output: report a result that did not reach stdout by robobun · Pull Request #45684 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-10-17T05:02:18Z

Supersedes #39531, which adopts #38807 by @alii. Stacked on #47124: the first commit here is that PR.

Decision needed (Notes): exit 1 when stdout does not take a printed result? Checked once in Output, as here, or at each site, as in #45800?

Problem

bun build big.js > out.js on a full disk leaves a cut file and exits 0. --outfile exits 1.
Four forms exit 1 in 1.3.13 and 0 on main. Output drops the errno (fd_write_all_quiet, src/sys/lib.rs).

Fix

The write loop of Output keeps the errno of the first failed stdout write. A form that exists to print calls Output::stdout_is_the_result(). Global::exit then prints error: Cannot write standard output: ENOSPC: No space left on device and exits 1.
Declared: listings, a bundle on stdout, dry runs. Not declared: help, a log of work, script output.
| head stays quiet: the gate asks bun_sys::reader_left (lint, fmt, check, completions: a reader that left a socket is not a failed write #47124).
Verified: test/cli/bun.test.ts, 45 of 78 new tests fail on 1.4.3. Self-reviewed: 23 concerns raised, 21 addressed.

Background

Output::print and pretty! end in one write loop in bun_sys. A command exits through Global::exit.
Considered: every failed write fails (bun publish exits 1 after the PUT), the fallible writer of output: report a failed write to stdout instead of claiming success #39531, a check at each print.

Downsides

No user asked for it. About 50 forms get a new exit code. Node and npm exit 0 there.
A new print-only command is silent until it declares. The --parallel relay keeps exit 0.
Size: +1,792 bytes of text. A write that succeeds runs no more instructions.

Notes

The decision.

The policy. A form that exists to print exits 1 when a file, a device or a terminal does not take what it prints. Four forms did that in 1.3.13 (table below). For every other form it is new. REVIEW.md has the rule ("Never swallow a failure or signal success on one"), and bun check: 1.4x to 7.8x faster on large projects. Fixes for bun check, bun lint and bun fmt #45800 applied it to bun lint, bun fmt and bun check ("If standard output can't be written, that's an error with exit code 2"). I found no user report of a lost result, and no human has said yes for the other commands.
The mechanism. bun check: 1.4x to 7.8x faster on large projects. Fixes for bun check, bun lint and bun fmt #45800 holds the whole output in memory and checks one write_all_to_stdio call. bun audit, pm view, pm diff, why and outdated print at 14 to 37 sites each and have several exits. A latch in the sink and one gate in Global::exit cover them with one line per form.

If the answer to 1 is no: the four regressed forms can get a checked write at their three sites (build_command.rs, and two in package_manager_command.rs), and this PR and output: report a failed write to stdout instead of claiming success #39531 close.
lint, fmt, check, completions: a reader that left a socket is not a failed write #47124 is useful in both cases.
A second question of the same kind is the relay (under "Not declared").

The first commit is #47124 (lint, fmt, check, completions: a reader that left a socket is not a failed write). It has the rule bun_sys::reader_left, the fix for the macOS CI failures of the hang-up tests, and its own tests. When it merges, this PR holds one commit.

On Linux a reader that closes gives ECONNRESET to a write that sent nothing yet. Under gdb it was the first failed write of a 460 KB bun pm ls, before 10,798 failures with EPIPE. So the gate needs the same rule.

The rule for "the reader left" (bun_sys::reader_left, from #47124): stdout is a pipe or a socket, and the errno is EPIPE, ECONNRESET or, on macOS, ENOTCONN.

stdout	errno	result
pipe or socket, the reader is gone	EPIPE, ECONNRESET, ENOTCONN (macOS)	quiet
the read end of a FIFO	EBADF	reported (a test)
file, `/dev/full`, terminal	any	reported
a network share that went away (Windows)	ECONNRESET	reported (from the errno table, not run)

