Wait for input when a synchronous read of stdin gets EAGAIN by robobun · Pull Request #46192 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-10-20T11:42:13Z

Problem

bun repl exits with code 0, no message, when read(0) fails with EAGAIN. prompt() returns null.
O_NONBLOCK is on the open file description, which fds 0, 1, 2 and other programs share. On a socket, Bun's process.stdout sets it.
Repl::read_byte (src/runtime/cli/repl.rs:1176) and Bun's other synchronous stdin readers take every read error for the end of input.

Fix

bun_sys::read_stdin_blocking waits on EAGAIN until stdin is readable and reads again. On another EAGAIN it repeats, and sleeps 1 ms before each further read. It leaves the flag alone.
The REPL, dialogs and CLI prompts call it. File::read does the same for stdin only. A source lint rejects read(Fd::stdin()) outside bun_sys.
Verified: 13 new tests in 5 files fail on main. Also ran process-stdio, process-stdin, init.
Self-reviewed: 37 concerns raised, 30 addressed, 7 in Notes.

Background

An open file description is the kernel object behind an fd. dup and fork share it and its O_NONBLOCK flag.
write_all_to_stdio waits for POLLOUT on EAGAIN since process.stdout/stderr: clear O_NONBLOCK for spawned children, don't drop console output on EAGAIN #43868. This is the read side.
Considered a fix in repl.rs only: other readers stay wrong. Clearing the flag would block other programs on that description.

Downsides

Readers that returned at once on a non-blocking stdin now wait. A script can depend on null from prompt().
.text: +2,048 bytes, then +47. Repl::read_byte is a call at 9 sites (main: 6 inline). A blocking stdin adds no syscall.
A stdin that poll(2) cannot watch costs one read per ms of waiting. Only CI runs the macOS wait. Windows is unchanged.

Notes

Origin and reach

Found by a fuzz run on the REPL. No user report and no issue exist.
Three ways to get the flag on stdin, each reproduced on main (linux-x64):
- stdin and stdout on one socket (inetd, socat EXEC:, nc -e). Bun alone causes it: process.stdout.write() sets the flag on the shared description.
- a terminal that another program left non-blocking, for example python3 -c "import os; os.set_blocking(0, False)" as a child from the REPL prompt. The same through fd 1.
- a pipe on stdin shared with a Node process that still runs and has opened process.stdin.
Workaround on released versions: Bun.spawnSync(["true"], { stdin: "inherit" }) clears the flag on fd 0 (spawn does that since process.stdout/stderr: clear O_NONBLOCK for spawned children, don't drop console output on EAGAIN #43868). It does not help bun repl, which runs no user code before its first read.

What each reader does on main (stdin non-blocking, no input yet), and how it is covered

Reader	main	Covered by
`bun repl`	prints the prompt, exits 0, stderr empty	4 tests (socket, FIFO, pty, pty goes away)
`prompt()`, `confirm()`, `alert()`	`null`, `false`, returns at once	test
`bun run -`	exits 1, no output	test
`bun lint --stdin`, `bun fmt --stdin-filepath`	`error: Cannot read standard input: EAGAIN`, exit 2	tests
`bun update -i`	takes the failed read for Enter	test
`bun publish` OTP prompt	`Unexpected: failed to read OTP input`, exit 1	test
`bun publish` ENTER of the web login	ENTER does nothing: the thread that reads it ends at its first read	test
`bun init` menu on a terminal	takes the failed read for Enter and scaffolds	run by hand
security scanner prompt	read from code	not run

