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Problem

  • Since 1.4.0, bun completions fails silently for a $HOME with one non-UTF-8 byte: no bunx symlink, and a source line for a nonexistent path in .zshrc. 1.3.14 did both.
  • A $HOME, $BUN_INSTALL, $ZDOTDIR or executable directory too long for a path aborts: panic: buf_print_z: buffer too small: Error.
  • Cause: install_completions_command.rs formats these paths through bstr::BStr (U+FFFD for each invalid byte) into fixed buffers, with writers that panic.

Fix

  • strings::concat_buf_t builds the link paths, the .zshrc path and the .zshrc line from raw bytes, and join_z_buf_checked the completions path. A location that does not fit is skipped.
  • The line that bun prints when it cannot edit .zshrc has the same bytes (new Output::print_error_bytes, separate commit).
  • buf_print_z_infallible has no other caller and is removed.
  • Verified: test/cli/bun.test.ts (16 new tests, 10 fail on main). Self-reviewed twice.

Background

  • A path buffer is a MAX_PATH_BYTES array (4096 on Linux). concat_buf_t copies slices into one, or fails.
  • bun completions also installs the bunx symlink and, for zsh, adds a source line to .zshrc. bun upgrade runs it.
  • Considered: fallible format calls, as in Report a path that does not fit a path buffer instead of aborting #43067, whose completions part this replaces. The U+FFFD path stays.

Downsides

  • No user reported this. A .zshrc with a U+FFFD line from 1.4.x keeps it. Repair: delete the # bun completions block and rerun.
  • The printed line can hold bytes that are not UTF-8, as in 1.3.x. A completions path of MAX_PATH_BYTES bytes gets no .zshrc line.
  • Other input: +0 syscalls, +0 heap calls, +0 binary bytes, 11 of 11 results unchanged.
Notes

Provenance and reach. Found by reading the code. No user reported it and no issue exists. Crash reports were not searched. A $HOME that does not fit in a path is not a real account. A home directory with a Latin-1 byte (/home/jos\xE9) is, on Linux.

The printed line has a smaller reach. bun upgrade and the install script drop the output of bun completions. So a person sees the line only after a run by hand, under zsh, with no .zshrc or .zshenv that opens for writing. The bytes then show in a terminal that uses the encoding of the file name, or with 2>file. A UTF-8 terminal draws U+FFFD for them with and without this change. Nobody needs the printed line: echo '[ -s "$HOME/.bun/_bun" ] && source "$HOME/.bun/_bun"' >> ~/.zshrc works on main, and bun then adds nothing. The reason for the commit is that the line has one form: bun writes it, prints it, and looks for it in .zshrc. With bun completions <d>/comp-\xE9, a copy of the line that main prints is not found again and main appends a second block. A copy of the line that this branch prints is found.

The six statements (line numbers on main 2d6d4454f3):

Statement On main Trigger Now
:41-48 bunx link beside the executable buf_print_z_infallible over bstr::BStr executable directory that is not UTF-8, or 1 byte too long for <dir>/bunx raw bytes, skipped when too long
:59-62 bunx link in $BUN_INSTALL/bin, $HOME/.bun/bin, $HOME/.local/bin same a byte that is not UTF-8. Abort at about 4080 bytes, or about 1360 such bytes same
:475-484 .zshrc lookup three slice copies with no length test: index out of bounds: the len is 4096 but the index is 4096, or range end index 4212 out of range for slice of length 4096 $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc or $HOME/.zshrc of 4096 bytes or more skipped when too long
:460-464 completions path join_string_buf into a path buffer: range end index 4096 out of range for slice of length 4095 completions directory of 4092 to 4095 bytes join_z_buf_checked, no .zshrc line when too long
:496-522 .zshrc line buf_print_infallible over bstr::BStr: buf_print: buffer too small: Error a path that is not UTF-8. Abort with a .zshrc over 64 KB and a path that is mostly not UTF-8, or a .zshrc that is longer than fstat said raw bytes. Without room for the line, the line is printed
:535-541 the line, printed pretty_errorln! over bstr::BStr a path that is not UTF-8, when bun cannot edit .zshrc bytes, through Output::print_error_bytes

The .zshrc line reserves 4 bytes for each byte of the path. The path is printed twice, and U+FFFD is 3 bytes, so the formatted line needs up to 6.