Declared (a failed write exits 1). A form that exists to print:

a bundle on stdout: bun build without --outdir and --outfile (also --no-bundle)
bun --version, --revision, bun <lockfile> (the yarn.lock text, and --hash), bun <file>.md, bun getcompletes, bun completions when it prints the script
bun outdated, bun audit, bun why, bun info
bun pm bin, cache, hash, hash-string, hash-print, ls, licenses, untrusted, default-trusted, diff, whoami, view, why, scan, pkg get
bun pm pack --quiet and --silent: stdout is the name of the tarball and nothing else. Exit 1 comes after the tarball is written.
every dry run of a package manager command (--dry-run, dryRun in bunfig.toml, prune --check, dedupe --check). PackageManager::init declares it for every command except bun pm. bun pm declares in its dispatcher, where it knows that it does not print its usage. A dry run of bun pm pack still runs the lifecycle scripts before it exits 1.

Not declared (exit code as before).

Help and usage text: --help of every command, bun run without a script (usage and the script list), and bun pm, bun pm version and bun pm pkg without an argument, also in a dry run.
A log of work that bun did: bun install, add, remove, update, link, publish, bun pm pack without --quiet, bun pm version <increment>, pm cache rm, pm trust, audit fix, bun build --outdir, --outfile and --compile, bun init, bun create.
A process that runs a script: bun run, bun <file>, bun -e, bun -p, bun test, bun repl. As in Node, a console.log that fails is not an exit code.
The relay of bun run --parallel, --sequential, --filter and --workspaces. Plain bun run a > /dev/full exits 1, because the echo of the script fails. Under the relay the same loss is silent. output: report a failed write to stdout instead of claiming success #38807 chose that ("printing a child's output is best-effort, finishing it is not"). To turn it on: one call in multi_run.rs, and filter_run.rs has to write through Output::writer().
bun lint, bun fmt and bun check keep their own check with exit code 2 (bun check: 1.4x to 7.8x faster on large projects. Fixes for bun check, bun lint and bun fmt #45800), because 1 means findings there. For them this PR changes one thing: the message comes from Output::err_stdout_write_failed (same text).

Exit codes I ran (stdout on /dev/full):

Form	1.3.13	main `ea6a2c7`	this PR
`bun build` of a 300 KB bundle	1 (`WriteFailed`)	0	1
`bun pm hash`, `pm hash-print`, `bun bun.lockb --hash`	1 (`WriteFailed`)	0	1
`bun --version`, `bun bun.lockb`	0	0	1
`SHELL=/bin/bash bun completions`	not run	1 (`An internal error occurred (ENOSPC)`)	1

With ulimit -f 16, bun build big.js > out.js exits 0 on main and leaves 16,384 bytes of a 300 KB bundle. --outfile and --outdir exit 1 on main and on 1.3.13. Stdout is the one output of three that lost its check.
Other tools on /dev/full: node -p 1, npm ls and npm pkg get version exit 0. git --version, ls, cat and python3 -c 'print(1)' fail.

Measured (release builds of main ea6a2c7 and of this change on top of it, same build directory, Linux x64. The rebases since, the last one onto 8d5672c, did not touch these functions. The usage check in the bun pm dispatcher, about ten lines, and the declaration of bun outdated came after the measurement):

size: +1,792 bytes of text (107,095,893 to 107,097,685), +0 data, +0 bss (size).
a write that succeeds, instructions in the sink (objdump): buffered print 30 and 30, unbuffered write 27 and 26, flush with data 21 and 20. adapter_write_all 216 B to 233 B, adapter_flush 91 B to 75 B. A failed write is one call to a cold function.
exit: the gate is 3 instructions (load, test, branch). A declaration is 2 instructions, at 18 call sites.
working stdout (a pipe): the counts of write, fstat and poll are equal for --version, pm pkg get, build, pm ls and pm hash (gdb catch syscall).
failed stdout in a declared form: one more write (the message on fd 2). The fstat for the kind of the descriptor runs only for the three hang-up errnos.
reach: 60 forms x {ENOSPC on /dev/full, EBADF on a read-only file, EBADF on the read end of a FIFO, EPIPE on a closed pipe, a socket reader that hangs up}: 300 of 300 cells as expected (105 report, 195 exit 0 in silence). main: 195 of 300.
a socket reader that hangs up on a 460 KB bun pm ls, at once and after 30 ms: exit 0 and no message in 200 of 200 runs.
bun outdated --cafile=/nonexistent, where the HTTP thread ends the process: the same two lines on stderr in 300 of 300 runs.