The wait

read_stdin_blocking does one read. On EAGAIN it calls a cold function that waits (poll(2), select(2) on macOS) and reads again.
That read can still say EAGAIN. Another reader of the description took the input, or the wait cannot watch this stdin and returned at once. Linux reports a descriptor without a poll handler as always readable, and poll fails with EINVAL above the soft RLIMIT_NOFILE. The function then goes straight back to the wait, and sleeps 1 ms before each further read.
The sleep is after the wait, not before it. On macOS, select reports the end of a FIFO only until one reader has read that end: XNU's fifo_read clears the mark. A reader that sleeps between its read and its wait misses the end when a second reader reads it first. This comes from reading XNU, not from a run.
The caller never gets EAGAIN: the read behaves like a blocking read for every kind of stdin. A hangup gives 0 bytes or EIO, which ends the input as before.
The first push gave the EAGAIN of a stdin that the wait cannot watch to the caller, and did not sleep after a lost race. A review comment showed that a descriptor that is always readable made that loop spin.
macOS uses select(2) because poll(2) there does not watch every device (/dev/tty) and misses the last writer of a FIFO closing. That comes from reading XNU and src/io/PipeReader.rs:702. No macOS machine ran it here. CI ran the socket, FIFO and pty tests of the first push there (x64 and aarch64).
File::read waits only when the handle is fd 0. The lint driver opens paths with O_NONBLOCK on purpose and must keep its EAGAIN. Bun keeps fds 0 to 2 valid from startup, so fd 0 is always stdin.

Measurements (release builds of main ea6a2c7 and the first push 54e2984, linux-x64)

Blocking stdin: +0 read, +0 poll, +0 fcntl calls over 10,000 REPL refills (10,020 reads in both), prompt() (18 in both) and bun run - (19 in both). Counted with gdb catch syscall: strace is not installed here.
Ok path per stdin read: read_byte 15 -> 20 instructions for a buffered byte, 21 -> 26 for a refill. take_byte is inline in both. BufferedStdin::read 149 -> 162 instructions, 2 inline syscalls in both. One more read of confirm() is a call (objdump).
File: read_to_end_into 107 -> 138 instructions with its inline syscall kept. File::read is a function of 80 instructions with 6 callers now (.env files, certificate files, bun run -). It was inline before. File::read_all and the resolver's read_file_with_allocator have the same instruction sequence as on main.
Release .text: +2,048 bytes (81,695,461 -> 81,697,509, size). .bss: -64 bytes. Windows: not measured. The second push was not measured this way: see the retry loop below.
Non-blocking stdin: 3 syscalls per wait (read = EAGAIN, poll, read). On main: 1, then the exit. F_SETFL on fd 0: 0. CPU ticks while parked for 3 s: 0.
The retry loop after the first push: read_stdin_when_readable is 285 bytes, 238 before (+47, nm -S, release build of bun_sys). No other function of bun_sys changed size, and its callers did not change.
A stdin that poll cannot watch (soft RLIMIT_NOFILE of 0, debug build): 50 reads and 50 sleeps in 78 ms while prompt() waits. With nanosleep made a no-op through LD_PRELOAD: 11,347,616 reads and 0 sleeps in 8 s.
Raw stdin reads outside bun_sys: 3 -> 2 (the lint's allowlist). bun_sys pub items: +1. Lint: 3,219 files scanned, 2 hits.

Tests

The tests send input only after the child sleeps in a system call with its stdin in non-blocking mode (untilBunWaitsForInput: /proc/<pid>/stat and fdinfo/0 on Linux, ps elsewhere). Without that gate the input often arrives before the first empty read and an unfixed build passes.
Most tests use a FIFO that the harness opens with O_NONBLOCK and hands over as fd 3. They do not depend on what Bun does to the flag.
Two tests pin the loop. Two prompt() readers on one FIFO fail without the retry. A prompt() under a soft RLIMIT_NOFILE of 0 (poll fails) must still get its line, and the test counts the reads of the child per sleep (syscr in /proc/<pid>/io, voluntary_ctxt_switches in /proc/<pid>/status): fewer than 10. Without the sleep the child does not sleep at all.
The ENTER test of bun publish sends the newline at the second poll of the done URL. bun publish waits 500 ms between the first two polls, so the thread that reads ENTER has made its first read by then.
The test with two readers clears BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_NO_ORPHANS for them. One reader is the parent of the other one, and with that flag, which the test runner sets for ASAN builds, it kills its child when it exits. With the flag set outside, 25 runs of the three dialog tests: 75 of 75 passes.
bun lint --stdin is tested on canary builds only: a release build has no bun lint (bun lint: a command in canary builds only #46438).
The first 12 tests on an unfixed release build of main: 0 passes in 20 runs of each file (240 test executions). Fixed: 240 of 240 (release), 72 of 72 (debug). The tests of the second push fail on the unfixed release build and pass on the debug build.

