74 of 300 verdicts arrive before their test's line). The first comment asks the maintainers.

Downsides

• A verdict that another writer cuts is lost. Its file fails, also when every test passed.
• process.exitCode reads 1 in a run() child after a failure. stream.republish() (bun-only, undocumented) is removed. Frame bytes that a test writes are believed, as on node.
• Builtin JS +7,984 bytes, parent decode 3.2 µs against 2.2 µs per event, one more env entry per child. Nothing new outside run().

Notes

Reach. run() arrived in #34444 and few scripts call it yet. The case for the change is runner integrity before #34515 builds the --test CLI on the same channel. The hole was raised in review on #34444 and left for a follow-up.

Repro. The script from the report: a test logs a string read from a fixture file, the next test fails, a CI script counts test:fail.

• main: forged events in 4 of 4 cases, exit 0 over a failing test in 1 of 2.
• this branch: 0 of 4 and 0 of 2. node v26.3.0: 0 and 0.

Wire. A frame is 0xFF, bun:test:run, the payload length as a big-endian u32, the UTF-8 JSON of { type, data }, 0xFE. The parent takes a frame only when the end byte stands where the length says and no 0xFF is inside. The lead is not node's 0xFF 0x0F, so a node parent does not hand one of these frames to its V8 deserializer. A payload over 64 MiB (the bound of a bun test --parallel frame) is not a frame.

Which writes can start or end a frame. I ran 27 string-write forms on bun 1.4.3 and node v26.3.0. Every write that uses the default encoding emits UTF-8 and never 0xFF or 0xFE: console.*, process.stdout.write(s), fs.writeSync(1, s), fs.writeFileSync(1, s), Bun.write(Bun.stdout, s), a child's text on inherited stdout. A lone surrogate goes out as EF BF BD. The two bytes come out only when the call names a byte encoding (latin1, utf16le, hex, base64) or passes a Buffer. The tests print the frame as a one-byte string, where ÿ and þ are the characters 0xFF and 0xFE.

The child. It builds the frame in JS and writes it with the sink of process.stdout, the queue the text marker also went through. So order against process.stdout output is as on main.

• The writer takes each builtin it calls when node:test loads in a run() child: JSON.stringify, Error.isError, TextEncoder.prototype.encode, Uint8Array.prototype.set, Array.prototype.slice, Object.setPrototypeOf, fs.writeSync, console.error. A file that removes or replaces them later still reports. So does a file that adds a toJSON to every object. Nothing that the writer throws reaches the test it reports.
• An error that the child cannot read (throw Object.create(null)), that JSON cannot hold (code: 1n), or that is over 64 MiB is replaced by a stand-in error. An expectFailure label that JSON cannot hold becomes true. A label that JSON can hold stays when only the error is replaced. The verdict still arrives. Before, the catch {} around JSON.stringify dropped the whole event.
• The child sets process.exitCode to 1 when it reports a failure that is not a todo or a skip. So a file whose process exits with no code, while the frame is still queued, is a file that failed.
• A verdict that cannot be written (the sink throws, the name has no JSON form) is named once on stderr.
• When process.stdout is not the stdio stream of fd 1 (the file replaced it, also with process.stderr), the frame goes to fd 1 with fs.writeSync. The loop waits and writes again on EAGAIN, so a large frame goes out whole. On main the replacement swallowed every verdict.

A cut frame. A frame larger than one socket chunk (36,544 bytes on this kernel) takes more than one send. A console.log of the same process, or another process or thread on the same stdout, can land between them. On main that text could finish the JSON of the result as a pass. Here a cut frame is text, the decoder counts it, and the file fails with N test result(s) of this file did not arrive: another writer of its stdout printed inside the result, or its process ended while writing it (exit code 0). The stderr of the file is the cause.

The decoder knows a frame from its first five bytes, the lead byte and bun:. A start that no whole frame follows is one lost verdict: other bytes in the tag or in the length, a length over the bound, a stream that ends inside the header. A lead byte with fewer tag bytes stays text, because a test that prints binary data emits lone 0xFF bytes.

Measurements. Release builds of the merge base and of the first push (bdaf3b6), Linux x64. Later pushes changed only builtin JS, and the builtin JS line is from the current commit. strace, perf, valgrind and bloaty are not installed in the container. Syscall counts come from a small ptrace counter. Time is wall clock, interleaved.