Tests. test/cli/bun.test.ts: one block of 78 tests, and 3 tests that bun completions prints each script whole.

45 of the 78 fail on a release build of main and on 1.4.3-canary 367d939: one per declared form with a read-only descriptor as stdout (unwritableFd() in test/harness.ts, EBADF on every platform), ENOSPC on /dev/full (Linux), a bundle that ulimit -f cuts (POSIX), the read end of a FIFO (POSIX), and the report from the HTTP thread.
33 guards pass before and after: a reader that hangs up, a failed write to stderr, script output (-e, -p, alert, bun test, bun repl), fifteen rows of help and usage text, and the forms that do work (install, audit fix, pm pack, pm version patch, pm cache rm, pm trust --all, build --outdir, the relay).
One build with five mutations failed exactly seven tests: bun audit declares before its fix branch (audit fix), cache is in the table of bun pm (pm cache rm), the rule is the kind of descriptor alone (the FIFO), every descriptor records (the stderr test), bun outdated declares before it parses (three help rows).
Run on the debug build after the rebase onto 8d5672c: test/cli/bun.test.ts (132 pass) and bun run rust:clippy.
Run on the debug build before that rebase, with the same change to src/: bun-pm, bun-pm-pkg, bun-pm-version, bun-pm-scan, bun-pack, bun-audit, bun-prune, bun-lockb, multi-run, filter-workspace, bundler/cli, markdown-entrypoint, console-write, process-stdio, 02977, 05828, the stdout and hang-up tests of check.test.ts, format.test.ts and lint.test.ts, bun-pm-why, bun-pm-diff, bun-pm-licenses, bun-pm-fetch, bun-pm-cache-pack, bun-info, bun-dedupe, bunx, console-log.
Not run here: macOS and Windows. cargo check passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc on bun_core and bun_sys.

Against #39531 and #38807.

Kept: the goal, and the policy that a print in the middle of work is best-effort and the work always finishes.
Not needed here: the audit of every ? on a print. The writers of Output still return Ok(()).
Different: bun build x | head stays exit 0 (a fallible writer makes it exit 1 with WriteFailed, as 1.3.13 does). The message names the errno. Forms that print with Output::print, println or pretty! are covered.
Removed: the arm Err(WriteFailed) => return Ok(()) of the yarn.lock printer in lockfile.rs. It cannot fire, because the writer does not fail.

Self-review. The first review (42 concerns, 40 addressed) replaced "every failed write fails the command" with the declaration. The second one (23 concerns, 21 addressed) led to this version: one reader_left rule for the gate and for bun lint, the dry runs and four more listings, help of bun outdated at exit 0, no OnWriteError type (the sink records by descriptor), a report that waits for a second thread in the gate (Once), and the guards for forms next to a declaration. Not taken:

A test that reads bun --help and fails for a command that is on neither list. It enforces a policy that no maintainer has approved yet.
A Rust unit test of reader_left. The unit tests of bun_sys do not link outside the full build, and CI does not run them. The FIFO test and the hang-up tests cover the rule.

Limits.

NFS and FUSE can report a full disk at close, not at write. Nothing closes fd 1, so that case still exits 0.
bun build --watch does not exit through Global::exit.
A terminal that went away (EIO) counts as a failed write for a declared form.
In a declared form every failed write to fd 1 counts, also a console.log of a macro in bun build (from the code, not run).
The intended end state is a stdout writer whose write_all and print return (). That is a follow-up.

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

robobun · 2026-10-17T05:02:31Z

^{Updated 11:23 PM PT - Oct 27th, 2026}

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robobun · 2026-10-17T05:02:47Z

Status: reworked after a second self-review and rebased onto main. It needs a maintainer's decision before review (the two questions at the top of the description).

Reproduced on Linux with stdout on /dev/full:

echo 'console.log("the bundle")' > entry.js
bun build entry.js > /dev/full; echo $?   # main: 0 and no message. This PR: 1 and "error: Cannot write standard output: ENOSPC: No space left on device".
bun pm hash > /dev/full; echo $?          # the same. 1.3.13 exits 1 with WriteFailed.
bun install --dry-run > /dev/full; echo $? # the same: a dry run is a result. bun install stays at 0.

