[robobun]

Problem

• On POSIX, one lookup from a missing <dir>\ marks the real <dir> as not found. Files in <dir> then get a parent's copy of a package, a registry request, or MODULE_NOT_FOUND.
• In the other order <dir>\ resolves as <dir>, where Node throws.
• Cause: dir_info_cached_maybe_log (src/resolver/resolver.rs:4465) stripped / and \ for the key, and the miss path opened the raw path.

Fix

• Resolver::dir_cache_key and the miss walk read only native separators, so <dir>\ and <dir> have separate entries.
• A directory named pro\j then loads. Its file paths and real paths (join_in_dir_checked) and its package.json path keep the backslash.
• Callers of bust_dir_cache pass an unstripped path. A source lint keeps that.
• Verified: new tests in seven files fail on main. Self-reviewed: 121 concerns raised, 110 addressed.

Background

• dir_cache and fs.entries map a directory to its DirInfo and listing, process-wide. A missing directory stays NOT_FOUND until bust_dir_cache.
• Joins with a text part (a specifier, a package.json field) still read \ as a separator.
• Considered: open the stripped path on a miss. Then <dir>\ is always <dir>, unlike Node.

Downsides

• Behaviour change on POSIX: <dir>\ is a missing directory when it reaches the cache as spelled. With <dir> cached it resolved before. Now it can ask the registry.
• Cost without a backslash: 69 to 131 more instructions at the first lookup of each file, symlink and package.json. text +256 bytes.
• Some answers for a path with a backslash are still not Node's. The Notes list each one.

Notes

Reproduction

No user reported this, and no issue tracks it. It was found by inspection while a fuzz report on #41491 was checked. A node_modules directory in the cwd keeps auto-install off.

mkdir -p /tmp/pz/plugins/node_modules/plug /tmp/pz/node_modules && cd /tmp/pz
echo 'module.exports = 1' > plugins/node_modules/plug/index.js
cat > order.cjs <<'EOF'
const B = String.fromCharCode(92), cwd = process.cwd();
const r = e => { try { return require.resolve("plug", { paths: [e] }); } catch (x) { return "THREW " + x.code; } };
console.log(1, r(cwd + "/plugins" + B));
console.log(2, r(cwd + "/plugins"));
console.log(3, r(cwd + "/plugins/"));
EOF
bun order.cjs; node order.cjs

	1: plugins\	2: plugins	3: plugins/
Node v26.3.0	THREW MODULE_NOT_FOUND	/tmp/pz/plugins/node_modules/plug/index.js	the same file
1.4.3, main 7942008	THREW MODULE_NOT_FOUND	THREW MODULE_NOT_FOUND	THREW MODULE_NOT_FOUND
this PR	THREW MODULE_NOT_FOUND	/tmp/pz/plugins/node_modules/plug/index.js	the same file

With call 2 first, 1.4.3 and main print the file for all three calls. Node and this PR print the file, THREW MODULE_NOT_FOUND, the file.

What <dir> answers on main after the stray lookup depends on the layout:

• A parent node_modules has the package: that copy loads, with no error. The tests have a nested and a hoisted copy for this.
• No node_modules at or above the parent of <dir>, default auto-install: bun asks the registry for the installed package (1 request, measured below).
• Otherwise MODULE_NOT_FOUND, also for require(dir) and for a bare require in a file of <dir>.

The entry stays until something calls bust_dir_cache for <dir>. The retry in VirtualMachine::_resolve drops the directory of the importer, or the directory of an absolute specifier. So Bun.resolveSync(id, dir), a createRequire lookup or a bare import from a file in <dir> repairs it for all callers. require.resolve(id, { paths: [dir] }), Module._resolveFilename with paths and require(dir) do not. The bundler has no retry.

Routes that write the wrong entry on main (one test row each): require.resolve and Module._resolveFilename with paths, Bun.resolveSync, Bun.resolve, import.meta.resolveSync, createRequire(dir + "\\/x.js"), require(dir + "\\"), import(dir + "\\"), a lookup in a Worker, and a Bun.build() of a file that requires dir + "\\". The caches are one per process. The string can come from outside the program: require(path.join(root, name)) with a name that ends with a backslash passes a check for / and ...

