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…le is executable For a package on `nativeDependencies`, `bun install` links `.bin/<name>` into the platform package and skips the install script that replaces the package's own bin file. `bunx <package>` used that link only when the package's own file was not executable. With an executable file, as in esbuild, it ran that file instead of the platform binary.
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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 traced the other branches of the restructured find_in_project against the base: .bin entry inside the package, package file inside the package, file linking out, and non-executable file all map to the same InProject result as before, and the reuse of buf for the second realpath is sound because the first borrow ends at the if let chain.
Extended reasoning...
The change restructures the POSIX branch of BunxCommand::find_in_project in src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs so the node_modules/.bin link into an optional dependency wins before the package's own bin file is considered, drops now-unused parameters from find_without_executable_file (no other callers), and extends test/cli/install/bun-install-native-binlink.test.ts to run the bunx cases with the stub at mode 0755. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Two confirmed findings are posted inline, so a human should weigh them; this note only records what else was checked.
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src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs— Users of a native package whose platform package sits underdependencies(with os/cpu constraints) rather thanoptionalDependenciesstill get the stub run bybunx, not the platform binary, so the fix in this PR does not reach them. The installer redirects the.binlink for every dependency kind (src/install/postinstall_optimizer.rs:102-117) and skips the install script, butis_in_optional_dependencyat src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:563 reads onlyoptionalDependencies. For that shape the entry falls through and src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:513 runs the never-replaced stub. Fix: make the bunx predicate match the installer's: accept a link into any dependency kind of the package that carries os/cpu constraints, or share one helper between installer and bunx.Why this was flagged
Trigger: a package on nativeDependencies or the built-in list whose platform packages are listed under
dependencies(or peer/dev) with os/cpu fields.get_native_binlink_replacement_package_idat src/install/postinstall_optimizer.rs:103-117 loops over allresolutions('libc is checked for every kind of dependency'); so bun install links node_modules/.bin/ into that platform package and skips the package's postinstall. Thenbunx <pkg>reaches src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:498-501: the entry's realpath is in the platform package,is_in_packageis false, andis_in_optional_dependencyreturns false at src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:563-565 because it only readsoptionalDependencies. The code continues to src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:512-513 and runs the stub file whose install script was skipped, or returns NotExecutable. The base had the same predicate (base :533, :563), so the behavior is pre-existing, but the PR's stated purpose is to run the platform binary rather than the stub. Remedy: derive the bunx check from the same dependency-kind set the installer uses.Verification: pre-existing (base already takes the same route; this PR moves the
optionalDependencies-only check into the hot path but does not widen it). Trigger: platform-specific packages declared underdependencieswith os/cpu constraints. bunx only accepts the.binlink whenis_in_optional_dependencyis true, and that function reads onlyoptionalDependenciesat src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:563-568.
… os and a cpu `bun install` links the bin of a native dependency only into a package with both. An optional dependency without them that has a bin of the same name owns its `.bin` entry, so `bunx <package>` runs the package's own file, as it did before the previous commit.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
LGTM. The second commit's os/cpu gate in is_in_platform_package mirrors the installer's own redirect criterion (get_native_binlink_replacement_package_id skips any optional dependency whose arch or os is ALL), and the new bunx.test.ts case pins the negative contract for a non-platform optional dependency that won the .bin entry. The remaining inline comment is a test nit only.
Extended reasoning...
The change is confined to the POSIX branch of BunxCommand::find_in_project in src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs, reordering the .bin entry check ahead of the package's own bin file and tightening the optional-dependency acceptance to packages declaring both os and cpu, plus two test files; no security-sensitive surface is touched. I traced each cell of the resolution matrix (entry in package / in platform dependency / in unrelated package, own file executable / links out / absent) against the base and the PR's tables and they agree, including scoped and isolated-linker realpaths through rsplit_once on /node_modules/. The only cell that differs from the base and is not in the PR's table (own file not executable, .bin entry in a non-platform optional dependency) previously ran another package's binary and now reports not-executable, which is unreachable after a normal install because the installer chmods the losing package's file. The earlier concern from the prior review was addressed by commit aaefea1, no CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed paths, and the hunt ran dry.
The first mode came from the installed file. If an install ever left that file executable, both passes would have tested the same case.
