[robobun]

Problem

• A child reads the end of its stdin only when a work pool thread is free. Two CPUs, two idle fs.createReadStream() on pipes: cat never exits after child.stdin.end() (Node: 3 ms). No user reported it (bun lint, bun fmt: write a child's stdin from the event loop #45424 met it).
• PollOrFd::close_impl (src/io/pipes.rs:108) queues close(2) on the pool and calls on_close in the same frame. Child stdin is a socketpair with no shutdown(2): that close is its end-of-file.

Fix

• On POSIX, PollOrFd closes a pipe, a socket or the pty of Bun.Terminal on the calling thread, before on_close: cat exits in 3 ms. Other fds stay on the pool.
• For pipes this reverses "by design so a blocking close() never stalls the loop" (test(spawn): wait for background pipe closes before counting fds #37207). close(2) of one: 0.25 to 5.5 µs (p50).
• Verified: test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts (20 new rows fail on main). Also spawn, shell, terminal, child_process, streams.
• Self-reviewed: 59 concerns raised, 52 addressed (Notes).

Background

• Ruling wanted, @Jarred-Sumner @dylan-conway: close in PollOrFd, or per owner? bun lint, bun fmt: write a child's stdin from the event loop #45424 closes in one owner (StaticPipeWriter::leave_fd_open). Remove libuv on Windows #42819 keeps only the pool close. Per owner: this PR closes.
• PollOrFd holds the fd of each POSIX pipe reader and writer: 8 call sites, 18 owners. REVIEW.md:33: "Prefer moving the guard into the shared helper".
• Weighed: every fd in place. File streams got 2x slower.

Downsides

• 300 stdin ends in one tick hold the loop for 56 ms (main: 8, Node: 87). Piped spawn loop: 3 to 6% slower.
• Bun.file(fd) on a lingering socket: end() blocks, as in Node.
• Not fixed: file closes (FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088, Windows Windows: close a FileSink's file before end() and Bun.write(path, stream) report it closed #46344), end() under backpressure (FileSink: end the writer before the parked promise settles #45318).

Notes

The question. Where does the close(2) of a POSIX pipe belong: in PollOrFd, on the thread that closes the handle (this PR), or in each owner (#45424 does it for one owner)? No maintainer has ruled, and this PR needs that ruling before it merges.

• No user has reported the stall. Two maintainers met it in their own PRs and fixed it in the owner.
• bun lint, bun fmt: write a child's stdin from the event loop #45424, "Who closes stdin": "On Linux a pipe writer leaves its close to the thread pool (Closer), and the child sees the end of its input only then. [...] nothing closed the descriptor and bun fmt hung. The first commit of this PR did that on every Linux lane." Its answer is StaticPipeWriter::leave_fd_open.
• Remove libuv on Windows #42819, a reply of 2026-09-20 about a shell redirect: with the pooled close "the close time had become nondeterministic, which is the real regression". Its answer is a synchronous close in that owner. It keeps Closer as the only arm of close_impl.
• The owners whose other end waits for the close are FileSink (child.stdin, a FIFO or socket sink), StaticPipeWriter (buffer stdin of Bun.spawn, spawnSync and the shell, fd 4 of the install security scanner), Bun.Terminal, every reader on cancel() or destroy(), and FileResponseStream.
• Per owner, each of them needs its own change. The switch that bun lint, bun fmt: write a child's stdin from the event loop #45424 uses (close_fd) exists on the buffered writer only. The streaming writer under FileSink has none on main.
• If the answer is per owner, this PR closes. Its test rows carry over, and the edits move to those owners.
• REVIEW.md:33 and :63 ask for the fix in the shared helper. close_fd = false and a cleared CLOSE_HANDLE stay an owner's way out of it (the shell's IOWriter and IOReader, bun lint, bun fmt: write a child's stdin from the event loop #45424).
• Windows pipes are not affected: BaseWindowsPipeWriter::close_impl and WindowsBufferedReader::close_impl call uv_close on the loop thread (read from the source, not run).

