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Problem

• On a Kitty terminal, bun README.md downloads every http(s) image before it prints, with no bound. A dropped connection holds the output for 130 s, a silent host for 360 s. An endless body fills memory.
• Cause: prefetch_remote_images (src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:3455, main) waits on done_channel.read_item() with no timeout, abort or size limit.

Fix

• The render thread gives the batch 3 s, request setup included, and at most 64 MiB. Then it aborts the running requests and prints. Missing images render as alt text.
• Correct: requests own themselves and share one refcounted batch. No late callback reaches freed memory.
• Removes the unused bun_threading::Channel. Verified: 7 new tests in test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts that main fails.
• Self-reviewed: 26 concerns raised, 23 addressed. Notes give the 3 not done.

Background

• A Kitty terminal draws an image from a file, so bun first stages remote images in TMPDIR.
• Requests run on the HTTP thread. Signals.aborted with schedule_shutdown_by_id cancels one.
• Considered a cap or timer in bun_http: every fetch pays per body read, and this wait stays untimed.

Downsides

• Behaviour change: an image that needs more than 3 s is now alt text. On Linux one lost DNS query does it: glibc retries after 5 s.
• Also alt text: images past 64 MiB total, compressed bodies. Not capped: image count, reachable hosts.
• Per healthy image: 1 more allocation, 1 clock read, 2 abort-tracker inserts, one copy of multi-chunk bodies. Text +3,328 B.

Notes

Source and reach

• An automated finding on main, forwarded by @Jarred-Sumner. There is no issue, and no user reported a stall.
• Only interactive bun file.md on a terminal that speaks the Kitty graphics protocol reaches this code: stdout is a TTY, colors are on, and the file has an http(s) image. On any other terminal bun sends no request.

Open points for a maintainer

1. Where the waiter lives. This PR keeps it in run_command.rs. cli: remove unsafe from bun run / bun test / --filter and the other CLI commands #40242 moves the old, untimed wait into bun_http::async_http::get_many_sync, so that run_command.rs has no unsafe. The bounded batch of this PR (RemoteImageBatch, RemoteImageDownload, settle, about 200 lines with 4 unsafe blocks) can move there as it is, as get_many_sync(urls, redirect, deadline, byte_budget). Say if it must move in this PR.
2. Add markdown ANSI pretty-printer for bun ./file.md #28833 said: "We should wait for all downloads to complete before starting the 2nd pass." This PR changes that to "wait at most 3 s". Remote images stay on by default, and are still fetched all at once.
3. The numbers. REMOTE_IMAGE_DEADLINE (3 s) and REMOTE_IMAGE_BYTE_BUDGET (64 MiB) are a proposal, both for the whole document.
   • With 3 s, a silent host costs 3.0 s. On Linux an image whose host needs one DNS retry becomes alt text (glibc RES_TIMEOUT is 5 s). Measured with a DNS stub that drops the first query: this PR prints at 3.0 s with alt text, main prints at 5.0 to 5.4 s with the image.
   • With 6 s that image is drawn, and a dead host holds the output for 6 s.
   • For comparison, mdcat gives each remote resource 1 s (easy.timeout(Duration::from_secs(1))) and 104,857,600 bytes (DEFAULT_RESOURCE_READ_LIMIT).
   • The 3 s is a total for the document, not an idle bound. A review asked for a wait that restarts while bytes arrive. That keeps a large image on a slow link. It does not end a body that drips, so it needs a total bound too. The output stays empty until that bound. It does not keep the image of the DNS case: no byte has arrived at 3 s.
4. The staged bun-md-* files still stay in TMPDIR after bun exits, as before. One run stages at most 64 MiB of image bytes, and nothing bounds the sum over runs. Sending the bytes inside the escape would need no file. Add markdown ANSI pretty-printer for bun ./file.md #28833 chose files.
5. An image that misses a bound renders like any image that failed to load. Bun.markdown.ansi: show image URL and cap Kitty image width #29131 changes how that fallback looks.