Versions (Linux x64, release builds, each row run here):

Input 1.3.14 (0d9b296af) 1.4.3-canary (367d939d9) and main this branch
$HOME=<d>/jos\xE9, zsh, no bunx on $PATH exit 0, $HOME/.bun/bin/bunx made, raw byte in .zshrc exit 0, no bunx, source line with EF BF BD as 1.3.14
the same $HOME with no .zshrc: the printed line E9 (run on 1.3.13) EF BF BD E9
$HOME = 1400 bytes of 0xE9 exit 0 abort, buf_print_z: buffer too small exit 0, link made when the directory exists
executable in a directory 1 byte too long for <dir>/bunx link in $HOME/.local/bin abort as 1.3.14
5000-byte $ZDOTDIR $HOME/.zshrc edited abort as 1.3.14
5000-byte $HOME or $BUN_INSTALL does not return (killed after 15 s) abort skipped

Tests. All in describe("completions") of test/cli/bun.test.ts. A release build of main 179664ea89 fails 10 of the 16 new tests. The other 6 pass on both: they hold the value one byte below each limit, and the text of the .zshrc line.

  • a 5000-byte $BUN_INSTALL is skipped and $HOME/.bun/bin gets the link
  • $HOME/.local/bin/bunx at MAX_PATH_BYTES - 1 bytes is made, one byte more is skipped
  • the link beside the executable: made at MAX_PATH_BYTES - 1 bytes, skipped at one byte more (2 tests, see the file system note below)
  • Linux: the link is made beside an executable in a directory that is not UTF-8, then in $HOME/.local/bin, then in a $HOME with 1400 bytes of 0xE9
  • $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc at MAX_PATH_BYTES - 1 bytes is edited, one byte more is skipped and $HOME/.zshrc is edited (2 tests)
  • completions directories of MAX_PATH_BYTES - 6, - 5 and - 1 bytes (3 tests)
  • the printed line is found again in a .zshrc, for a directory given as an argument, with a trailing slash, and through $BUN_INSTALL (3 tests)
  • a .zshrc that is a symlink to /dev/zero gets the printed line, not an abort
  • Linux: a path that is not UTF-8 is written to a 72 KB .zshrc as it is
  • Linux: a path that is not UTF-8 is printed as it is, and a copy of the printed line in .zshrc is found again

The three Linux-only tests need file names that are not UTF-8, which macOS refuses. The length tests take the limit from MAX_PATH_BYTES of the harness. Build 132948 passed on head 867e2a6c24 with all 181 jobs. Both Alpine lanes and both macOS lanes ran.

File system note. The target of the bunx symlink is the executable's own path. In the two tests of the link beside the executable that path is as long as a path can be. A file system can limit a symlink target to less (XFS: 1024 bytes), and symlink(2) then fails for every location. Build 130535 failed these two tests on both Alpine lanes in that way: no link in any directory. An LD_PRELOAD shim that refuses a target over 1024 bytes gives the same two failures with the same values here. The two tests now run only where a probe symlink with a target of MAX_PATH_BYTES - 1 bytes can be made. There bun completions makes no bunx link for such an executable, because the kernel refuses each target.

The new bunx tests run concurrently and share the helper bunxInstaller. Where the temporary directory is on another file system than the executable, they link to one copy of it. On macOS it makes the private executable with COPYFILE_FICLONE, not a hardlink. That is the change of #43721: fs.realpathSync of a hardlink can name another link there, and that made the existing bunx test fail its first attempt in 36 of 400 builds. With this merged, #43721 is not needed.