The rule. close(2) runs on the calling thread, before on_close, for a pipe, a socket and the pty of Bun.Terminal. Every other fd goes to Closer on the work pool, as on main, because its close(2) can block.

fd	main	this PR
the poll of a writer: the stdin socketpair of a child, a FIFO or socket sink, the pty of Bun.Terminal	pool (macOS: in place when the poll is writable and nonblocking)	in place
the pipe of a reader, with or without a poll: proc.stdout, child.stdout, shell and CLI pipes, the pty of Bun.Terminal, a FIFO or socket from Bun.file()	pool	in place
the FIFO or socket body of a Bun.serve response	pool	in place
the fd of a writer without a poll: a file that was written	pool	pool
the tty of a FileSink (its poll has FilePollFlag::Tty)	pool	pool
the regular file of a reader, and a memfd	pool	pool
a tty or another device that Bun.file() or Bun.serve opened	pool	pool

• A writer: close_impl keeps its signature and reads the kind from the poll. src/io/PipeWriter.rs and FileSink.rs are not touched.
• A reader: every close of its fd is the new PosixBufferedReader::close_fd. It calls PollOrFd::close_as with PosixFlags::is_pipe(): not a memfd, and not NOT_A_PIPE. A reader cannot ask its poll, because a reader that has not read yet has none, and a device from Bun.file() has the same poll as a FIFO.
• FileReader sets NOT_A_PIPE from the fstat that it already does. The flag is bit 13. Remove libuv on Windows #42819 takes bit 12 (SHARES_POSITION), so neither rebase can give two flags one bit.
• FileResponseStream clears CLOSE_HANDLE and closes its fd in Drop. It now closes through close_as. Its callers say FileType::Pipe for a character device too, so one fstat tells a FIFO from a device, and only for a body that can be polled.
• The macOS special case of main (kqueue) is inside the new rule.
• Debug builds check each close against fstat: no regular file in place, no FIFO or socket on the pool. They also assert that no poll of a reader goes through close_impl. A new close site that skips the reader's rule fails the debug and ASAN lanes.
• A rule by who made the fd (bun or the user) gives the same answer except for a FIFO or socket from Bun.file().

The end state with #46088. The two PRs do not conflict in text. They state their rule in different words, so here is one table.

close, and how the owner reports it	main	this PR	#46088	both
a pipe, a socket, the pty of Bun.Terminal	pool, report first	in place	as main	in place
a written file, writer.end() or close() returns	pool, report first	as main	in place	in place
a written file, the promise of Bun.write(dest, stream)	pool, report first	as main	pool, then the promise settles	pool, then the promise settles
the tty of a sink, end()	pool, report first	as main	as main	not decided
a file that was read, at its end or cancel()	pool, report first	as main	as main	not decided
a tty or device from Bun.file(), read	pool, report first	as main	as main	not decided

• One principle covers both: an owner reports "closed" after close(2). A close(2) that cannot block runs in place (this PR). For one that can block, a promise waits for the pool, and a return value cannot wait (FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088 closes in place there and gives the cost in its Downsides).
• The last three rows still report first after both PRs.

Why not every fd. The first shape of this branch closed every fd in place, except a file that was written. A self-review measured what that costs where nothing waits for the close, and I confirmed each number:

• Bun.file(path).stream() of 100 bytes, read to the end, taskset -c 2,3: 9.4 µs on main, 19 µs there (6 of 6 pairs).
• reader.cancel() of Bun.file("/dev/input/event0").stream(): 0.001 ms on main, 31.8 ms there.
• A memfd is freed at its close: 1.3 ms at 16 MiB, 24 ms at 256 MiB.
• A serial tty waits at its last close for output that is not sent yet (closing_wait, 30 s, drivers/tty/tty_port.c).
• Also weighed: a thread of its own for Closer. It ends the wait for files too. It does not replace this change: the owner still reports before the close, so every open: 0 row below still races.

History.

• Before wip use wrapper for managing process  #8456 the subprocess code closed its pipes in place (bun.sys.close(fd)). wip use wrapper for managing process  #8456 (c9fe57f, first in 1.0.31) added closeImpl with the pool close. It gives no reason for pipes. Its one comment at the site is about kqueue, which loses an event when another thread closes the fd.
• "By design so a blocking close() never stalls the loop" is from the body of test(spawn): wait for background pipe closes before counting fds #37207, a test-only PR that added waits for the pool close. No comment or doc on main says it. This PR takes those waits out again.
• The first revision of FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088 (41dbee2) closed every POSIX handle in close_impl. FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088 now changes only a FileSink on a file. This PR is the pipe half of that commit.