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Beyond the inline findings, I diffed the restructured find_in_project against the base: outside the two behavior changes the description lists, every (entry location, own-file mode) combination lands on the same Run/Absent/NotExecutable/Unresolved result as before, and the Windows early return still precedes the new logic. I also traced is_in_platform_package for scoped platform packages under both the hoisted and the isolated (node_modules/.bun/<pkg>/node_modules/@ scope/name) layouts — rsplit_once on the last /node_modules/ yields the right parent and the dependency's package.json in both.
Extended reasoning...
The change reworks the in-project bin lookup in src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs so the .bin entry is preferred when it resolves into an os/cpu-constrained optional dependency, drops the now-unused parameters of find_without_executable_file, and adds a shared read_package_json helper; tests extend the native-binlink matrix to both stub modes and add a non-platform optional-dependency case. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Not approving because one listed behavior change ships untested (inline finding) and the lookup is core CLI dispatch logic that warrants a maintainer look.
…r folder The real path of the `.bin` entry then has no `node_modules` in it, so `bunx <package>` did not see that the entry is in a platform package. It ran the stub, or said that the stub is not executable. The optional dependency is now found by its own name in that path. Also tests that a package whose own bin file is not executable does not run the bin of an optional dependency without an os and a cpu.
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Beyond the inline finding on the /<name>/ match, I also checked scoped optionalDependencies keys (@ scope/pkg) against the new needle in is_in_platform_package — the scope slash is part of the needle, so they resolve correctly; and the 0o644 stub variant and the node_modules-as-symlink layout from the earlier rounds are now exercised by the updated tests.
Extended reasoning...
The change rewrites the POSIX tail of BunxCommand::find_in_project in src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs to prefer the .bin entry when it resolves into a platform package (an optionalDependency with os and cpu), simplifies find_without_executable_file, and extends two test files with mode and symlink variants plus a negative case. No security-sensitive surface; the remaining concern is the positional /<name>/ substring match flagged inline.
| optional.get().properties().iter().find_map(|dependency| { | ||
| let name = dependency.key.slice(); | ||
| let (parent, _) = strings::rsplit_once(real, &[b"/", name, b"/"].concat())?; | ||
| Some([parent, b"/", name, b"/package.json"].concat()) | ||
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🟡 (optional) Users whose project path has a directory named like one of the package's optionalDependencies keys lose the platform binary: with the stub at 0644 bunx now exits 126 "is not executable" where the base ran the platform bin. The find_map at src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:559-563 stops at the first key whose /<name>/ appears anywhere in the realpath, so an ancestor directory such as /home/fsevents/ matches fsevents before the real platform package and the lookup reads a package.json that does not exist. Fix: accept the entry when any optionalDependencies key resolves to a package.json with os and cpu, so an unrelated path segment cannot shadow the platform package.
Why this was flagged
A project lives under a path containing a segment equal to an optionalDependencies key of the native package, e.g. rollup lists fsevents before @ rollup/rollup-linux-x64-gnu and the user's home is /home/fsevents. bunx rollup reaches find_in_project; the .bin entry realpaths to /home/fsevents/app/node_modules/@ rollup/rollup-linux-x64-gnu/bin/rollup, which is not in the package, so is_in_platform_package runs at src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:501. The closure at src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:559-563 uses find_map and returns on the first key that matches: strings::rsplit_once(real, b"/fsevents/") succeeds with parent /home, yielding /home/fsevents/package.json. read_package_json at :579 fails to open it, so the function returns false at :571 and the platform key later in the list is never tried. With 0644 find_without_executable_file returns NotExecutable and the user gets exit 126. On the base, is_in_optional_dependency only matched the component right after the last /node_modules/, so in the 0644 case the platform binary ran. No safeguard limits the search to the node_modules tree.
Verification: The find_map at src/runtime/cli/bunx_command.rs:559-563 returns on the FIRST key whose /<name>/ occurs anywhere in real, not the key whose package actually contains the file. read_package_json at :579 fails, so :571 .unwrap_or(false) returns false and the entry is rejected at :500-503. With the stub at 0644 find_without_executable_file at :530-533 returns NotExecutable (exit 126).
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Reproduced. Fixed in #46486: every optional dependency whose name is in the path is tried now.