The tests are in test/cli/bun.test.ts ("a result that does not reach stdout"). 45 of the 78 fail on main and on 1.4.3-canary 367d939. The other 33 are guards.

The first commit is #47124, a fix by itself: since #45800 the hang-up tests of bun fmt and bun lint fail now and then on macOS with ENOTCONN: Socket is not connected and pass on the retry. This pull request is stacked on it.

CI: the change is green where CI ran it. The red status comes from the CI machines, not from a test of this change.

Build 134097 (c444c86): test/cli/bun.test.ts passes on every platform, including macOS aarch64 and x64 (129 pass, 0 fail). The one red job is a timeout of bun install for the test dependencies on one macOS agent, before any test started.
Build 134215 (cf596bf, an empty commit to run CI again): 43 Linux x64 jobs were cancelled before they started, because CI could not create agents (EC2 CapacityLimitExceeded). Builds 134216 and 134219 of the same minutes lost jobs in the same way. The two macOS x64 test jobs expired with no agent. Every other job that ran passed, except the soft test-aot-drawn jobs, which are also red on main. The tests that failed once passed on the retry.

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src/runtime/cli/lint_command.rs
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Stdout write errors are recorded and considered during exit handling. CLI commands mark when stdout carries their result. Pipe and socket reader termination is distinguished from other write failures, with tests covering failure and successful-output paths.

Changes

Stdout failure tracking and exit handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record stdout errors and adjust exit status `src/bun_core/Global.rs`, `src/bun_core/lib.rs`, `src/bun_core/output.rs`, `src/sys/lib.rs`	Output adapters record stdout write errors. The output sink identifies pipe and socket reader termination. Exit handling reports applicable failures and adjusts the exit code.
Mark result-producing output `src/runtime/cli/...`, `src/install/PackageManager.rs`, `src/install/lockfile.rs`	CLI and package-manager output paths mark stdout as the command result. Completion output ignores write errors and exits with status 0. The lint command reports errors when the reader has not disconnected.
Test stdout write outcomes `test/cli/bun.test.ts`, `test/harness.ts`	Tests cover stdout write failures, pipe closure, and commands that remain successful when stdout is unwritable. The harness adds a read-only descriptor for failure tests.

Possibly related issues

node:net, node:tls: socket teardown events that still differ from Node (spurious 'end', ERR_SOCKET_CLOSED in place of the real error) #43381: The issue concerns socket writes after teardown, including EPIPE and ECONNRESET; this change handles pipe and socket reader-disconnect errors.

Possibly related PRs

oven-sh/bun#47124: It changes lint, formatting, checking, and completions to classify reader-disconnect errors and uses the same reader_left interface.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c444c

The previously reported lint blocker is fixed, and no remaining issue established by this review prevents merging after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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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 finding, I also checked: the six adapter construction sites (only the two stdout adapters in Source record; stderr and both ConsoleObject writers stay Ignore, so script console.log exit codes are unchanged); the Global::exit path (the errno is read after the final flush, the report is gated once by a seq_cst swap, and the pipe/socket exemption is decided from fstat rather than an errno list); and the bun completions rewrite, where a non-EPIPE write failure into a pipe is now silent exit 0 rather than nonzero — consistent with the stated reader-gone rule, not a regression on a regular file.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a process-wide record of the first failed stdout write in src/sys/lib.rs and src/bun_core/output.rs, and makes Global::exit report it and exit 1 for commands that declare their stdout as the result; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. A verified finding on the declaration list is posted inline, so approval is not appropriate; the note above records what else was examined.

claude

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

The declaration gaps raised on the previous revision (bun <lockfile> --hash, pm whoami, pm view/bun info, bun outdated) are now covered by the new commits. Beyond the inline nit, I also checked the install_completions EPIPE special-case removal: EPIPE only arises on a pipe or socket, which the exit-time is_pipe_or_socket check exempts, so a closed-pipe reader still exits 0; and the two ConsoleObject adapters use Ignore, so console.log failures stay out of the exit code as described. Given the process-wide atomics in Global::exit and the per-command declaration policy, a human look is still worthwhile.