Repro 1: no load, no variable. The pool has one thread for each CPU and not less than two (Node: four). On two CPUs, for example a container with a limit of two, two fs streams that wait for data hold both.

// taskset -c 2,3 bun idle-streams.mjs   (mkfifo a.fifo b.fifo first)
import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
import fs from "node:fs";
const fifos = ["a.fifo", "b.fifo"];
const keepOpen = fifos.map(path => fs.openSync(path, "r+"));
const streams = fifos.map(path => fs.createReadStream(path).on("data", () => {}));
await new Promise(done => setTimeout(done, 200));
const child = spawn("cat", [], { stdio: ["pipe", "ignore", "inherit"] });
const t0 = performance.now();
child.stdin.end("x");
const exited = await Promise.race([
  new Promise(done => child.on("exit", () => done(true))),
  new Promise(done => setTimeout(done, 5000, false)),
]);
console.log(exited ? `cat exited after ${(performance.now() - t0).toFixed(1)} ms` : "cat is still alive after 5 s");
process.exit(0);

• bun 1.4.2 and main: cat is still alive after 5 s, 9 of 9 runs.
• This PR: 2.8 to 3.9 ms (6 runs). Node 26.3: 2.1 to 3.0 ms.
• The same setup with a FIFO as the body of a Bun.serve response, and a client that drops the connection: on main the writer of the FIFO (yes) is alive after 5 s with pendingRequests at 0 (6 of 6, a fetch handler and routes). On this PR it exits after 2.1 to 12.8 ms.

Repro 2: a busy pool. UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=2 bun stdin-eof.mjs, or no variable on two CPUs.

import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
import { pbkdf2 } from "node:crypto";
for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) {
  // Two jobs of about 1.2 s keep a pool of two busy.
  const jobs = [1, 2].map(() => new Promise(done => pbkdf2("password", "salt", 3_000_000, 64, "sha512", done)));
  const child = spawn("cat", [], { stdio: ["pipe", "ignore", "inherit"] });
  const exited = new Promise(done => child.on("exit", done));
  await new Promise(done => setImmediate(done));
  const t0 = performance.now();
  child.stdin.end("x");
  await exited;
  console.log((performance.now() - t0).toFixed(1), "ms from child.stdin.end() to the exit of cat");
  await Promise.all(jobs);
}

Release builds of main (6292c65) and of this PR, Node 26.3, Linux x64, 12 cores. Five rounds, the runtimes in turn, 15 samples each.

ms	main	this PR	Node 26.3
child.stdin.end() to the exit of cat	1153 to 1431	0.5 to 13.5	0.3 to 19.2
child.stdout.destroy() to the exit of yes	1174 to 1383 (13), 5.8 and 53.7 (2)	0.4 to 6.3	0.4 to 12.7
reader.cancel() of proc.stdout to the exit of yes	1174 to 1850 (12), 3.8 to 15.2 (3)	0.2 to 7.6
proc.terminal.close() to the SIGHUP of cat	1131 to 1610	0.3 to 5.6
idle pool: child.stdin.end() to the exit of cat (25 samples)	0.9 to 6.8	0.3 to 3.6	0.3 to 10.1

• The fast samples on main are runs where a pool thread took the close before it took a pbkdf2 job.
• A synchronous spawn waits on the calling thread. With the pool parked, Bun.spawnSync({ stdin: bytes, timeout: 2000 }) on the pipe route ends in the timeout on main and returns on this PR. On Linux that route needs BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DISABLE_MEMFD.
• The fds pile up too. Same busy pool, ulimit -n 1024, a loop of child_process.spawn("true") that waits for each exit (three pipes, nothing read): main fails with EMFILE at call 337 (3 of 3 runs). This PR makes 2,000 calls with 6 fds open at most.
• After a batch of 16 children whose streams have ended and who have exited, under CPU load, the highest fd is above the baseline in 21 and 29 of 100 rounds on main (by up to 47) and in 0 of 100 on this PR. That is what the waits of test(spawn): wait for background pipe closes before counting fds #37207 cover.