Answers for P = D + "\\" where D\ does not exist. Each cell is: P first, D after it, P after D.

entry point	main	this PR	Node v26.3.0
require.resolve(id, { paths: [P] })	throws, throws, found	throws, found, throws	throws, found, throws
Module._resolveFilename(id, parent, false, { paths: [P] })	throws, throws, found	throws, found, throws	throws, found, throws
createRequire(P + "/x.js").resolve(id)	throws, found, found	throws, found, throws	throws, found, throws
require.resolve(P), require(P)	throws, throws, found	throws, found, throws	throws, found, throws
import(P + "/index.js")	found, found, found	found, found, found	found, found, found
Bun.resolveSync(id, P)	throws, found, found	throws, found, throws

Node splits a paths entry at / only on POSIX: Module._nodeModulePaths.

What changed

• The key: dir_info_cached_maybe_log derives its key with Resolver::dir_cache_key, and assert_valid_cache_key tests the native separator (a POSIX key can end with a backslash). dir_cache_key is bun_paths::string_paths::without_trailing_slash_native: on Windows the old without_trailing_slash_windows_path, on POSIX a trim of / that keeps the root. src/node_path/lib.rs had that trim as a private function since fs.realpath: a backslash is part of the file name on POSIX, and each variant reads its path as Node does #45423 and now calls the shared one. The maps already hash a key with only the native separator trimmed (BSSMapInner::key_hash), so on main one failed open wrote the two caches under two keys.
• The walk: dir_info_cached_miss took each parent with Dirname::dirname, which cuts at \ too. A real we\ird resolved one time (through the fallback for a missing start directory) and then threw, because its entry had no parent. Dirname::dirname_native cuts at native separators. Dirname::dirname stays for load_as_file, tsconfig extends and bun create.
• load_extension kept the caller's spelling as the path of the entry. After require(dir + "\\/messages"), require(dir + "/messages") failed with ENOENT reading "<dir>\/messages.js". It now takes the caller's spelling only when its directory part has the key of the entry's directory. Otherwise it joins the directory of the entry and the file name. A path without a backslash gets the same bytes as before, and so does every path on Windows.
• Consistency edits with the same rule: bust_dir_cache, dir_info_for_resolution, the Windows root in dir_info_cached_miss, and RealFS::read_directory_with_iterator.
• Eight callers stripped a path with without_trailing_slash_windows_path before bust_dir_cache. They now pass the path. Five get the path from a loose join or from normalize_slashes_only, so it never ends with a backslash and nothing changes: VirtualMachine.rs, transpiler.rs (two), filesystem_router.rs (two). Three get it from the watcher: hot_reloader.rs (two) and hot_reload_event.rs of the bake dev server. For these, a change in a watched directory whose name ends with \ now drops the entry of that directory. On main no bust reached its listing, and bun --hot did not see a package.json that was created there. hot.test.ts has the test.
• bust_dir_cache_and_parent (the retry of the bundler in the dev server) busts three keys. The first is the directory of the import path as load_as_file reads it: for /a/fr\/late.ts the native dirname is /a/fr\, and load_as_file lists /a/fr. The second is the stripped path, the key of main. The third is the native key of the path, when that is another key: the lookup of a directory /a/we\ stores its entry under /a/we\. The first commit of this PR took the directory natively, and the dev server did not find a file behind an absolute fr\/ import after the file was created. A later commit busted only the stripped path, and an import of /a/we\ stayed Could not resolve after the directory was created. bundle.test.ts has a test for each.
• RealFS::read_directory_with_iterator has callers outside the resolver: bun run --filter and --workspaces (filter_arg.rs), bun install (PackageManager.rs), and the bun test scanner. With an empty packages/x\ next to packages/x, bun run --filter '*' go failed with error: No workspace packages matched the filter "*" and now runs x. With a packages/x\/package.json and no packages/x, it failed with error: FileNotFound and now runs the other packages. filter-workspace.test.ts has a row for each.
• A name in a listed directory. With the native walk a directory such as pro\j gets a DirInfo. On main the walk failed for it, so the joins below it did not run. fs::join_in_dir_checked (src/resolver/lib.rs) is the join for a name in a directory that is open under a given path. On POSIX, when the directory or the name has a backslash, it is the strict join_z_buf_checked::<platform::Posix>. Otherwise, and on Windows, it is the loose call that the site had, with the same buffer. It serves five joins:
  • the path of a file that load_as_file finds by its exact name, and the path of an index file (load_index_with_extension)
  • the real path of a directory below a symlink (dir_info_uncached), and of a file in it (finalize_result)
  • the lstat of an entry (RealFS::kind)
• The path of a package.json follows the same rule when the resolver reads the file through the fd of its directory (PackageJSON::intern_path). It uses the strict FileSystem::join of package_json.rs, which has no limit of its own: the limit stays the one of abs_checked, 4,096 bytes. bun run --filter reads a package.json by its joined path with no fd, so it keeps the loose path.
• What 07737d7, an earlier head of this PR, did without that join: bun run <script> in pro\j printed ENOENT and exited 0 (main: exit 1). Bun.build dropped a module that sideEffects lists. A module in pro\j below a symlinked directory failed with ENOENT reading "<real>/pro/j/x.js", or loaded that other file when it existed. A review on GitHub found the first one, and the self-review the other two.
• bun run <script> (run_command.rs): the directory of the script and the PATH entries are stripped of native separators only (path_entry_dir). On Windows the strips are the ones of before. A package in proj\ or pro\j\ runs its script in its own directory and finds its own bins. On main the script of proj\ did not start (ENOENT, exit 0).
• test/internal/source-lints/resolver-dir-cache-key.test.ts: src/resolver/resolver.rs has three calls of without_trailing_slash_windows_path (one in load_as_file, two in bust_dir_cache_and_parent) and two of Dirname::dirname (load_as_file, tsconfig extends). All take the directory part of an import path or of a tsconfig path. Outside src/resolver, no bust_dir_cache argument is a strip call, or a local that a strip call initializes in the same function.