• Builtin JS, release bundle of the current commit: node:test 64,409 to 63,044 bytes (-1,365). The new module is 9,225 bytes. internal-for-testing +124. All modules: 2,553,893 to 2,561,877 (+7,984).
• Release binary at the first push, when the builtin JS delta was +7,297: 89,318,984 to 89,327,176 bytes (+8,192). size text +7,404, data +0, bss +0. No native code changed, no host function added.
• require("node:test") outside run(): 1,569 and 1,568 Function cells. Per test(): 19.5 cells to register and 34.5 to run on both.
• run() child, 1,000 tests: 1 write per event on both, through the sink. 140,953 and 143,690 bytes of stdout, +3 per event.
• Parent decode, 10,000 events and 10,000 lines in 64 KiB slices: 3.2 µs against 2.2 µs per event and line (medians of 40 interleaved rounds, run twice, ranges 2.0 to 3.9 and 1.4 to 2.8). 10.1 against 11.0 heap cells.
• Output before verdict, 300 tests that each console.log one line, 10 runs: 0 of 300 verdicts arrive before their test's line, on both.
• A timer in the same process prints "}},"type":"test:pass"} and 1 MiB of spaces while a 400 KB failing verdict is on its way, 20 runs. main: a pass in 18, the failure in 2. Branch: a pass in 0, the failure in 5, lost in 15.
• An inherited child prints that string every millisecond, 20 runs. main: a pass in 3, the failure in 4, lost in 13. Branch: a pass in 0, the failure in 4, lost in 16.
• A 400 KB failing verdict with console.log output around it, 150 runs: the verdict is lost in 141 on main and in 130 on the branch. Each loss fails the file on both. The branch names the cause.
• after(() => process.exit()) and a failing test with a 4 MiB error, 20 runs: main and node report the file as passed in 20. The branch reports it as failed in 20.
• A failing test behind 1 MiB of process.stdout output, then process.exit(), 20 runs. The file is reported as passed in 9 on a release build of main, in 15 on 1.4.3, and in 20 on node. On the current commit (debug build) it is passed in 0: the failure of the test arrives in 7, and the file fails in 13.
• A file of 20 passing tests that each write 1 MiB through process.stdout and call console.log: 0 false failures in 1,400 runs on the branch. main dropped one pass verdict without notice in 1 of 1,000 runs.
• A second descriptor: a child prints 300 lines on stdout and writes a verdict to fd 3 after each. The parent sees 0 to 74 verdicts before their line (20 runs).

Deliberate differences from node.

• The parent accepts two event types and checks their shape. node republishes the type a frame names (runner.js#L321).
• A frame that is not one the child writes becomes test:stdout text. node throws from its deserializer.
• Frames do not pass through process.stdout.write. A file that replaces it, or that calls process.stdout.end(), still reports its tests. On node and on main such a file fails.
• A reported failure makes the exit code of the file 1, also when the file calls process.exit() with no code after it. node reports such a file as passed.
• Text that a test left on an open line keeps its trailing spaces when a verdict closes the line. main trimmed them. A byte order mark stays in the text, as on node. main dropped the first one.

Kept as on node. A test file that starts another node:test file on its inherited stdout gets the results of that file counted as its own. I ran it on node v26.3.0: the outer file reports pass nested passes and fail nested fails, and counts 3 tests. bun 1.4.3 does the same with the text marker. If the child removed the env entry, a failing nested file would no longer reach run().

What is left.

• A test that writes a complete frame as bytes is believed, as on node. No tracker exists yet.
• A verdict that is cut is lost, as on node. The file fails and says why. A large verdict is still cut by a console.log of its own process (130 of 150 above), because the frame waits in the process.stdout queue while console.* writes fd 1 directly. The native writer below closes that.
• A cut inside the first four bytes of a frame is not counted, because a lone 0xFF is also what binary output looks like. Then only the exit code can fail the file.
• process.exit(0) drops what process.stdout has queued, as on node. A failing verdict that is still in the queue is lost with it, and the explicit 0 lets the file be reported as passed. bun test: report the run before process.exit() ends it, and exit 1 when a test failed #44465 decides the exit code of a file that calls process.exit() after a failure.
• A healthy file fails when a console.log of its own lands inside a queued pass verdict. I did not see it in 1,400 runs. main drops such a verdict without notice.
• A run() child still creates process.stdout at its first verdict, as on main. That puts O_NONBLOCK on the stdout it shares with processes it started earlier.