The new tests. test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts, group "a pipe is closed when its owner reports closed". Each script runs with UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=2 and parks each pool thread in readFile() of a FIFO of its own, so a close that waits for the pool cannot run. A row has the fds that are still open where the owner reports, and whether the child exits while the pool is parked (a 2 s deadline ends a run in which it does not).

row	main	this PR
proc.stdin.end()	1 open, cat waits	0, exits
child.stdin.end(), at 'close'	1 open, waits	0, exits
child.stdin.destroy(), at 'close'	1 open, waits	0, exits
proc.stdin of a child that has exited	1 open	0
$`cat < ${bytes}`	waits	ends
Bun.spawn({ stdin: bytes }) (no memfd)	cat waits	exits
Bun.spawnSync({ stdin: bytes }) (no memfd)	ends in the timeout, 2 open	returns, 0 open
Bun.spawnSync(), stdout and stderr (no memfd)	2 open	0
proc.stdout and proc.stderr, read to the end	2 open	0
reader.cancel() while yes writes	1 open, yes waits	0, exits
child.stdout.destroy() before a read	1 open, waits	0, exits
child_process.spawn(), nothing read, at 'close'	3 open	0
Bun.file(fifo).writer().end()	1 open	0
Bun.file(fifo).stream(), reader.cancel()	1 open	0
Bun.serve(), a FIFO as the body, the client drops	1 open, yes waits	0, exits
terminal.close()	2 open, cat waits	0, exits
Bun.file(socket).stream(), reader.cancel()	1 open	0
Bun.file(socket).writer().end()	1 open	0
the same two when bun's dup is the last descriptor	1 open, the other end reads EAGAIN	0, it reads the end
Linux: Bun.file(tty).stream(), reader.cancel()	1 open	1 open
Linux: Bun.file(tty).stream(), read to the end (Ctrl-D)	1 open	1 open
Linux: Bun.serve(), a tty as the body	1 open	1 open
Linux: Bun.file("/dev/ptmx").writer().end()	1 open	1 open

• Main, debug and release: 6 of the 7 tests fail. The debug run shows the 20 rows that differ. This PR: 7 pass, debug and release.
• The four Linux rows are the other side of the rule. They fail on a build that closes a tty in place.
• Each clause of the rule has a row that fails without it. I checked with a debug build that takes one clause out at a time:

clause taken out	rows that fail
the FilePollFlag::Tty test in close_impl	Bun.file("/dev/ptmx").writer().end()
NOT_A_PIPE in is_pipe()	both Bun.file(tty).stream() rows
the reader's rule in close_without_reporting	child_process.spawn(), nothing read. Bun.file(tty).stream(), read to the end
the reader's rule in close_handle	child.stdout.destroy(). Bun.file(tty).stream(), reader.cancel()
the fstat in FileResponseStream::drop, pipe always	Bun.serve(), a tty as the body
the fstat in FileResponseStream::drop, pipe never	Bun.serve(), a FIFO as the body
MEMFD in is_pipe()	no row. The debug assertion of close_as stops bun install with a lifecycle script (bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts)

• The group is not concurrent. Each script starts a debug build and parks a pool, and six of them at once came close to the 5 s timeout here.
• The first Bun.spawnSync of a process makes an event loop that stays. Each script makes one before it counts, because fstat on macOS can report a kqueue as a FIFO (from the source, not run here).
• Not pinned by a row: a file that was written stays on the pool. FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088 changes that, and a row here would contradict its rows.

Other test changes.

• The waits of test(spawn): wait for background pipe closes before counting fds #37207 are removed from spawn-streaming-stdin.test.ts and spawn-streaming-stdout.test.ts: both files are as before that PR.
• Six tests lose the slack that the pool close needed, so that they fail again if a pipe goes back to the pool: spawn-stdin-pipe-fd-leak (toBe(0)), spawn-pipe-read-error-leak, spawn-stdin-readable-stream-edge-cases and shell-pipe-read-fault (one look at the fds, no poll), spawnSync and terminal (no retry for the fds).
• A comment that names the pool close is updated in spawn-pipe-start-error.
• "whose registration fails closes the dup exactly once" no longer parks the pool: the close it watches is not on the pool any more. With the guard it protects taken out (close_without_closing_fd() in PosixStreamingWriter::start), the second close gets EBADF in the same call. A debug or ASAN build asserts there and the test fails. A release build does not notice: that is a loss. The test still sees a second close that comes later, on every build.
• Not changed: the four Bun.sleep(10) waits for the fd leak checker in filesink.test.ts. Two of them are for a sink on a file, which still closes on the pool.