Cost for input that never hits this. Release builds of main 179664ea89 and of this branch with the printed-line commit, same fixture paths for both. Main 37a5e3a71c was merged in after that (7e018be1d6). The merge changes none of this PR's lines in src/. strace, perf, valgrind and bloaty are not in the container, so the counts come from gdb.

  • syscalls per run, ordinary input: +0 (fresh zsh install: symlink/open+openat/close/pread64/pwrite64/write = 1/10/10/4/1/2 on main and the same here. With no .zshrc, where the line is printed: 1/11/9/2/0/2 on both. 4 fixtures, gdb catch syscall)
  • heap calls inside exec, fresh zsh install: mi_malloc 5 -> 5, mi_zalloc 4 -> 4, mi_realloc 3 -> 3, mi_free 6 -> 6. With no .zshrc: 7/3/3/7 on both (gdb breakpoint counts)
  • stderr for a path that is UTF-8, with no .zshrc: the same 184 bytes with NO_COLOR=1 and the same 204 bytes with FORCE_COLOR=1 as main and 1.3.13
  • release binary: +0 bytes (.text -256, .rodata +0, llvm-size). InstallCompletionsCommand::exec is 657 bytes smaller and concat_buf_t::<u8> has a new out-of-line copy of 340 bytes. Alignment padding takes the rest.
  • instructions from the return of which() to the first symlink call: 5808 -> 5497. From the .zshrc line statement to pwrite: 1019 -> 175 (gdb stepi count, 32-byte directory, two rounds each, measured at dcad5610c4 against main 2d6d4454f3. These statements did not change after that). The loop reads $BUN_INSTALL and $HOME before the first attempt. Main read them after it failed. That is inside the 5497.
  • <BStr as Display>::fmt calls on path bytes on the data path: 3 -> 0 per fresh zsh install and 5 -> 0 when the search falls through to $HOME/.local/bin (gdb breakpoint counts, debug builds, measured at dcad5610c4). The printed line had 2 more on main and has 0 now (by reading, not counted).
  • lengths at which a location is skipped (Linux, from the tests): a bunx link path of 4095 bytes is made and 4096 is skipped. $ZDOTDIR/.zshrc of 4095 bytes is edited and 4096 is skipped. A completions path of 4095 bytes gets its line and 4096 gets none.
  • bun_core public functions: net 0 (buf_print_z_infallible removed with 0 references left, print_error_bytes added with 1 caller)

Inputs that work on main. Eleven inputs ran on both release builds: ASCII $HOME, $HOME with a trailing slash, empty $HOME, relative $HOME, $HOME=<d>/link/.., bun completions <d>/comp/, <d>//comp, <d>/./comp, $BUN_INSTALL=<d>/link/../dir, and a $HOME with no .zshrc with NO_COLOR=1 and with FORCE_COLOR=1. The exit code, every bunx link, every .zshrc and the stderr bytes are the same for all eleven. Three of them print the line.

Left as it is.

  • The completions path is still a normalized join (Fix FreeBSD runtime issues found by running the test suite #38242). For $BUN_INSTALL=<d>/link/../dir, where link is a symlink, .zshrc names <d>/dir/_bun and the file is in another directory. 1.3.14 used the path of the open file. A first version of this change wrote the directory as it was given. That changed the text for // and /./ too, so it is not here.
  • The class here is the source line of bun completions, written or printed. The messages of this file (Installed completions to ... and the error messages) still format the path through bstr::BStr. So one run can show a path that is not UTF-8 in two forms.
  • A copy of the line with U+FFFD in it, in a .zshrc whose path ends in /.bun/_bun, is accepted as done, on main and here. 1.3.13 appended a working line.
  • The .zshrc line puts the path in double quotes with no escaping, as in 1.3.x.
  • Bun cannot load a module whose path is not UTF-8. bun ./hello.js in such a directory fails with Module not found on 1.3.14, main and this branch. A JavaScript bin that bun add -g installs under such a $HOME runs on 1.3.13 and 1.4.2 and fails the same way on main and on this branch.
  • Other lines that bun prints for the user to run still format the path. The export PATH= line of bun add -g (src/install/PackageManager/updatePackageJSONAndInstall.rs:657-666) prints the bytes on 1.3.13 and U+FFFD on 1.4.2, main and this branch. Read, not run: bun patch --commit '<folder>' (src/install/PackageManager/patchPackage.rs:575-578, :1058-1065), cd <dir> of bun create (src/runtime/cli/create_command.rs:1212-1216), bun test ./<arg> (src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:2550-2554). They share no code with this file and no issue tracks them.
  • Other statements build a path through bstr::BStr: src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:3512-3520, src/runtime/cli/test/ChangedFilesFilter.rs:346-354, src/install/PackageInstall.rs:2497-2514. Append non-UTF-8 bytes instead of formatting them: run --filter output, build names, CSS module hash, shell which #46157 and pm bin, Bun.cron: append path bytes instead of formatting them #46504 cover six more.