Not in this PR: the native writer. The branch robobun/8b035eac/node-test-run-whole-frames has a host function that writes a frame whole, as console.log writes, after it drains what process.stdout has queued (FileSink::drain_sync, 148 native lines). With it the 400 KB verdict is lost in 0 of 150 runs, and after(() => process.exit()) loses no verdict. It is a separate change for the stdio owners: it blocks on the queue that #43868 keeps asynchronous, and #37128 has a drain_sync of its own. I will open it as a second PR if that direction is wanted.

For #34515. It reads the child's stdout as text and adds child event types. After this PR it has to feed bytes to createRunOutputDecoder and add each new type, with its shape, to decodeRunEvent and to the RunEvent union.

Also fixed. rebuildError called Error(message) with the message the child sent. A test that fails with an error whose message is an object with no string form destroyed the parent's stream (TypeError: No default value). A character that the bytes before a verdict left unfinished is now closed there as U+FFFD and not joined with the bytes after the verdict.

Tests.

• node-test-run.test.ts, frames: 61 byte-level tests of the decoder. Each input is fed whole and in reads of 1, 2, 7, 17 and 64 bytes.
• node-test-run.test.ts, events: 15 runs through run() or a bun test child. One reads the child's raw bytes by hand and checks them against the decoder. One replaces the builtins that a reporter could call. That one passes on 1.4.3, and the other 75 tests of the file fail there. Debug and ASAN builds skip the error over 64 MiB.
• node-test-run-output.test.ts: four node:test tests of what a script sees when a file prints result-like text. The same file passes on node v26.3.0 (ℹ tests 4 ℹ pass 4 ℹ fail 0) and on this branch (5 pass 0 fail, the fifth runs the file on node). On 1.4.3 the four fail. The file asserts only what both runtimes do. Not asserted, because they differ today: node reports test:stdout in the chunks it reads and bun per line, node can report a result after later output, node's tests are at nesting 0 and bun's at 1 (node:test: republish run() child events at the child's nesting #39284), and node wraps the error in ERR_TEST_FAILURE.
• The fixtures of that file keep the result on node stable. node v26.3.0 decides if the file itself failed when its process exits (runner.js#L582). At that time it can have results unread behind text that followed a result (#L356). A parent that reads late then reports a file with a failed test as failed too. So the fixture that prints from a child process has only passing tests, and that child prints in one write. With a parent that is busy 150 of every 160 ms, the earlier fixture failed on node in 25 of 45 runs. The current fixtures fail in 0 of 45.
• Each run() test starts a bun test child. On a debug build one such test takes 3 to 8 s in this container, and a local bun bd test has a 5 s default. So the tests of both files pass a 60 s timeout on debug and ASAN builds only. Release builds keep the timeout of the runner. node-test.test.ts passes with --timeout 120000 (45 of 45).
• The codec is a lazily required internal module and not top-level code in test.ts, so that node:test loads nothing new outside run() and the tests can feed the decoder chosen read boundaries.

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Status

• Reproduced with the script from the report. A test logs a string that it read from a fixture file, the next test fails, and a CI script counts test:fail events from run(). On main the logged string forges an event for a test that never ran in 4 of 4 cases, and the script exits 0 over the failing test in 1 of 2. On this branch: 0 of 4 and 0 of 2. node v26.3.0: 0 and 0.
• PR: node:test run(): report child events in byte frames that printed text cannot produce #45003
• CI on 869f137a6c (build 127941): 180 of 181 jobs passed. The new tests passed on every lane that ran them. The diff is ready for review.
• The one red job is darwin any aarch64 - test-bun on the agent darwin-aarch64-26.6.1-1. It stopped before any test ran: buildkite-agent artifact download timed out after 120s. The job of that agent fails on main in the same way, for example in builds 128670, 128208 and 128071.