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- Around line 559-562: Restrict the optional dependency match in the bunx
package.json lookup to the installer’s native-bin replacement case, so unrelated
optional dependencies with os and cpu constraints do not override the requested
package’s executable. Update the zzz-last/aaa-first collision test to include os
and cpu fields and verify that platform constraints alone do not change which
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- Around line 552-553: Update the missing-bin fallback in the read_package_json
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### What does this PR do? Follow-up to #46468. It fixes the three cases that the reviews of that pull request left open, and three more that the reviews of this one found. All are in `find_in_project`, on macOS and Linux. A native dependency is a package in `nativeDependencies` of the project's package.json, or in the built-in list when the project has no such field. For those, `bun install` links `node_modules/.bin/<name>` into the platform package: a dependency with an `os` and a `cpu`. | # | Case | Own bin file | Before | After | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | A folder above the project has the name of an optional dependency that comes before the platform package | `0644` | `is not executable`, exit code 126 | platform binary | | 1 | the same | `0755` | stub | platform binary | | 2 | The package is not a native dependency. `.bin/<name>` is the bin of one of its optional dependencies, which has an `os` and a `cpu` | `0755` | bin of the dependency | own file | | 3 | `.bin/<name>` is the bin of an optional dependency without `os` and `cpu` | missing or not executable | `is not executable`, exit code 126 | `.bin/<name>`, as before #46468 | | 4 | The platform package of a native dependency is in `dependencies` | `0644` | `is not executable`, exit code 126 | platform binary | With case 3 alone, `.bin/<name>` of an unrelated package would also run in two layouts. Both keep the error of `main`: | # | Layout | Own bin file | Result | |---|---|---|---| | 5 | A folder above the project has the name of an optional dependency, and a package.json | not executable | `is not executable`, exit code 126 | | 6 | `.bin/<name>` is in `@scope/first`, and the package has the optional dependency `first` | not executable | `is not executable`, exit code 126 | | # | Change | |---|---| | 1 | `dependencies_with` returns every dependency whose name is in the real path of the link, not only the first | | 2 | `is_in_platform_package` also asks `List::is_native_dependency`. That reads the project's package.json with the parser of the installer. It looks up the `name` in the package's own package.json, so an alias works | | 3 | `find_without_executable_file` accepts a link into any optional dependency again | | 4 | `is_in_platform_package` looks in `dependencies` and `optionalDependencies`. The installer has no filter on the kind | | 5 | `dependencies_with` skips a folder that the package itself is in | | 6 | `dependencies_with` skips a folder whose parent begins with `@` | ### How did you verify your code works? - The tests in `bunx.test.ts` whose names begin with `after an install, a package whose optional dependency`, `a package that cannot run` and `the native dependency`. I ran each on a build without its fix first, and each failed there. All pass now. - `after an install, esbuild in a project with nativeDependencies <undefined | []>` covers the built-in list. It passed before too. - The rest of `bunx.test.ts` and `bun-install-native-binlink.test.ts` pass on macOS arm64, but for `should handle postinstall scripts correctly with symlinked bunx`. My machine does not let a copy of bun run from the temp folder. That test asks for `esbuild@latest`, and a request with a version does not reach this code. Linux is left to CI.
What does this PR do?
For a package on
nativeDependenciesor on the built-in list,bun installlinksnode_modules/.bin/<name>into the platform package. It also skips the install script that replaces the package's own bin file.bunxused that link only when the package's own file was not executable (#46455). When the file is executable, as in the tarball of esbuild,bunxran that stub.The lookup that makes this choice,
find_in_project, was added after 1.4.3.A platform package here is one of the package's
optionalDependenciesthat has anosand acpu.bun installlinks a bin into no other package.With the package installed in the project, on macOS and Linux:
.bin/<name>is inbunx <pkg>, bin name differs from the package name0755bunx -p <pkg> <bin>07550644node_modulesis a link to a folder of another name, hoisted linker07550644is not executable, exit code 126osandcpu07550755bunx <pkg>, bin has the name of the package.bin/<name>.bin/<name>The fix is the
is_in_platform_packagecheck infind_in_project. It now runs before the package's own file is considered. It finds the optional dependency by its name in the real path of the link, not by the text/node_modules/.Windows is not affected. There
bunxreturns the.binshim before this code.Behavior changes
.bin/<name>is inbunxgoes on to its own cachebunxruns.bin/<name>osandcpubunxruns.bin/<name>is not executable, exit code 126How did you verify your code works?
bunx runs the platform-specific bin with linker <linker> and node_modules <layout>inbun-install-native-binlink.test.tsruns with the stub at0644and0755, for both linkers, withnode_modulesa folder and a link. Without this change the0755runs fail withERROR: Using main package binand exit code 1.after an install, a package whose optional dependency got the entry in .bininbunx.test.tsis new. It covers the own file at0755and at0644.