Repair of a .zshrc from 1.4.x. The block is the line # bun completions and the [ -s "..." ] && source "..." line after it. Delete both. With one of them left, bun completions treats the file as done.

Self-review. Two rounds. The first, on the whole change: 27 concerns raised, 25 addressed. Not done: a search of crash reports for these panics (no access), and a fix for install.sh, which runs $exe completions without quotes (another bug, in another file). The second, on the printed-line commit: 17 concerns raised, 16 addressed. Rejected: keep that commit out until a maintainer asks for it. It is a separate commit, so it can be dropped. The head before it (4c96e90815) is green on build 132812. The hunks of #43067 are not removed on its branch, which conflicts with main. A comment there points here.

Related. #45710 made the same change for the bunx cache path (path_in_cache in bunx_command.rs). #46021 used concat_buf_t with a NUL part for the snapshot paths and added join_z_buf_checked. #43067 is open and has two commits for this file (1497b8df06, 0057d6a6f8): they make the symlink format calls fallible, replace the .zshrc copies and delete buf_print_z_infallible. They keep the bstr::BStr format and leave the .zshrc line as it is. One result differs: for a completions path that does not fit, #43067 prints the line, and this change prints nothing and writes no line. #46504 (bun pm bin, Bun.cron) left this file to this PR and offered the printed line as Output::flush() plus Output::error_writer().write_all(...). By its own count that form makes 3 write(2) calls where main makes 1, and one more allocation. print_error_bytes keeps 1 and allocates nothing. fmt::s needs valid UTF-8 (#37422 makes it check), so the printed line does not use it.


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

`bun completions` formatted the bunx symlink path and the `.zshrc` line
through `bstr::BStr` into fixed buffers with writers that panic. A byte
that is not UTF-8 became U+FFFD, so the command used a different path. A
value that did not fit aborted with `buf_print_z: buffer too small`. The
`.zshrc` lookup and the completions path were written into a path buffer
with no length test.

The link paths, the `.zshrc` path and the `.zshrc` line are now a
`strings::concat_buf_t` of raw bytes. The completions path is joined with
`resolve_path::join_z_buf_checked`. A location that does not fit is
skipped, like one that does not exist. `buf_print_z_infallible` has no
other caller and is removed.

The tests take the length limits from `MAX_PATH_BYTES`. On macOS the
private executable of the bunx tests is a clone, because the realpath of
a hardlink can name another link there.
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Status: fix is in this PR (#46423).

Reproduction on main 179664ea89 and on 1.4.3-canary 367d939d9, Linux x64:

mkdir -p /tmp/c/empty && cd /tmp/c
cp "$(command -v bun)" ./bun && ln -s ./bun ./bunx   # a bunx beside the executable, so the search goes on to $HOME
H=$(python3 -c "import sys; sys.stdout.buffer.write(b'/tmp/c/' + b'\xe9'*1400)")
env -i PATH=/tmp/c/empty HOME="$H" SHELL=/bin/zsh ./bun completions > /dev/null   # PATH must have no bunx
# exit 134, panic: buf_print_z: buffer too small: Error

With HOME=/tmp/c/jos\xE9 (one byte that is not UTF-8) the command exits 0, makes no $HOME/.bun/bin/bunx, and appends a source line with EF BF BD to .zshrc. With no .zshrc it prints that line with EF BF BD. Bun 1.3.14 handles these inputs.