What a close costs on the calling thread. clock_gettime around close(2), Linux 6.1, µs.

fd	p50	p99
pipe, either end, the other end idle	0.25	0.32
socketpair end, peer idle	0.53	0.68
pty master, slave open	1.08	1.56
pipe write end, a child blocked in read()	3.43	246
socketpair end, a child blocked in read()	5.49	276
pty master, a child blocked in read() of the slave	26.4	2,115
/dev/null, for scale	0.19	0.20

• The p99 with a blocked child is the closing thread that loses its CPU to the child it wakes.
• terminal.close() as a whole, with cat as the session leader of the pty, 4 runs of 200 calls: p50 208 to 448 µs on main, 516 to 582 µs on this PR. p90 is 870 to 986 and 836 to 1,064 µs.
• A burst: 300 cat children wait, and one tick calls child.stdin.end() for each. 12 runs in turn, median (range), ms.

	main	this PR	Node 26.3
until the loop runs a timer again	8.1 (3.2 to 40.5)	55.9 (20.4 to 67.7)	87.4 (30.4 to 126.8)
until every cat has exited	33.8 (18.0 to 59.7)	57.6 (20.5 to 74.2)	87.5 (35.7 to 126.8)

• On main the pool threads make those closes in parallel. Here one thread makes them, and each close wakes a child.
• A socket with SO_LINGER is the one pipe whose close(2) can block. A parent gave bun a TCP socket with l_linger of 5 s and a peer that does not read. Bun.file(fd).writer(), 256 KiB written, bun's dup is the last descriptor: end() holds the JS thread for 5,085 ms on this PR and 0.1 ms on main, where a pool thread waits. Node's net.Socket({ fd }).destroy() holds its loop for 5,095 ms. A guard would be one getsockopt(SO_LINGER) before the close of a socket. It is not built.

What the change costs per call. A ptrace syscall counter that splits by thread, release builds, 1,000 operations.

per piped spawn (stdin ended, stdout read to the end)	main	this PR
close(2) of bun's two pipe ends, on the JS thread / on pool threads	0 / 2.00	2.00 / 0
futex on the JS thread	2.31	0.78
syscalls on pool threads	7.38	0
syscalls on all threads	50.1	42.9
pool threads that exist after the 1,000 spawns	5	0

• One Box<Closer> (24 bytes) and one entry in the pool's queue for each pipe close are gone.
• Not moved: a file stream makes the same calls on both builds. Per 1,000 × Bun.file(path).stream(): 1,054 openat, 1,054 fstat and 2,000 pread64 on the JS thread, and the close of each file on a pool thread.
• FileResponseStream::drop makes one more fstat for a body that can be polled (a FIFO, a socket, a device), and none for a file.
• Release binary, text: 107,661,952 to 107,662,464 bytes (512 more). data and bss do not change.
• Not measured: instructions. perf and valgrind are not installed.

Wall clock, main against this PR. Pairs in alternating order, median (range), µs for one operation.

	main	this PR	PR slower in
piped spawn of true, 12 CPUs	1148 (975 to 1218)	1180 (1090 to 1246)	8 of 10
piped spawn, taskset -c 2,3	820 (709 to 922)	868 (766 to 935)	8 of 10
piped spawn, taskset -c 2	419 (408 to 459)	413 (401 to 427)	2 of 10
file stream of 70 KB, taskset -c 2,3	15.3 (14.5 to 17.0)	16.6 (14.0 to 17.3)	5 of 8
file stream of 70 KB, 12 CPUs	120 (89 to 171)	131 (93 to 185)	6 of 8

• The piped spawn rows move between sessions. Earlier pairs of builds with the same pipe closes gave 0 to 17% on two CPUs and 0 to 6% on 12.
• In one such session a job for the pool that nothing waits for, queued before each spawn (fs.promises.stat("/")), made both builds faster on two CPUs, with no pipe at all. So a pool thread that wakes up before vfork is what is faster, and the queued close of main is such a wake-up.
• The reason, measured on this VM: a thread that sleeps on an idle CPU wakes up after 783 µs (p50), and after 18 µs when the CPU is kept awake. Main's pool wake-ups keep CPUs awake. This is a KVM guest with up to 50% steal time. A machine whose idle CPUs wake fast was not measured.
• bench/snippets/spawn.mjs (spawnSync of echo hi), three runs each on an earlier pair of builds, ms for one iteration: main 0.99 to 1.22, main again 1.01 to 1.09, this PR 1.10 to 1.15, bun 1.4.2 1.04 to 1.10, Node 2.33 to 2.77.