Not changed on purpose

fs.readSync(0), fs.readFileSync(0) and fs.readvSync(0) keep throwing EAGAIN, as in Node. The dialogs test asserts it. fs.readSync behaves unusually with a running readline interface #5305 is about that call.
File::read_all reads without the wait. The resolver reads every source file with it, and nothing reads stdin with it.
The two timed terminal probes in src/md/ansi_renderer.rs poll with a deadline of their own. They are the lint's allowlist.
Windows: a stdin pipe in PIPE_NOWAIT mode still ends the input. Not handled and not tested.

Not covered here

Write side: raw stdout writes that do not go through write_all_to_stdio still drop output on EAGAIN. bun run --filter on a pipe that an earlier Bun left non-blocking delivered 62 KB of 2.69 MB with exit code 0. Handed off as separate work.
Bun leaves O_NONBLOCK on a shared pipe or socket at exit ({ bun -e 'process.stdout.write("x")'; seq 1 300000; } | { sleep 1; wc -c; } fails in seq). Node clears it. Handed off as separate work.
bun publish -r: the thread that waits for ENTER cannot be stopped (publish_command.rs:118). After a web login that ended without ENTER, it takes the first line typed at a later OTP prompt of the same run: 2 of 2 runs on a terminal with main's code for a blocking stdin. This PR makes a non-blocking stdin behave the same. Handed off as separate work.
A datagram socket after shutdown(SHUT_RD): a blocking read returns 0, but a non-blocking read keeps EAGAIN while poll reports POLLIN. The read waits for ever at one try per ms. The first push spun there.
A blocking socket with SO_RCVTIMEO: the EAGAIN of its timeout is waited out too. On main prompt() returns null then.

Self-review, open items

First review: no wait in File::read_all, no test for bun init, no test for a second reader on a pty.
Review of the retry loop: the two socket cases above, the ENTER thread (handed off), and a tsc error on connect({ fd }) in repl.test.ts. test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts adopts an fd the same way, and nothing type-checks test/.

Neighbouring PRs

CLI: fixes for bun run, flags, bunfig.toml, .env, --filter, bun init and completions #46007 adds two File::stdin() callers and reads bun run - through a passed-in File. It conflicts with main today, in no file that this PR changes (git merge-tree). Its exec_stdin reads through File::read_to_end_into, which now waits for stdin.
repl: evaluate a last line that has no newline at the end of piped input #46126 edits the same read_byte arm. It must not add an EAGAIN retry of its own: the wait is in bun_sys. Its tests conflict with these in repl.test.ts.
repl: pump event loop while waiting for stdin so timers and IPC fire #30560 and prompt, alert, confirm: run JS signal listeners while waiting for input #41723 add waits of their own around these reads. Their read after the wait needs the same rule: EAGAIN means wait again.
stdin: set O_NONBLOCK on the stdio fd when process.stdin starts reading #35477 sets O_NONBLOCK on fd 0 whenever process.stdin starts. It needs this change first.
Delete BufferedStdin: prompt(), bun init and the publish OTP question take one line of stdin #36369 owns the read-ahead of prompt(). On a non-blocking stdin a reader now waits for input that an earlier prompt() buffered, as it does on a terminal.
Read console stdin with ReadConsoleW on Windows so non-ASCII input survives (REPL, prompt(), bun -) #38140 changes the Windows console read and is independent.
io: wait for a named pipe's EOF with select(2) on macOS #40099 adds a select(2) wait for a FIFO's end on macOS. The wait here can use its helper when it lands.