Behaviour change

On POSIX <dir>\ is a directory of its own when it reaches the cache as spelled. The spellings D\, D\\, D\/ and D/\ behave the same. When it does not exist, a package lookup continues in the parent of <dir>, as for every start directory that does not exist:

• MODULE_NOT_FOUND with auto-install off (--no-install, bun test, a compiled executable) or when a node_modules directory exists above.
• The copy of the package in a parent node_modules, when there is one. Node does the same.
• A registry request with default auto-install and no node_modules above (1 request, 0 before). A registry that has the name then answers.

On main this lookup resolved as <dir> when <dir> was already cached, which is the usual state for the directory of the script and the cwd. When <dir> was not cached, it marked <dir> as missing.

The routes on which <dir>\ reaches the cache as spelled:

• a paths entry of require.resolve or Module._resolveFilename, and the second argument of Bun.resolveSync and Bun.resolve
• the directory of a referrer: createRequire(dir + "\\/x.js"), the parent argument of import.meta.resolveSync, and a file: URL referrer with a raw \ (Node parses that URL and reads the \ as /)
• require(dir + "\\") and import(dir + "\\"), for an absolute specifier without ... Bun.build of a file with such a require fails to resolve it.
• an absolute tsconfig paths target that ends with \

Not changed: a relative specifier, a specifier in a package.json, a relative tsconfig target, and an absolute specifier that has .. anywhere in it. These go through a join that reads \ as a separator before they reach the cache. So require(dir + "/x/../plugins\\") still resolves as plugins, where Node throws.

A failed lookup also costs what it costs on main: the retry drops the directory of the importer. When that directory is the parent of <dir>, the next lookup reads it again (100 repeats: 100 openat, 100 close, 365 to 387 getdents64). 100 failed lookups from a plain missing directory cost the same on main (100, 100, 475 to 499).

More things change for a path with a backslash. Each has a test that fails on main:

• An import path that spells the directory of a file as fr\/ loads the file of fr in every order. On main the first spelling decided the path of the file for all later ones.
• bun --hot drops the entry of a watched directory whose name ends with \ when it changes.
• A file, and the index file of a directory, in a real we\ird have one path in every order of lookups: <abs>/we\ird/sub/index.js, as in Node. On main the answer depended on the order, and require(abs + "/we\\ird/x.js") failed with ENOENT reading "<abs>/we/ird/x.js".
• A module behind a symlink and a backslash gets its real path, as in Node: <real>/pro\j/mod.js for <link>/pro\j/mod. On main it kept the path through the link. For a link to a directory named re\al, main failed with ENOENT reading "<abs>/re/al/inner.js".
• bun run <script> runs in a package directory named pro\j, proj\ or pro\j\, and finds the bins of that directory.
• Bun.build applies the sideEffects list of a package.json in we\ird in every order. On main the first import decided.
• The dev server resolves an absolute import of a directory we\ after that directory is created, and does not take we for it.