CI on head 25421c8b84 (build 134854, finished 2026-10-29 08:05 UTC). No failure comes from this PR, and the PR is ready for review.

  • 190 jobs passed. test/cli/bun.test.ts has no failure on a Linux lane, a Windows lane or the macOS aarch64 lane (macOS aarch64: 61 pass, 3 skip, 0 fail).
  • The build is red because the 2 darwin any x64 - test-bun jobs expired. No macOS x64 agent took them in 4 attempts. A retry of these two jobs in Buildkite runs them without a new push. The macOS x64 lane passed on 867e2a6c24 (build 132948), and the merge of main after that changes none of this PR's lines in src/.
  • 6 more jobs are red, all in the test-aot-drawn lane. That lane is soft-fail. It was red on main at the merge base of this branch (37a5e3a71c, build 134732).
  • The cargo clippy job is red because of main. Its clippy step passed. Its cargo check --all-targets step compiled this branch merged into main 3a9ea00437, where src/bundler/aot/testing.rs:84 did not compile. Fix the build of bun_bundler with the test_support feature #47299 fixed that on main after the run. The job is not a required check.

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Unix bunx symlink installation and Zsh completion setup now construct paths with checked byte-buffer operations. CLI tests cover path limits, fallback locations, completion hints, and Linux paths containing invalid UTF-8 bytes. Stderr output can now write supplied bytes unchanged.

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bunx symlink paths and validation
src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs, test/cli/bun.test.ts
Unix bunx installation constructs candidate paths with checked byte concatenation and skips paths that cannot be constructed. Tests cover candidate locations, maximum path boundaries, and invalid UTF-8 paths.
Zsh completion paths and configuration
src/bun_core/fmt.rs, src/bun_core/output.rs, src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs, test/cli/bun.test.ts
Zsh completion and .zshrc paths use checked byte-buffer construction. The infallible formatting helper was removed. Guidance is printed as byte segments, and print_error_bytes writes raw bytes to stderr. Tests cover path limits, hint detection, and raw-byte paths.

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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 the restructured bunx candidate loop is byte-for-byte equivalent to the old format strings (bun_core::dirname of a root-level executable returns /, so //bunx is produced in both versions, and a trailing-slash $BUN_INSTALL still gives //bin/bunx), that concat_buf_t counts the explicit NUL so a 4095-byte link path is the longest accepted, and that buf[read..] is empty when pread_all fills the whole buffer (the /dev/zero case), which yields the hint rather than an index panic.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches only the completions installer's path construction and a dead bun_core::fmt helper, replacing panicking formatters with raw-byte concatenation that skips an over-long location; it touches no auth, crypto or injection surface. Two inline findings are posted (a pre-existing U+FFFD .zshrc line is not repaired, and the new bunx tests run serially), so the body only records the refactor-equivalence and overflow-arithmetic checks that were examined and ruled out.

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

  • 🟣 src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs — Users on Linux with a non-UTF-8 $HOME who ran bun upgrade on 1.4.0-1.4.3 keep a broken .zshrc line and get no repair and no hint from this fix. Their .zshrc holds a "# bun completions" block whose path has U+FFFD bytes; the marker check at src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs:503 short-circuits with break 'brk false, so the corrected raw-byte line is never appended and nothing is printed. The PR exists to fix exactly this population, yet for anyone who already hit the bug it is a silent no-op. Fix: when the marker is found but strings::contains(contents, completions_path) is false, print the hint (or rewrite the stale line) so the user learns the existing line is wrong.