no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/web/web-globals.test.js, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts, test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts, test/cli/run/run-eval.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts

On POSIX, fd 0 can be O_NONBLOCK. The flag is on the open file description, which fd 1/2 and every program on the same terminal share, and process.stdout sets it on a socket. Bun's own synchronous stdin readers took the EAGAIN of such a read for the end of the input: the REPL left with exit code 0, prompt() returned null, and `bun update -i` read it as Enter. bun_sys::read_stdin_blocking waits until stdin is readable and reads again, as write_all_to_stdio does for a write. The REPL, the OutputSink slot (prompt(), confirm(), alert() and the CLI prompts) and the `bun publish` Enter thread call it. File::read does the same for the stdin handle, which covers `bun run -`, `bun lint --stdin` and `bun fmt --stdin-filepath`. Any other handle keeps its EAGAIN. The wait is poll(2), and select(2) on macOS, where poll does not watch every device and misses the last writer of a FIFO closing. O_NONBLOCK is not changed. node:fs reads of fd 0 still report EAGAIN, as in Node. A source lint rejects a plain read(Fd::stdin()) outside bun_sys.

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Bun now handles stdin reads through a stdin-specific interface and waits for readiness after retryable non-blocking reads on Unix. CLI callers use the updated read paths. Tests add non-blocking stdin coverage for CLI commands, the REPL, and web globals.

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Stdin reading

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stdin read contract and readiness handling `src/bun_core/lib.rs`, `src/bun_core/output.rs`, `src/sys/lib.rs`, `src/sys/file.rs`	The output sink callback is now `read_stdin`, and `BufferedStdin` and `StdinReader` no longer store an fd. Unix stdin reads wait for readiness after EAGAIN. `File::read` retries retryable reads for stdin.
CLI stdin callers `src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs`, `src/runtime/cli/repl.rs`	The publish prompt and REPL refill paths now call `read_stdin_blocking`.
Non-blocking stdin test helpers `test/harness.ts`	The harness adds output matching, FIFO-backed process spawning, and polling for a Bun process waiting for input.
Non-blocking stdin coverage `test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts`, `test/cli/run/run-eval.test.ts`, `test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts`, `test/internal/source-lints/*`, `test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts`, `test/js/web/web-globals.test.js`	Tests cover non-blocking stdin in publish, run, fmt, lint, update, REPL, and web-global input flows. A source lint checks remaining direct stdin reads.

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robobun · 2026-10-20T11:42:25Z

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❌ @robobun, your commit 5b464ea has some failures in Build #130781 (All Failures)

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robobun · 2026-10-20T11:43:58Z

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How it was reproduced (linux-x64, release build of main ea6a2c7):

sh -c 'exec bun repl <&3 >&3' with fd 3 on a socket. At the prompt, process.stdout.write("x\n") puts O_NONBLOCK on the shared description. The REPL exits with code 0 at its next read.
A FIFO opened with O_NONBLOCK as stdin, with no input yet. bun repl prints the prompt and exits with code 0. prompt() returns null. bun run - exits with code 1.
A pty opened with O_NONBLOCK as stdin. bun repl prints the prompt and exits with code 0.

With this PR each of them waits for its input. The 12 new tests fail on that build of main and pass with the fix.

PR: #46192

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, I also checked that a signal interrupting the wait cannot turn into a spurious EAGAIN/EOF for the caller — posix::poll loops on EINTR and the macOS select branch does the same — and that File::read only takes the wait path when the handle is fd 0, so the lint driver's deliberately O_NONBLOCK files still see their EAGAIN.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds read_stdin_blocking and a poll/select wait loop in src/sys/lib.rs, routes File::read on fd 0 and the bun_core read_stdin vtable slot through it, and switches the REPL and publish OTP prompt to it; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Inline findings already flag the unbounded spin when a driver reports POLLIN without data and the publish Enter-thread interaction, so a human look is needed regardless.