Not measured.

• macOS and FreeBSD: compiled (bun run rust:check-all, 12 of 12 targets), not run. CI is the first run of the new rows on macOS.
• A machine that is not a VM.

Order with the open PRs. "No conflict" is git merge-tree of this branch with the head of that PR.

PR	text	what the second one to land does
#45424 (Jarred-Sumner)	no conflict	leave_fd_open is then a second way to the same close. It goes, or its doc comment changes ("By default the thread pool closes it").
#42819 (dylan-conway)	112 files conflict with main today. This PR adds pipes.rs, FileResponseStream.rs and filesink.test.ts	It keeps the pool close as the only arm of close_impl, for pipes too. The two cannot both land as they are: the ruling decides.
#46528 (Jarred-Sumner)	no conflict	Nothing. It does not change FileResponseStream::drop.
#46088	no conflict	The two rowsWithParkedPool helpers of filesink.test.ts become one. The table above is the end state.
#44031	2 files conflict with main today, none added	Its release_on_error closes a reader through handle.close(). It must call close_fd. The debug assertion fails its tests until it does.
#45318	no conflict	Nothing. Until it lands, await proc.stdin.end() after a backed-up write continues with the pipe open, and the pipe is closed one turn of the loop later.
#43794	no conflict	Nothing. It replaces the four sleeps that this PR leaves.
#35993	6 files conflict with main today, none added	Nothing for this change.
#44499, #41621	2 and 3 files conflict with main today, none added	Nothing. NOT_A_PIPE comes from fstat, not from whether the kernel can poll the fd.
#45002	no conflict	Nothing. It moves the close earlier in the life of the stream. This PR makes that close happen when it is asked for.

Not changed here.

• A file still waits for the pool to be closed. Bun.serve closes the file of a response through Closer (FileRoute.rs:307, and FileResponseStream for a regular file). With a pool of two busy, 3,909 of 8,000 × Bun.file(path).stream() failed with EMFILE on both builds (fd limit 4,096, an earlier pair of builds). A written file is FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088.
• A pty that reaches bun through Bun.file(), for example /dev/pts/3 or /dev/ptmx: its other side waits for the pool, as on main. fstat cannot tell it from a serial line.
• The pool can still be held by other work: an fs read of a pipe that has no data is what parks it in the tests above. Run Bun.secrets and blocking getaddrinfo work on their own thread pools #40642 gives blocking getaddrinfo a pool of its own. This PR takes the pipe closes out of the set of things that wait.
• The stdio socketpair gets no shutdown(2) (spawn_process.rs:850), so a close is still the only end-of-file.
• Windows: files report before uv_fs_close completes (Windows: close a FileSink's file before end() and Bun.write(path, stream) report it closed #46344 is the FileSink sibling).

Self-review. Two rounds, 59 concerns, 52 addressed. The first round changed the shape: close only pipes in place (see "Why not every fd"). The second round added the one close for readers, the debug assertions, FileResponseStream, 10 rows and the costs of a burst, of terminal.close() and of a lingering socket. Not taken:

• A row that pins a written file to the pool: FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088 changes that.
• The closes of regular files in Bun.serve and in the file reader (two concerns): another change. They are listed above.
• DNS lookups as a second thing that holds the pool (two concerns), and a count of upstream Node tests: I did not reproduce them, so they are not claims of this text.
• One test helper for this PR and FileSink: close a file before end() or Bun.write() reports it closed #46088: the second one to land does it.

Suites on a debug and ASAN build.