Extended reasoning...

The three new commits extend the stdout-write-error reporting to the remaining print-only forms, add OnWriteError to the sink adapter API, make fd_write_all_quiet generic over a record flag with an Ok(0) to EIO mapping, and add is_pipe_or_socket plus the exit-time report in Global::exit. No security-sensitive surface is touched. All six adapt_to_new_api construction sites name a policy, and the ruled-out items above were checked against the code rather than the description. The change is not approvable without a human because it alters exit-code semantics across many CLI commands through process-global state.

claude

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

The sibling sites raised on the earlier push are now covered: bun <lockfile> --hash, pm whoami and pm view/bun info declare explicitly, and bun outdated is declared through the cli.dry_run = true it forces at src/install/PackageManager/CommandLineArguments.rs:1604, which PackageManager::init turns into the declaration (that path is implicit, worth a glance from a maintainer). Beyond the inline nit, I also checked that File::kind() on Windows maps FILE_TYPE_PIPE to NamedPipe so the reader-left exemption covers socket pairs there, and that Source::configure_thread_no_js() is idempotent, so the Once block in Global::exit is safe on the main thread.

Extended reasoning...

The push since the last review added Output::stdout_is_the_result() at the sites previously flagged as missing and reworked the completions test to put a bunx link on PATH inside the temp directory, addressing both earlier threads. The change still touches the process exit path of every command and process-wide atomics across 20 files, so it is not a candidate for bot approval; the remaining confirmed finding is a nit about bun pm --dry-run help output.

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src/bun_core/Global.rs
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src/runtime/cli/audit_command.rs
src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs
src/runtime/cli/lint_command.rs
src/runtime/cli/mod.rs
src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs
src/runtime/cli/package_manager_command.rs
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claude

I reviewed this push and found no bug in the mechanism itself, but one declared form is missing from the code, so a human look is still worthwhile before merging: bun outdated is listed as declared in the description and asserted by two new tests (test/cli/bun.test.ts:755 and :766, the --cafile=/nonexistent case), yet nothing in src/runtime/cli/outdated_command.rs calls Output::stdout_is_the_result() (and PackageManager::init only declares for dry runs), so both tests should fail with exit 0 and an empty stderr — likely a hunk lost in the rebase onto 9b4284f.

What was reviewed:

The sink path: Output::writer() / writer_buffered() both go through SysQuietWriterAdapter, so every stdout write records its errno; the unbuffered QuietWriter::write_all (Progress) still uses fd_write_all_quiet and is not recorded, which matches the intent.
Exit paths: a normal return from Cli::start reaches Global::exit(0) in bin_entry, so getcompletes and the other Ok(()) returners are covered; the dropped Err(WriteFailed) arm in lockfile.rs was dead since the adapter never returns an error.
The other declared forms in the test matrix (pm hash/--hash, whoami, view/info, dry runs via --check, pm version patch --dry-run, audit fix --dry-run) were traced to a stdout_is_the_result() call on their path.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a process-wide errno latch in bun_core::output and bun_sys, a check in Global::exit, a reader_left predicate for EPIPE/ECONNRESET/ENOTCONN on pipes and sockets, and one-line declarations at about 17 CLI sites, plus 75 new subprocess tests; it touches no auth, crypto or input-parsing surface. It is a cross-cutting exit-code policy change over roughly 50 command forms, which the author frames as needing a maintainer decision. The deciding fact against approval is a concrete code/test mismatch: bun outdated is tested and documented as declared but never calls Output::stdout_is_the_result(), so two of the new tests cannot pass on this commit.

robobun · 2026-10-27T21:58:53Z

The first commit (37e4daf, lint, fmt, check: a reader that left a socket is not a failed write) fixes a flake that is still active on main. It does not depend on the decision that this pull request waits for.