Answers that are not Node's

Changed by this PR, and still not the answer of Node:

lookup	Node v26.3.0	main	this PR
require(abs + "/fr\\/messages"), no fr\ on disk	MODULE_NOT_FOUND	ENOENT reading "<abs>/fr\/messages.js", also for fr/messages after it	loads fr/messages.js
the same, with a real fr\/messages.js next to fr/messages.js	loads fr\/messages.js	loads fr\/messages.js, also for fr/messages after it	loads fr/messages.js
a lookup from the missing plugins\, then plugins\/sub is created, then a lookup from plugins\/sub	found	found	MODULE_NOT_FOUND
paths: [we\ird] three times, where we\ird has its own node_modules/pkg	its own copy	the copy of the root, then MODULE_NOT_FOUND two times	the copy of the root
require(abs + "/we\\ird/new/late") four times, new/late.js created after the first	throws, then loads	throws two times, then loads	throws
after a lookup of plugins\: require.resolve(abs + "/x/../plugins\\")	MODULE_NOT_FOUND	MODULE_NOT_FOUND	<abs>/plugins/index.js
bun run index.js in a working directory named pro\j	node index.js runs it	error loading current directory, exit 1	Module not found "index.js", exit 1. With a file pro/j/index.js: runs that file
new Bun.FileSystemRouter({ dir }) and reload(), where dir is below a link to a directory named re\al		reload() throws Unable to find directory: <abs>/re/al/pages	reload() does not return

• Rows 1 and 2: load_as_file reads the directory part of an import path loosely, as Node's import() does (it parses a URL). require of Node reads fr\ as a name. This PR makes the loose reading hold for every order, and the tests in resolve.test.ts pin it. Passing the import kind to choose a reading was considered. It cannot reach the bug: most rows that fail on main carry the backslash in a directory argument, which has no kind (21 of the 24 rows of the first commit). fix(runtime): preserve POSIX backslashes in file paths #42965 works on the reading of a file path in VirtualMachine::_resolve.
• Row 3: a directory that a lookup recorded as missing stays missing for the directories below it, also after it is created. Main does the same with no backslash: a lookup from the missing plugins/sub, mkdir plugins/sub, a lookup from plugins/sub throws. On main the lookup of <dir>\ cleared that record by accident. With default auto-install the last lookup asks the registry. Two more orders do the same: [plugins/sub\] mkdir plugins/sub [plugins/sub\] [plugins/sub] and [require.resolve(plugins\)] [require.resolve(plugins/m.js)] mkdir plugins/sub [plugins/sub]. resolver: re-check a cached "not found" once the directory is known to exist #46805 is the repair.
• Row 4: load_node_modules joins the directory, node_modules and the specifier loosely, so it looks in we/ird. The specifier is text, so this join is not one of them.
• Row 5: the retry after a failed lookup of an absolute specifier builds its key with normalize_slashes_only, which writes / for each \. It names we/ird/new, which is no key. On main the third lookup found the file through the walk that cut at \. For a file that is created in we\ird itself, main and this PR both throw. A version of this PR made the retry take the directory from the resolver. That mirror of the lookup was wrong for three other spellings (a directory specifier with .. in a name, a CSS import with a query string, and it made each miss through .. read the listing again). Resolver: run a missed lookup once more at a fresh Generation, with DirInfo and not-found marks under Generation #40279 records what the lookup read, which is the place for this.
• Row 6: an absolute specifier with .. in it goes through the loose join first. On main the answer was MODULE_NOT_FOUND only because the earlier lookup had marked plugins as missing.
• Row 7: the working directory loads now, so bun run index.js reaches the join of the working directory and a relative path, which is loose. bun index.js and bun run ./index.js fail, or run that other file, on main too.
• Row 8: on main reload() does not return for every root below a symlink (Fix Bun.FileSystemRouter crashes on a directory listing that is not the one asked for, and reload() through a symlink #46286 is open for reload() through a symlink). With a backslash in the real path main stopped earlier, because it looked for the loose path.

Rows 3 to 6 have a test.todo with the answer of Node in module-resolve-filename-paths.test.js.