• filesink.test.ts and the nine other test files of this diff pass. One run of filesink.test.ts lost an older test to the 5 s timeout ("a writer's FileSink class can't be constructed from JS", 2.1 to 2.7 s alone on main and on this PR).
• 134 files: test/js/bun/spawn, test/js/bun/shell, test/js/bun/terminal, test/js/node/child_process, test/js/web/streams, and the file, stdio and Bun.serve file tests of test/js/bun/util, test/js/bun/io, test/js/bun/http and test/js/node/process, and bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts. 119 pass. No debug assertion of close_as or close_impl fails in any log.
• 14 of the 15 other files were run again beside a debug build of main at the same commit. None has a test that fails only on this PR. shell-hang gives each of six debug builds 700 ms: 26 of 36 tests time out on main and 30 of 36 on this PR, and its fixtures take 328 to 498 ms alone on main and 373 to 419 ms on this PR. The kernel kills spawn-pipe-leak for memory, on main too in an earlier run.
• The machine had up to 50% steal time. Files that start many debug builds at once time out at random on it.

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^{Updated 2:42 PM PT - Oct 24th, 2026}

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Status

How I reproduced it, on Linux x64:

• taskset -c 2,3 bun idle-streams.mjs (the script is in the PR body, "Repro 1"). On bun 1.4.2 and on main (6292c65), cat is still alive 5 s after child.stdin.end(). On this branch it exits after 2.8 to 3.9 ms.
• bun bd test test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts -t "a pipe is closed when its owner reports closed". With the src/ of main, 6 of the 7 tests fail. With this branch, 7 pass.

PR: #46800. It needs a ruling from a maintainer before it merges: close in PollOrFd, or per owner.

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Walkthrough

POSIX descriptor classification now informs close routing in PollOrFd and reader paths. Several leak tests now check descriptor counts without waiting for asynchronous closes. Filesink tests add coverage for close behavior across pipes, FIFOs, sockets, terminals, and TTYs.

Changes

POSIX descriptor close routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Descriptor classification and close routing src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs, src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/io/lib.rs, src/io/pipes.rs	OpenedFileBlob records when a descriptor is not a FIFO or socket. PollOrFd::close_as accepts a pipe flag and uses direct closure for pipe-like descriptors on non-Windows platforms; other descriptors use Closer.
Reader close paths src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs	PipeReader close paths use close_fd with the reader’s pipe classification. On Unix, FileResponseStream::drop calls close_as for a valid reader descriptor.
Descriptor close tests test/js/bun/shell/*, test/js/bun/spawn/*, test/js/bun/terminal/terminal.test.ts, test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts	Leak checks now measure descriptors immediately rather than polling for asynchronous closure. Filesink tests add descriptor-count and child-exit checks across pipes, FIFOs, terminals, sockets, and TTYs.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7fd08

The close behavior has no established blocker. Making the new tests concurrent would align them with the test-suite guidance; this is a bounded follow-up rather than a merge blocker.

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Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: synchronous POSIX pipe closure in PollOrFd before reporting the handle closed.
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Review comments at @test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts:
- Line 765: Update the test suite declaration for “a pipe is closed when its
owner reports closed” to use the concurrent modifier while preserving the
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• src/io/PipeReader.rs
• src/io/lib.rs
• src/io/pipes.rs
• src/runtime/server/FileResponseStream.rs
• src/runtime/webcore/FileReader.rs
• test/js/bun/shell/shell-pipe-read-fault.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-pipe-read-error-leak.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-pipe-start-error.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdin-pipe-fd-leak.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-stdin-readable-stream-edge-cases.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-streaming-stdin.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn-streaming-stdout.test.ts
• test/js/bun/spawn/spawnSync.test.ts
• test/js/bun/terminal/terminal.test.ts
• test/js/bun/util/filesink.test.ts

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[claude]

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

Beyond the inline findings, I also traced the new NOT_A_PIPE flag: it is set only in FileReader.rs from the fstat result before the tty-as-nonblocking-pipe rewrite, so ttys and other character devices from Bun.file() keep the pool close, memfds are excluded via MEMFD, and every reader fd close in PipeReader.rs now routes through close_fd (no stray handle.close() on a reader remains). The FileResponseStream Drop fallthrough still pool-closes self.fd when the reader never held the fd, matching the previous behavior there.

Extended reasoning...

The change moves close(2) of pipes, sockets and the Bun.Terminal pty onto the calling thread in PollOrFd::close_as before on_close fires, touching the shared POSIX pipe reader/writer close path used by subprocess stdio, the shell, Bun.file streams and Bun.serve file bodies, with no security-sensitive surface. The inline findings and the author's own request for a maintainer ruling on where the close belongs mean a human should decide this one.