After the wait, a read of stdin that still gets EAGAIN sleeps 1 ms and waits again. Two cases reach this: another reader of the same description took the input, or the wait cannot watch this stdin and returned at once. The read no longer reports EAGAIN to its caller, and the loop does not spin. Tests: - The test that makes poll(2) fail lowers only the soft RLIMIT_NOFILE, restores it, and closes libc before the process exits. It now expects the input, and it counts the reads per sleep. - A new test presses ENTER at the web login of `bun publish` on a non-blocking stdin. - The socket helper moves from the harness to repl.test.ts, its only user. - The stdin lint reads only the lines of files that name Fd::stdin.

A read of stdin that finds nothing now goes straight back to the wait. The 1 ms sleep comes after the next wait, before the read. On macOS, select(2) reports the end of a FIFO only until one reader has read that end, so a reader that sleeps between its read and its wait can miss it. The wait on macOS retries EINTR again. Tests: - The test with two readers of one FIFO clears BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_NO_ORPHANS for them. One reader is the parent of the other one, and with that flag it kills its child when it exits. - The ENTER test says why it is for Linux only.

…n-read-wait-on-eagain # Conflicts: # test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts

A release build has no `bun lint` since #46438.

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Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

The loop waits once before its first read, and waits again after a read that found nothing. The sleep stays between that wait and the next read. The comments of the wait are one line each. Tests: the sampling loop of the rlimit test also ends when the reads pass the bound of the assertion. A reader that spins then fails the assertion and does not run into the timeout.

claude

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

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

🟡 src/sys/file.rs — nit: a maintainer who later reads stdin with File::stdin().read_all(buf) gets the old EAGAIN-as-EOF behaviour, although the new lint says every File::stdin() read waits. read_all at src/sys/file.rs:168 still calls the raw read(self.handle, rest), so the stdin wait added to File::read at src/sys/file.rs:147 is skipped there. Fix: route every File read loop over a cursor (read_all, like read_to_end_into at src/sys/file.rs:180) through self.read, so the stdin wait covers all of them.

Why this was flagged

The new source lint test/internal/source-lints/sync-stdin-read.test.ts:10 tells authors to read stdin either with bun_sys::read_stdin_blocking or through bun_sys::File::stdin() and says both wait. File::read at src/sys/file.rs:147 and read_to_end_into at src/sys/file.rs:180 do wait on EAGAIN for fd 0. File::read_all at src/sys/file.rs:168 still calls the raw read(self.handle, rest) and returns EAGAIN unchanged. No current caller uses read_all on stdin (grep shows only read_to_end_into callers in src/lint/driver/fs.rs:209, src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:3041, src/runtime/cli/lint_command.rs:115), so this is latent today. A future File::stdin().read_all(buf) passes the lint and on a non-blocking stdin ends the input early, the defect this PR fixes elsewhere. Same behaviour as the base branch for that site.

Verification: nit. Triggering condition: any caller that reads fd 0 through File::stdin().read_all(buf) while stdin has O_NONBLOCK set; no such caller exists today. src/sys/file.rs:168 read_all still calls the raw read(self.handle, rest)?, so on stdin it propagates EAGAIN to the caller exactly as the base did. The lint regex only bans read(Fd::stdin()), so File::stdin().read_all(..) would pass the lint.

claude · 2026-10-22T07:30:12Z

+        throw gone();
+      }
+    } else {
+      if (polls === 50) return;


🟡 nit (optional): on macOS the new stdin tests can pass on an unfixed build, because untilBunWaitsForInput resolves after 50 ps polls even when it never saw the child sleeping (test/harness.ts:922). The input is then written before the child's first read, so no EAGAIN ever happens and both fixed and unfixed builds succeed. Fix: make the gate fail loudly when the state cannot be confirmed (throw after the bound, or skipIf the macOS cases with a reason) so the macOS select path in src/sys/lib.rs is proven by a test that can fail.