[robobun]

@Jarred-Sumner @cirospaciari One decision is yours before the review: the transport. The report asked for IPC, an extra fd, or a random token in the marker. This PR builds none of the three. It keeps the events in-band on stdout, as node does, and frames them in bytes. These are the options and what I measured.

1. In-band byte frames (this PR). There is one stream, so a test's output stays ahead of its verdict. Text cannot start or end a frame. Cost: a verdict that another writer of the same stdout cuts is lost, and its file fails. A frame larger than the free pipe space can also be cut by a console.log of its own process, because console.* does not go through the process.stdout queue.
2. A second descriptor alone (fd 3 or IPC). Text on stdout cannot touch the events. But two pipes have no common order. In a probe, a child prints 300 lines and writes a verdict to fd 3 after each: up to 74 of the 300 verdicts arrive before their line (20 runs). A nested test file that inherits stdout is no longer counted.
3. A second descriptor plus a small marker on stdout. The payload goes on fd 3 and a short in-band marker says where it belongs. Order holds, and no writer of stdout can cut a verdict. Costs: the parent joins two streams, a nested file on inherited stdout is not counted, and Windows needs a blocking write on the extra pipe. I did not build this one.
4. A token in the text marker. Still a search over decoded text. On main a string with no marker in it, printed by a timer into a half-written result line, turns a failure into a pass in 18 of 20 runs.

I chose 1 because it is node's shape and the smallest change that closes the report. If you prefer 2 or 3, the decoder's trust check, the two-type allowlist and the tests carry over. Only the child writer and the place where the parent reads frames move.

A second question, for the stdio side (@dylan-conway). The branch robobun/8b035eac/node-test-run-whole-frames adds a native writer that sends a frame whole, after it drains what process.stdout has queued. It removes the cut by the process's own console.log: a 400 KB failing verdict is lost in 130 of 150 runs with this PR and in 0 of 150 with that branch. It blocks on the queue that #43868 keeps asynchronous, and it overlaps FileSink::drain_sync in #37128. Is that wanted as a follow-up PR, or does verdict delivery wait for #37128?

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Walkthrough

The change adds a framed stdout protocol for child test events. The parent decodes events separately from printed output, republishes pass and fail results, and reports damaged frames. New fixtures and tests cover framing, error serialization, output ordering, and stream behavior.

Changes

Test-runner output

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Frame encoding and decoding src/js/internal/test_runner/run_frames.ts, src/js/internal-for-testing.ts, test/js/node/test_runner/fixtures/run-output/texts.mjs, test/js/node/test_runner/node-test-run.test.ts	Adds bounded stdout frames for pass and fail events, error serialization and reconstruction, and a streaming decoder that separates frames from printed text. Decoder tests cover malformed and incomplete frames, chunk boundaries, and error causes.
Child reporting in run() src/js/node/test.ts, test/js/node/test_runner/node-test-run.test.ts	run() enables framed reporting for spawned children and decodes their stdout. It republishes pass and fail events, tracks damaged frames, and reports results that cannot be written. Integration tests cover error serialization, damaged frames, and stdout changes.
Printed output and result ordering test/js/node/test_runner/fixtures/run-output/*, test/js/node/test_runner/node-test-run-output.test.ts	Fixtures and tests cover output through console, stdout, filesystem writes, and a child process. They check output ordering, listener behavior, and streamed results.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bdaf3

The new framed result reporting works for normal test files. A test file that overrides certain built-in prototype methods can still cause its results to be dropped silently, or can make the reporter throw. This is a narrow edge case with a small fix, so the change is mergeable with that follow-up.

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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.

The a0d0922 push addresses the points from the earlier review that it could: prototype methods are now captured and called with $call inside a try/catch, the writeSync fallback waits on EAGAIN, the stand-in error is tried before the expectFailure label is dropped, the sink is used only when process.stdout is the fd-1 stdio stream, and a lead byte cut inside the tag or length field now counts as damaged. Beyond the inline finding, I re-checked the decoder's pending-frame path for a chunk that both completes a buffered frame and holds a later lead byte — write() hands the joined bytes to scan, which resumes after the first frame, so it is not affected.

Extended reasoning...