How the bound works

• RemoteImageBatch holds the URL list, the request header bytes, the two signals (aborted, response_body_streaming), a byte counter, and a mutex-guarded state with a condition variable. prefetch_remote_images holds one reference and each request holds one.
• RemoteImageDownload::on_progress runs on the HTTP thread once per body chunk and once at the end. It counts the chunk against the budget before it keeps it. The first chunk past the budget sets aborted and wakes the render thread.
• RemoteImageBatch::settle waits with Condvar::timed_wait_guarded until every request reported, the budget is passed, or the deadline. Then it takes the results, sets aborted, and calls schedule_shutdown_by_id for each request that has not reported. It does not wait for them: an aborted request reports later to a batch that is closed, which is why the batch is refcounted and each request frees itself.
• The deadline starts before prefetch_remote_images creates the requests, and the loop that creates them stops at the deadline. An image that got no request renders as alt text. A release build creates a request in about 3 µs, so the loop reaches the deadline only with about a million images.
• The requests send Accept-Encoding: identity and decompression is off (disable_decompression), so the budget counts the bytes the host sends. A response that names gzip, deflate, br or zstd anyway is not staged: the body is still compressed. Any other Content-Encoding token passes, as on main.
• The images that arrived before a bound was passed are kept.
• A Content-Length larger than the budget does not end a request early. bun reads the body until the count passes the budget, and the host has sent 65 to 73 MiB by then.
• Considered leaving decompression on and capping the decoder with the demand-driven receive mode of fetch: bound decompressed output to reader demand #43123 (Signals.body_receive_mode). That cap is for HTTP/1.1 only, and the consumer has to resume the transport after each 256 KiB. With decompression off the budget is one counter.
• The two halves are separable. The deadline, the abort and the ownership change stand alone. The byte budget adds the streaming signal, Accept-Encoding: identity, decompression off and the counter.
• This is not the host filter of ai slop #36171. It adds a time bound and a byte bound, filters no host, and has fewer non-test lines than before.

Measurements (Linux x64, main 017b2439a7 against this branch, release and debug builds made locally from the same checkout)

First line of the document, release builds, 3 interleaved runs, pty with TERM=xterm-kitty KITTY_WINDOW_ID=1:

image host	main	this PR
network drops the connection (SYN never answered)	130.2 s	3006 to 3011 ms
silent	nothing in 20 s	3004 to 3006 ms
body drips 1 byte a second	nothing in 20 s	3004 to 3007 ms
body never ends	nothing in 20 s	81 to 108 ms
redirect to a silent host	nothing in 20 s	3003 to 3008 ms
300 images, silent host	nothing in 20 s	3009 to 3010 ms
answers (control)	7 to 14 ms	11 to 20 ms
1000 images that answer (control)	135 to 181 ms	122 to 234 ms
non-Kitty terminal (control)	85 to 91 ms	84 to 101 ms

• Repro script of the finding: exit code 0 (main: 1).
• Fail-before: a debug build and a release build of main fail all 7 new tests (5 by timeout, 2 by assertion). This branch passes them on both.
• Main-thread wait before the first write, 1 s into a silent host (/proc/<pid>/task/<pid>/syscall): futex(..., FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, <timeout>) from Condition::timed_wait. Main: the same call with a NULL timeout.
• Endless body: 65 to 73 MiB taken from the host, peak RSS 136 to 152 MB (main: 1536 MiB, the cap of the test host, peak RSS 2.6 GB, killed at 20 s).
• A 65 KB gzip body that inflates to 64 MiB: 0 bytes staged, alt text, peak RSS 64 MB (main: 67,108,864 bytes staged, peak RSS 168 MB).
• Allocations per healthy render between http_thread::init and the first staged file, main thread / other threads, 3 runs each: 1 image 9 / 27 (main 3 / 13 to 24). 8 images 30 / 62 to 73 (main 18 / 56 to 67). 100 images 306 / 634 (main 206 / 612 to 623). The request headers are 2 of the 3 main-thread allocations per image.
• Abort tracker per healthy image: 2 puts, 2 removes, 1 id (main: 0, 0, 0).
• Calls of the result callback and body bytes it copies, one image of 256 B / 1 MiB / 16 MiB: 1 call, 0 B / 4 calls, the whole body / 34 calls, the whole body (main: 1 call, 0 B).
• Main-thread clock reads per healthy render: 10, 20 and 111 with 1, 11 and 101 images. One per image is the deadline check in the setup loop (main: 6 with 1 image, 7 to 58 with 100). Main-thread futex waits per render: 1 timed, plus 0 to 1 on the lock (main: 1 to 2 with 1 image, 1 to 103 with 100).
• Feature off (non-Kitty terminal, no image, or a local image only): 4 clock reads, 0 futex calls, 1 thread, the same as main.
• On expiry with 1 / 300 unfinished requests: 1 / 300 schedule_shutdown_by_id calls, each with one wakeup of the HTTP thread.
• Many images on a silent host, release builds, main 9b4284f788 against this branch. 100,000 images: first line at 3.13 s, peak RSS 335 MB (main: no line, 677 MB). 1,000,000 images: first line at 5.0 to 5.1 s, peak RSS 2.5 to 3.3 GB (main: nothing in 15 s, 4.5 GB when killed). 3,000,000 images: the setup loop stops at the deadline, no request reaches the host, first line at 8.4 s, peak RSS 3.6 GB. The time past 3 s is the extra parse that finds the images, the abort calls and the render. On a non-Kitty terminal the three documents print at 0.15 s, 0.74 s and 2.2 s.
• Release binary (size, against main 9b4284f788): text +3,328 B, data +0, bss +0.
• markdown-entrypoint.test.ts: debug build 12.6 to 15.5 s (main 7.5 to 8.1 s warm), release 3.7 s (main 0.2 s). Slowest new test: 3.0 s on release, 3.3 to 4.7 s on a debug build. The tests that wait out the deadline run at the same time. They pass an explicit 30 s timeout, because a debug build has little room left in the default 5 s.
• Tools: size, /proc, gdb with counting breakpoints, an LD_PRELOAD counter, and network namespaces for the dropped connection and the lost DNS query. valgrind, perf, strace and bloaty were not available.