    Why this was flagged

    Trigger: $HOME with a Latin-1 byte (e.g. /home/jos\xE9), zsh, a .zshrc written by 1.4.x bun upgrade containing "# bun completions" and a source line with EF BF BD in the path; entry through exec() :452 then :495-507. The check at :503 matches on the marker alone and breaks false, so neither the new concat at :513 nor the hint at :537 runs; stderr shows only "Installed completions to". The base behaves the same at this line, but the base also produced the broken line; this diff ships the fix for that population and leaves them in the broken state with no signal. The PR's Downsides section names a manual repair the user has no way to learn about from the tool. Population: every Linux user with a non-UTF-8 home who upgraded through 1.4.x, on every later bun upgrade. Remedy: treat marker-present-but-path-absent as needing the hint.

    Verification: Pre-existing; acknowledged in diff. The trigger is Linux, zsh, $HOME containing a non-UTF-8 byte, and a .zshrc that 1.4.0–1.4.3 populated with # bun completions and a source line whose path has EF BF BD. The marker-only match at src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs:501-507 breaks false, so the hint at :537-543 is not printed. The base fails the same way by the same route.

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#46504 fixes the same {} + bstr::BStr defect in bun pm bin and Bun.cron. It does not touch install_completions_command.rs: this PR owns bun completions.

One statement of that file was written differently in an earlier draft of #46504: the line that bun tells the user to add (install_completions_command.rs:535-541). The user pastes it into .zshrc, so it has the same reader as the line bun writes itself. The draft wrote it as bytes:

pretty_error!("<r>To enable completions, add this to your .zshrc:\n      <b>");
Output::flush();
let _ = Output::error_writer().write_all(
    &[
        b"[ -s \"".as_slice(),
        completions_path,
        b"\" ] && source \"",
        completions_path,
        b"\"\n",
    ]
    .concat(),
);

For a valid path, stderr is byte-identical to main 9634520 with NO_COLOR=1 (199 bytes) and with FORCE_COLOR=1 (219 bytes). That code path then makes 3 write(2) calls where main makes 1, and one more allocation (qemu-x86_64 -strace, release builds). Use it if it fits this PR.

…letions-raw-byte-paths

# Conflicts:
#	test/cli/bun.test.ts
The two "bunx symlink beside the executable" cases link to an executable
whose own path is as long as a path can be. A file system can limit a
symlink target to less (XFS: 1024 bytes), and symlink(2) then fails for
every candidate. The cases now run only when a probe symlink with a
target of that length can be made.

The new bunx tests run concurrently. When the temporary directory is on
another file system than the executable, they link to one shared copy.

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I reviewed the latest push and found no new bugs; the new bunx tests now run concurrently and the symlink-target probe addresses the earlier nit. Because this reworks every path the completions installer builds and the MAX_PATH_BYTES boundary tests were exercised on Linux only, a human look (plus a green macOS lane) is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • The four (dir, suffix) candidates in install_bunx_symlink against the old format strings: byte-identical results (including //bunx for an executable at /, and /.bun/bin/bunx for an empty $HOME), and concat_buf_t hands from_slice_with_nul exactly one trailing NUL.
  • join_z_buf_checked in the zsh branch wraps the same join_string_buf the old code used, so normalization is unchanged; the let-chain skips only the .zshrc step, and the "Installed completions" message still prints.
  • The .zshrc line buffer (len * 4 + 96 reserved vs 42 + 2 * len written) and the /dev/zero case that now breaks to the hint instead of panicking; buf_print_z_infallible has no remaining callers.
  • The comment at src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs:48 describes the removed formatter rather than the current code — a nit, not posted.
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The diff replaces format-based path construction in src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs with raw-byte concat_buf_t/join_z_buf_checked calls so that non-UTF-8 and overlong $HOME/$BUN_INSTALL/$ZDOTDIR/executable paths are handled without U+FFFD substitution or panics, deletes the now-unused buf_print_z_infallible from src/bun_core/fmt.rs, and adds 15 tests plus shared helpers in test/cli/bun.test.ts. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive part is NUL-terminated path assembly into fixed buffers, which I traced through the helpers and found bounds-checked. The latest commit (4c96e90) made the bunx tests concurrent and added a symlink-target-length probe, addressing the prior review's nit. Deferring rather than approving because the change is a non-trivial refactor of user-reachable path handling, the boundary tests were run on Linux only per the author, and no CODEOWNERS entry covers these files.