CI. In the 400 builds from 132954 to 133922 (2026-10-26 and 2026-10-27), the two hang-up tests failed their first attempt in 53 builds:

test	builds	failures by lane
`test/cli/lint/lint.test.ts`, `prints more output than fits in a pipe, and still exits with 1 if the reader closes the pipe early`	44	macOS x64 27, macOS aarch64 18
`test/cli/format/format.test.ts`, `exits with 0 if the reader closes the pipe early`	9	macOS x64 4, macOS aarch64 5

No failure is on Linux or Windows. Each one passed on the retry. Examples: 133889, 133868, 133859, 133321 (main).

The errno. The bun fmt test asserts on stderr, and all 9 of its failures print the same line:

error: Cannot write standard output: ENOTCONN: Socket is not connected

The bun lint test only reads the exit code: 2 where it expects 1.

Why XNU answers ENOTCONN. The source of XNU (apple-oss-distributions/xnu, main) agrees with the commit message:

sosend (bsd/kern/uipc_socket.c) tests the socket state in sosendcheck with the socket locked. A reader that is gone gives EPIPE there. Then it unlocks the socket while uiomove copies the bytes of the caller, and locks it again before pru_send.
When the reader closes in that window, unp_disconnect clears SS_ISCONNECTED and sets SS_CANTSENDMORE on both sockets.
uipc_send (bsd/kern/uipc_usrreq.c, the SOCK_STREAM case) tests SS_ISCONNECTED first and returns ENOTCONN. The test of SS_CANTSENDMORE, which returns EPIPE, comes after it.

So a write(2) that is in progress when the reader closes fails with ENOTCONN, and lint_command::print (src/runtime/cli/lint_command.rs:268 on main) reports every errno except EPIPE.

A pull request with only the first commit can merge before the decision here.

…ailed write `lint_command::print` and `bun completions` report every failed write to stdout except EPIPE. `Bun.spawn` and Node give a child a socket pair as stdout. When the reader of a socket leaves, macOS fails the write that the close lands in with ENOTCONN, and Linux fails a write that sent nothing yet with ECONNRESET. So `bun fmt` and `bun lint` print "Cannot write standard output" and exit 2 for a reader that only stopped reading. The hang-up tests in test/cli/format/format.test.ts and test/cli/lint/lint.test.ts fail for that reason on macOS in CI, and pass on the retry. `bun_sys::reader_left` asks for both parts: the descriptor is a pipe or a socket, and the errno is EPIPE, ECONNRESET or, on macOS, ENOTCONN. The same errno from a file is still a loss. The tests are in test/cli/bun.test.ts. Two give the command a socket whose reader leaves while the first write waits (Linux, ECONNRESET). One gives it a socket that was never connected (ENOTCONN): macOS expects a quiet exit, Linux expects the error.

Every print through `Output` ends in one write loop in bun_sys, which drops the error. A form that exists to print (a bundle on stdout, a listing, a dry run) then exits 0 when stdout is a full disk. The sink keeps the errno of the first failed write to stdout. A form whose result is what it prints calls `Output::stdout_is_the_result()`. `Global::exit` then prints "error: Cannot write standard output: ENOSPC: No space left on device" and exits 1, unless the reader of a pipe or a socket left (`bun_sys::reader_left`). Help text, a log of work that bun did and the output of a script keep their exit code. `bun lint`, `bun fmt` and `bun check` keep their own check with exit code 2. They print the message through the same function.

robobun · 2026-10-28T01:07:54Z

About the review note that bun outdated does not declare: it did, through its forced dry run. CommandLineArguments::parse sets cli.dry_run = true for Subcommand::Outdated (src/install/PackageManager/CommandLineArguments.rs:1675), and PackageManager::init declares every dry run. That is why the two bun outdated tests passed in CI on 817865a.

c444c86 makes the declaration explicit in outdated_command.rs, right after the arguments are parsed, so it does not depend on that flag. bun outdated --help still exits 0 (three rows in the guard table).

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.

robobun assigned Jarred-Sumner Oct 17, 2026

robobun requested a review from alii October 17, 2026 05:02

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output: report a failed write to stdout instead of claiming success #39531

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robobun force-pushed the robobun/c245eb8d/stdout-write-error-exit-status branch from 821bf46 to 07d7819 Compare October 18, 2026 14:21