As on main:

• A real directory <dir>\ that has its own node_modules is answered from <dir>. The key is native, but load_node_modules, the fields of a package.json and the paths of a tsconfig join with the loose platform, because one of their parts is text. This is 12 of the 360 CommonJS cells below.
• A file named b\c.js: for /a/b\c.js Node's require loads that file, and Node's import() loads /a/b/c.js. bun throws for both. load_as_file takes the directory loosely (/a/b) and the base name natively (b\c.js).
• A relative ./lib\x resolves as ./lib/x. In a working directory named pro\j, bun index.js fails with ENOENT reading "<dir>/pro/j/index.js", because the join of the importer's directory and a relative specifier is loose.
• The retry for a bare specifier names the directory of the importer through a loose join. For an importer in a real proj\ it names proj. On main that retry ran and gave a path that does not exist (/proj/impl.js). Now it does not run, and the lookup throws.
• bun run --filter and --workspaces read a package.json by a loose path. A package in packages/pro\j is skipped with a warning, or gets the package.json of packages/pro/j when that exists. In a workspace root with a backslash in its path they exit 1. Two things differ from main. A script gets the real path in npm_package_json when the working directory has a backslash. A symlink named with a backslash is a directory for the walk now, so a package behind it gets the warning that a real directory with that name gets.
• bun test: the scanner joins the path of a child directory loosely and passes its own fd, so the listing of t/name\ can land in the entry of t/name. With six test directories, each next to an empty name\, bun test t runs 3 of 6 files on main and on this branch.
• --cwd with a backslash in its value, the directory of a file: dependency for auto-install, and the paths that a tsconfig.json in we\ird names: all joined loosely.
• 23 more call sites of without_trailing_slash_windows_path strip a backslash on POSIX: 8 in src/install (PackageManager.rs, WorkspaceMap.rs), 4 in src/bundler/aot, 1 in src/bunfig, 7 in src/runtime/bake, and the link, pack and publish commands. They are not cache keys of the resolver.
• Module._nodeModulePaths("/a/b\\") and require.resolve.paths still read b\ as b.
• The exit code 0 of bun run when the shell of a script cannot be spawned. CLI: fixes for bun run, flags, bunfig.toml, .env, --filter, bun init and completions #46007 changes it.
• Windows: \ is the separator there and the input is normalized first. The Windows arms call the same functions as before.

Measurements

Release builds of main 7942008 and of this branch on it (b2ac98f, before its last merge of main), each a full build in the same checkout. Instructions are gdb single steps. Allocations and syscalls are gdb breakpoints on the mimalloc entry points and catch syscall, main thread only. strace, perf, valgrind and bloaty are not in the container.

	main	this PR
dir_info_cached_maybe_log: bytes, instructions, frame	770, 200, 56	693, 183, 56
the same: cmp $0x5c instructions	1	0
instructions executed per warm hit: front door	82	75
the same: callees (mutex, get_or_put, at_index)	134 to 150	130 to 146
first lookup of one directory: instructions, syscalls	3,567, 4	3,541, 4
the same with a trailing /	2,890, 4	2,860, 4
mimalloc calls over 1,000 warm require.resolve(id, { paths }) (JIT off)	2,036	2,036
new allocation sites on a path without a backslash		0
resolve_without_symlinks of an absolute specifier, warm	3,727	3,714
opens in the 3-call reproduction: plugins\, plugins	1, 0	1, 1
1,000 repeats of each of 6 spellings: more opens of a spelling		0
the same run: opens of the directory of the script, the parent of plugins\	1	3,001
first lookup of D\ with D cached: syscalls, mimalloc calls	0, 25 (resolves)	7, 72 (throws)
second lookup of D\, script in another directory: syscalls	0	0
size text of bun-profile	108,905,987	108,906,243 (+256)
stripped bun, file bytes	109,053,456	109,053,456 (0)

One-time costs for a path without a backslash. Each row is the first lookup of one entry. The second lookup takes the path from the entry and runs none of this.

first lookup of	function	main	this PR
a file that extension probing finds	load_as_file	3,051	3,166 (+115)
a file by its exact name	load_as_file	2,020	2,141 (+121)
the index file of a directory	load_index_with_extension	1,795	1,926 (+131)
a symlink (the lstat of the entry)	RealFS::kind	1,620	1,712 (+92)
a file below a symlinked directory (its real path)	finalize_result	2,388	2,496 (+108)
a file that is not below a symlink	finalize_result	1,064	1,053 (-11)
a directory that has a package.json	dir_info_uncached	12,621	12,690 (+69)

• Rows 2 to 5 are the test of join_in_dir_checked: one scan of the directory and one of the name for a backslash, and then the join of main. Row 7 is one scan of the directory. Row 1 compares the key of the caller's directory spelling with the key of the entry's directory.
• No row adds an allocation or a syscall.
• e187a1a came after these builds. It replaced two heap buffers in branches that only a path with a backslash reaches (intern_extension_path, PackageJSON::intern_path), after a review on GitHub asked for it.