Why this was flagged

On a non-Linux host, untilBunWaitsForInput at test/harness.ts:922 returns normally once polls === 50 (about 1 s of Bun.sleep(20)), regardless of whether ps -o stat= -o ucomm= ever reported the bun child in state S or I. Every caller (test/js/web/web-globals.test.js, test/js/bun/repl/repl.test.ts, test/cli/run/run-eval.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts, test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts) then writes the input into the FIFO or socket. If the input lands before the child's first read, the read never returns EAGAIN, so the base branch's EAGAIN-as-EOF bug is not exercised and the test passes on both builds. The PR text says the macOS select branch of wait_for_stdin (src/sys/lib.rs:9382) was written from reading XNU and not run locally, so these tests are the only check of it, and this fallback makes that check vacuous on exactly that platform. On Linux the same helper throws when the state is not reached, so the Linux cases do fail for the right reason; only the non-Linux branch is a silent pass.

Verification: Trigger: on macOS, the child has not yet reached its first stdin read when the 50th poll comes. At test/harness.ts:922, if (polls === 50) return; on the non-Linux branch returns normally with state unset, so the caller writes input regardless. In test/cli/run/run-eval.test.ts:324-327 the input then lands in the FIFO before the first read and an unfixed build reads the data and passes.

claude · 2026-10-22T07:30:13Z

+                libc::select(
+                    1,
+                    readable.as_mut_ptr(),
+                    core::ptr::null_mut(),
+                    core::ptr::null_mut(),
+                    core::ptr::null_mut(),
+                )


🟡 nit (optional): the macOS wait at src/sys/lib.rs:9392 calls plain libc::select, the one cancellation-point syscall in a file whose own rule (src/sys/lib.rs:1600) is that Bun always links the $NOCANCEL variant on macOS, as nocancel::poll and nocancel::read do. Nothing fails today because no code in src calls pthread_cancel. Fix: add a select$NOCANCEL binding to the nocancel module and call it from wait_for_stdin, so the stdin wait follows the same convention as the poll wrapper at src/sys/lib.rs:8138.

Why this was flagged

On macOS, read_stdin_when_readable at src/sys/lib.rs:9361 calls wait_for_stdin, which at src/sys/lib.rs:9392 invokes libc::select directly. The nocancel module header at src/sys/lib.rs:1600-1603 states that the plain libc symbols are pthread cancellation points and that Bun always uses the non-cancellable variants on macOS; the sibling posix::poll at src/sys/lib.rs:8138 and read at src/sys/lib.rs:1981 follow that rule. No caller in src uses pthread_cancel (grep finds none), so there is no runtime failure on the base branch or after the change; this is a convention slip in new platform-specific code, not a behavioral defect. The only safeguard is the comment, which does not enforce anything.

Verification: Trigger: any macOS build; nothing observably breaks since no code in src calls pthread_cancel. src/sys/lib.rs:9392 in wait_for_stdin (macOS branch) calls libc::select(1, readable.as_mut_ptr(), null, null, null) directly. The nocancel module header at src/sys/lib.rs:1600-1603 says Bun always uses the non-cancellable variants on macOS; posix::poll at src/sys/lib.rs:8138 uses super::nocancel::poll.

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prompt(), confirm(): skip a byte order mark at the first dialog read of stdin #46280

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robobun added 5 commits October 21, 2026 23:17

Merge branch 'main' into robobun/b5ca00fa/stdin-read-wait-on-eagain

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Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into robobun/b5ca00fa/stdi…

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…n-read-wait-on-eagain # Conflicts: # test/cli/update_interactive_install.test.ts

Run the lint case of the stdin test on canary builds only

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A release build has no `bun lint` since #46438.