What the tests pin

• The deadline, bracketed: an image that answers after a third of it is staged, one that answers after three times it is alt text. Also a silent host, a dripping body, a redirect to a silent host, and 300 images on a silent host, of which 256 reach the host.
• The abort: with the terminal stopped by Ctrl-S and a document larger than the terminal's queue, bun cannot exit, and the host still sees the stalled requests end (POSIX).
• A stuck HTTP thread (SSL_CERT_FILE is a FIFO with no writer) costs one deadline (Linux).
• The byte budget is one count for the document: two bodies of exactly 64 MiB in total are both staged, one byte more drops the body that crosses, and an endless body stops near the budget while the image that arrived is kept.
• What is staged: a 200 with a body. Not a 404 with a body, not an empty 200, not a gzip body. A redirect is followed. identity and an unknown coding are staged. Each file has the bytes of its own URL.
• The request carries Accept-Encoding: identity.
• Not pinned by a test: the stop of the setup loop at the deadline. Only a document with about a million images reaches it. The measurements above cover it.

Not in this PR

• The image count. 1000 answering images are still 1000 requests (256 at a time) and 1000 bun-md-* files. A cap is a new policy number and goes against "fetch all the images at once" from Add markdown ANSI pretty-printer for bun ./file.md #28833. The deadline bounds the time of the request setup, not its memory: a request is about 3.3 KB.
• The hosts a document can reach: loopback, link-local, and any redirect target.
• Images in a heading or a table cell are fetched and staged but never drawn. That is handled separately.
• An SVG image is staged and named to the terminal as PNG. The terminal draws nothing, and there is no alt text. That is older behaviour, see Bun.markdown.ansi: show image URL and cap Kitty image width #29131.
• The 13 blocking requests behind AsyncHTTP::send_sync_for_result (bun create, bun upgrade, bun publish, bun audit, bun pm view, the --compile target download). There a silent host ends at the HTTP idle timeout, 300 s by default. A 3 s total or a byte budget does not fit a download the user asked for.
• bun_collections stays listed in src/threading/Cargo.toml, although nothing in that crate uses it after channel.rs is gone (cargo reports it as an unused dependency, as it does for 9 others on main). Dropping it changes Cargo.lock, and then main's src/ does not build against this branch's lock file (cargo metadata --locked), which the fail-before run of the new tests needs. It can go in a follow-up.
• docs/ does not describe bun file.md, so there is no doc change.

Self-review: the 3 concerns not done

• Split the commits at the byte budget. Not done: the PR lands as one squash commit, and the seam is described under "How the bound works".
• Open an issue for the staged files. Not done: it is open point 4, a choice for a maintainer.
• Numbers from a census of README images. Not carried: they were not verified for this PR.