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When `bun completions` cannot edit `.zshrc`, it prints the line for the
user to add. That statement formatted the path through `bstr::BStr`. For
a path that is not UTF-8 the printed line had U+FFFD where the line that
bun writes to `.zshrc` has the bytes, and a copy of it in `.zshrc` was
not found again. 1.3.x printed the bytes.

The line now goes to stderr as bytes, through the new
`Output::print_error_bytes`, the stderr twin of `print_bytes`. It uses
the same writer as the text before it. A terminal in the encoding of the
file name, or `2>file`, shows the bytes. A UTF-8 terminal still shows
U+FFFD. For a path that is UTF-8 the output is the same bytes.
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The printed line (To enable completions, add this to your .zshrc: [ -s "..." ] && source "...") is part of this PR now, as its own commit (867e2a6), so it can be dropped alone.

It is the same line that bun writes to .zshrc and later looks for there, so it gets the same bytes. With bun completions <d>/comp-\xE9 and no .zshrc, a copy of the line that main prints is not found again and the next run appends a second block. A copy of the line that this branch prints is found.

The mechanism is not the flush form. Output::print_error_bytes is the stderr twin of print_bytes and goes through the same writer as the text before it. For a path that is UTF-8, stderr is byte-identical to main and to 1.3.13 (184 bytes with NO_COLOR=1, 204 with FORCE_COLOR=1), with the same count of write(2) and heap calls.

The reach is small, and the body says so: a run by hand under zsh with no .zshrc that opens for writing, and then only a terminal in the encoding of the file name, or 2>file, shows the bytes. The other messages of this file still format the path.

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LGTM — the raw-byte path assembly is sound and the earlier nit about serial bunx tests is addressed by the move to test.concurrent.

What was reviewed:

  • Every ZStr::from_slice_with_nul input in install_completions_command.rs comes from a concat_buf_t call whose last part is b"\0", and join_z_buf_checked already returns a NUL-terminated ZStr; concat_buf_t rejects a slice that does not fit (s.len() > out.len() - off), so a path plus NUL of exactly MAX_PATH_BYTES fits and one byte more is skipped, matching the test boundaries.
  • The let mut completions_path_buf = ... link in the if let chain keeps the PoolGuard alive for the whole block that borrows completions_path from it; the .zshrc line concat into buf[read..] returns Err on an empty tail (e.g. /dev/zero), which routes to the hint instead of a panic.
  • pretty_error! and the new Output::print_error_bytes both go through print_to/write_bytes on Destination::Stderr, so the hint bytes stay ordered; buf_print_infallible still has callers in RangeRequest.rs and integrity.rs, so only the truly dead buf_print_z_infallible is removed.
  • Checked the root-exe case (dirname = / gives //bunx): same as the old format_args! path, no regression.
Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the non-Windows bunx symlink search and the zsh .zshrc path/line construction in src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs to use raw-byte concatenation into fixed path buffers, adds a stderr byte writer in src/bun_core/output.rs, deletes a now-unused panicking formatter in src/bun_core/fmt.rs, and adds 15 boundary and non-UTF-8 tests in test/cli/bun.test.ts. It touches no auth, crypto, or network surface; the sensitive part is fixed-buffer length handling, and each new fallible site (concat_buf_t, join_z_buf_checked) was traced to a skip or hint rather than a panic. The Rust portion is about 100 lines and self-contained, no CODEOWNERS entry covers these files, the one third-party (coderabbit) thread was resolved by a non-author, and the only prior concern from this bot (serial bunx tests) is addressed in the current code, which decided approve.

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#	test/cli/bun.test.ts

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Code review found no issues

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