The push rewrites run_frames.ts and the run() child/parent code in src/js/node/test.ts in response to the previous review round; the remaining open thread is the BUN_NODE_TEST_RUN_FRAMES inheritance by grandchildren, which the new commit does not change, and a new inline finding covers process.exit() racing a frame still queued in the stdout sink. The change touches no auth or crypto surface, but it is the integrity channel between a test child and run(), and a human maintainer should weigh the deliberate node differences the description lists.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

• Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the pushed version (6a4e1b0) and found no new bugs; since this replaces the run() child/parent wire protocol and the child writer runs inside the file under test, a maintainer look at the protocol design is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Child writer in src/js/internal/test_runner/run_frames.ts: builtins (stringify, encode, Uint8Array.set, Array.slice, writeSync, sleepSync) are now captured at load and invoked with $call; sendRunEvent is wrapped so a throw ends in verdictNotSent; exitCode is set before the write; the sink is used only when process.stdout is the fd-1 stdio stream, with an EAGAIN retry on the writeSync fallback.
• Parent decoder: u32 length is read with >>> 0 and bounded by kMaxPayloadLength before any slice; partial headers/payloads are re-scanned across chunks; a cut inside the header (>= 5 matching bytes) and at EOF now reaches onDamaged; only test:pass/test:fail with object data are republished.
• Parent-side JSON.parse / Object.setPrototypeOf / TextDecoder are not reachable by the file under test (different process), so plain calls there are fine.

Extended reasoning...

The change replaces the newline-delimited text marker protocol between node:test run() and its spawned child with a byte-framed protocol (0xFF + tag + u32 BE length + JSON + 0xFE) in a new builtin module, rewires src/js/node/test.ts to use it, removes TestsStream.republish, and adds ~900 lines of tests and fixtures. The security-relevant surface is runner integrity (a test's printed text could previously forge pass/fail verdicts) plus a child-side writer that executes in the same process as untrusted test code, so tamper-resistance of captured builtins matters. The new commit addresses the substance of the inline findings from the earlier runs (captured builtins, EAGAIN loop, exitCode-before-write, fd-1 check, label/error retry order, header-cut detection); the remaining open threads are nits or pre-existing notes. Deferring rather than approving because the diff is large, introduces a new wire format and a new builtin module in hot-path hostile-environment code, and makes deliberate Node-compat divergences that a maintainer should weigh.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

• Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

[claude]

Re-reviewed after the latest push: the points raised earlier (sink selection now checks _isStdio && fd === 1, process.exitCode ||= 1 set before the write, the EAGAIN retry in the fd-1 fallback, the 64 MiB case skipped on debug/ASAN) are addressed in the code, and this pass found no bugs. Because this introduces a new wire protocol between node:test parent and child plus a second env gate, a human look at the design is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Decoder state machine in run_frames.ts: partial headers/payloads across chunk boundaries, lead byte inside a payload, length over bound, end-byte check, text flush ordering around events — consistent with the in-process decoder cases in node-test-run.test.ts.
• Child writer: builtins captured at load, null-prototype payloads, label/error fallback order, fallback writeSync(1, frame, offset) (offset arg checked against node_fs.rs Write parsing), exit-code guard vs. bun test's own exit logic (test_command.rs only sets 1, never resets to 0).
• Parent rewiring in test.ts: died vs damagedFrames file verdict, counts and skipReporting path unchanged for the no-damage case; republish removal has no remaining callers.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a 345-line builtin module (src/js/internal/test_runner/run_frames.ts) implementing a byte-framed stdout protocol for node:test run() children, rewires src/js/node/test.ts to use it (new BUN_NODE_TEST_RUN_FRAMES env gate, deletion of the old text-marker path and stream.republish), exposes the decoder via bun:internal-for-testing, and adds ~900 lines of tests including fixtures that also run under Node. The security-relevant surface is runner integrity (a test's printed text could previously forge verdicts); the new parent accepts only test:pass/test:fail frames with validated shapes. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed paths and no third-party objections are open. Deferring rather than approving because the change is large, introduces a new hand-rolled wire format and a second env variable that a maintainer should weigh (the PR itself flags fd 3/IPC as alternatives), and because the earlier bot-raised threads were resolved by the author or this bot's own session rather than an independent reviewer.