Open PRs that touch the same lines

• Supersedes threading: publish into a Channel without holding a reference into it past the release #38358, which changes bun_threading::Channel::write_item. This PR deletes that type.
• Lands before run: honor http_proxy and NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED when prefetching markdown images #38088, which makes this prefetch read the proxy environment and edits the same Options literal. Until then a network that only a proxy can leave costs the full 3 s on each render and shows no image.
• http: widen the per-request id to 64 bits and start the counter at 1 #37437 widens the request id to 64 bits. request_ids: Vec<u32> follows it.
• cli: remove unsafe from bun run / bun test / --filter and the other CLI commands #40242 and HTTP client: remove unsafe from src/http (h1/h2/h3 client, proxy tunnel, HTTP thread, keep-alive pool) #40385 remove unsafe from the CLI and from src/http. cli: remove unsafe from bun run / bun test / --filter and the other CLI commands #40242's get_many_sync is the old wait, still untimed. Whichever lands second needs a rebase (see open point 1).

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^{Updated 3:05 AM PT - Oct 21st, 2026}

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Status: reproduced on main. The fix and the tests are in this PR.

• Reproduced with a release build of main (017b2439a7): bun README.md on a pty with TERM=xterm-kitty KITTY_WINDOW_ID=1 and one image on a loopback host that accepts the request and never answers. Nothing is printed in 20 s. With an image body that never ends, bun takes 1.5 GB from the host and prints nothing.
• With this PR the silent host costs 3.0 s, and the endless body stops after about 70 MiB.
• test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts: the 7 new tests fail on a debug build and on a release build of main, and pass with this PR.

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Walkthrough

Markdown remote-image prefetching now uses a shared three-second deadline and a 64 MiB aggregate response-body limit. The change removes the threading channel API and updates HTTP documentation and remote-image tests.

Changes

Markdown Remote-Image Prefetch

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HTTP and threading API cleanup mordant-baseline.toml, src/http/AsyncHTTP.rs, src/http/lib.rs, src/threading/channel.rs, src/threading/lib.rs	The threading channel module and re-export are removed. HTTP comments no longer describe the former channel design, and the baseline entry for the deleted channel is removed. The body_owned documentation no longer lists RemoteImageDownload as a one-shot consumer.
Bounded remote-image prefetch src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs	Requests share a three-second deadline and a 64 MiB aggregate response-body limit. Requests ask for identity encoding and disable decompression. Only eligible responses are staged. Unfinished requests are aborted at settlement, and failed staging writes or map insertions remove the temporary file.
Remote-image limits and fallback tests test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts	Tests cover deadlines, stalled and excess requests, response encodings, blocked HTTPS setup, and the aggregate byte limit. Assertions check staged files, alt-text fallbacks, and process completion.

Suggested reviewers: alii

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f78a9

Documents with many remote images can delay the first line beyond the intended three seconds. Bound request setup and remove the prohibited test timeouts before merging, or explicitly accept these limited risks.

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that deleting bun_threading::Channel leaves no other users (the Channel types in src/runtime/cli/test/parallel and src/cares_sys are unrelated), and that the terminal-callback drop order in on_progress keeps the Arc<RemoteImageBatch> alive past the embedded AsyncHTTP drop and the state-lock guard, so the 'static url/header borrows do not outlive the batch.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the Kitty remote-image prefetch in src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs around a refcounted batch with a deadline and byte budget, removes the bun_threading channel, and adds subprocess tests; it touches no auth or credential surface but does add unsafe FFI-callback ownership code on the HTTP thread, which the posted findings cover.

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[claude]

I re-reviewed after the latest push and found no new bugs; the remaining open threads are design calls (deadline semantics, compressed bodies, the 64 MiB test workload) that a maintainer should settle, so a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• The ownership and abort paths in src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs: the RemoteImageDownload Box is freed only in the terminal callback; on_async_http_callback_raw touches the original request before the callback and only the thread-local clone after it, so heap::take there is sound; drain_queued_shutdowns tolerates ids already unregistered, and aborted-but-unstarted tasks are started and fail fast, so every request reaches its terminal callback and pending drains.
• The byte budget: body and body_owned are never both populated in one callback, so chunks are not double-counted; the closed check keeps a late callback from indexing the taken images vector.
• The two fixes in 189fe74 (the SAFETY wording on on_progress and the 64 KB document in the Ctrl-S abort test) match what the code does.

Extended reasoning...

The PR reworks the Kitty remote-image prefetch in src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs into a refcounted batch with raw-pointer callback contexts on the HTTP thread, adds a 3 s deadline and 64 MiB budget, deletes src/threading/channel.rs, and adds about 440 lines of pty-driven tests. It touches no auth, crypto or permission surface, but it is unsafe cross-thread lifetime code plus a user-visible behavior change whose constants the author explicitly leaves for a maintainer. Two of my five earlier inline findings were addressed by the latest commit; the other three remain open as the author's stated design choices, and the bug hunt ran dry with no new findings, so a defer rather than an approval is appropriate.

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• 🔴 src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:3264 — Kitty users on a slow link or with a multi-megabyte README image now get alt text where the base branch drew the image.…
• 🔴 test/cli/run/markdown-entrypoint.test.ts:758 — On a slow CI lane (debug or ASAN build, loaded runner) the two 64 MiB test.serial cases fail or flake, which no test on…
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🟡 Minor · Start the deadline before remote-request setup. · run_command.rs:3542-3544

src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:3542-3544
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Start the deadline before remote-request setup.

render_markdown_file waits for prefetch_remote_images before printing. The setup loop synchronously constructs and schedules every unique remote URL before REMOTE_IMAGE_DEADLINE starts. A document with enough URLs can therefore spend more than three seconds in setup before settle begins its bounded wait. The FIFO test covers an HTTP-thread TLS stall, not this caller-side loop.

Start the deadline before the loop and stop creating requests when it expires. Check before allocation and break, rather than skip, so scheduled request IDs remain prefix-aligned with image indices.

Suggested fix

+        let deadline = Instant::now() + REMOTE_IMAGE_DEADLINE;
         let mut request_ids: Vec<u32> = Vec::with_capacity(count);
         let mut tasks = bun_threading::thread_pool::Batch::default();
         for (index, url) in batch.urls.iter().enumerate() {
+            if Instant::now() >= deadline {
+                break;
+            }
             let download = bun_core::heap::into_raw(Box::new(RemoteImageDownload {
                 async_http: None,
                 batch: Arc::clone(&batch),
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-        let deadline = Instant::now() + REMOTE_IMAGE_DEADLINE;
         bun_http::HTTPThread::schedule(tasks);

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setup loop and check it before allocating each request; break when it expires so
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[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

The case that this body names under "Not in this PR" (images in a heading or a table cell are fetched and staged but never drawn) is in #46094. It changes only src/md/ansi_renderer.rs and keeps the ImageUrlCollector interface. The two branches merge without a conflict.

[robobun]

On the review finding "Start the deadline before remote-request setup": done in d724a29.

• The deadline now starts before the loop that creates the requests. The loop stops when the deadline passes, and an image that got no request renders as alt text.
• Measured on a release build: a request takes about 3 µs to create, so the loop reaches the deadline only with about a million images. With 3,000,000 images on a silent host the loop stops, no request reaches the host, and the first line prints at 8.4 s. The time past 3 s there is the parse that finds the images, the abort calls and the render.
• The cost is one clock read for each image on the render thread.
• No test pins the stop of the loop, because it needs a document of that size. The numbers are in the PR notes.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the follow-up commits and found no bugs; the earlier threads look addressed in code. Since this is ~370 lines of cross-thread unsafe Rust and the description itself leaves the 3 s / 64 MiB constants and the placement of the batch to a maintainer, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed this round:

• The deadline now covering request setup: the break leaves unrequested images Pending, pending is set from request_ids.len() before HTTPThread::schedule, and settle zips ids with images so only requested ones get schedule_shutdown_by_id.
• The heap::take in the terminal callback against on_async_http_callback_raw: real is read before callback.run and only the threadlocal storage is deallocated afterwards, so freeing the original inside the callback does not dangle; the Arc moved out of the struct outlives drop(async_http).
• The abort test now pads the document to 64 KiB so the XOFF-stopped pty blocks the write on macOS as well as Linux; the at-budget / one-past-budget serial tests still depend on moving 64 MiB inside the 3 s deadline on the running lane.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the Kitty remote-image prefetch in src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs into an Arc-shared batch with a condvar wait, a 3 s deadline and a 64 MiB byte budget, deletes bun_threading::Channel, and adds seven pty-driven tests. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface, but it is unsafe cross-thread Rust whose lifetimes depend on the HTTP thread's callback ordering, and the staged files are written to TMPDIR from untrusted bodies bounded only by the new budget. The follow-up push addressed the threads from earlier runs, and the bug hunt ran dry, but the size, the unsafe surface, and the author's own open questions for a maintainer (constants, where the batch should live) rule out approving without a human.