Sizes of the functions, in bytes:

	main	this PR
dir_info_cached_miss	6,465	6,424
bust_dir_cache	262	227
dir_info_for_resolution	2,403	2,337
read_directory_with_iterator::<()>	2,266	2,233
FileSystemRouter::bust_dir_cache_recursive	1,086	1,000
bust_dir_cache_from_specifier and bust_dir_cache_and_parent	332 and 606	290 and 416
Transpiler::resolve_entry_point	2,280	2,052
resolve_without_symlinks	9,215	9,215
load_as_file	3,904	3,810
load_extension	944	802, and 592 in the cold intern_extension_path
load_index_with_extension	1,464	1,361
finalize_result	2,892	2,712
dir_info_uncached	17,663	17,469
RealFS::kind	1,642	1,878
FileSystem::abs_buf_in_dir_checked (with join_in_dir_checked inlined)		467
PackageJSON::intern_path		401
RunCommand::path_for_run and configure_path_for_run	2,441 and 396	2,303 and 361

• The 7 syscalls of the first D\ lookup are 3 openat, 3 getdents64 and 1 close. They are the failed open of D\, then the node_modules of the parent directory and the package directory in it. This lookup reads those two for the first time. Each distinct spelling that does not exist takes one entry in the index of each map, as every missing directory does.
• The 3,001 opens are the retry of main. The script is in the parent of plugins\, 3 of the 6 spellings throw here, and each throw drops and reads that directory again. On main these spellings resolve, so nothing throws. 5 throws of the same kind on main give 6 opens.
• A build stress test (Bun.build can be called thousands of times, 400 builds of 500 modules) ran in 8.7 to 9.8 s on main and 8.8 to 9.0 s on an earlier head of this branch in 4 interleaved runs each. 40 rounds of router.reload() beside 4 builds ran in 1.6 to 2.9 s on main and 1.7 to 2.4 s there in 17 interleaved runs each. That is wall-clock time inside the noise.

Registry requests for an installed package with default auto-install. The runs use a network namespace with only loopback, a local registry that counts requests and answers 404, an empty install cache, and no node_modules at or above the parent of D:

sequence	main	this PR
D after D\	1	0
D\ with D cached	0	1

Matrix: 2 paths APIs, 3 fixtures (D\ missing, empty, with its own copy), 6 spellings, 7 orders, plus ESM rows. 504 cells for each binary, against Node v26.3.0.

	main	this PR
cells that depend on the order	140 of 252	0 of 252
CommonJS cells equal to Node	210 of 360	348 of 360
ESM cells equal to Node	72 of 72	72 of 72

148 cells change. 48 go from resolved to an error (Node errors in 41. 7 are Bun.resolveSync, which Node does not have). 92 go from an error to resolved. 8 go from the index file of D to the index file of a real D\. No cell of this matrix leaves the answer of Node. The 12 cells that differ from Node are lookups from a real D\ that has its own copy of the package. The matrix has only paths entries and referrers on a tree that does not change. The table under "Answers that are not Node's" has the lookups outside it.

Tests

• test/js/node/module/module-resolve-filename-paths.test.js runs under node --test: 21 pass and 10 are todo on Node v26.3.0. For both paths APIs: six spellings in both orders, with one copy of the package and with a second copy in the parent. An existing empty plugins\. A real we\ird directory, three lookups, with and without a lookup of the missing we\ first. A directory in we\ird, its index file and a file, five specifiers. The 15 new tests fail on main. The 10 todo rows hold the answer of Node, and each comment says what bun gives.
• test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts: one process for each of Bun.resolveSync, Bun.resolve, import.meta.resolveSync, createRequire, require and import of the directory, a Worker, and Bun.build. Each looks up plugins\, then plugins, then requires a module in plugins that requires the package by name, then plugins\ again. The fixture has a nested and a hoisted copy. All 8 fail on main. Two more tests require fr\/messages and fr/messages in both orders. The backslash-first order fails on main. A test creates a file after a failed lookup through fr\/ and looks it up again: require and Worker, each with a relative and an absolute path. The absolute require row fails on main. A test resolves four modules behind a symlink and a backslash, requires each path that the lookup returned, and has a decoy file at each loose path. It fails on main, and 07737d7 loads three decoys. A test builds two imports from we\ird in both orders against its sideEffects list. One order fails on main, and both on 07737d7.
• test/cli/run/run_command.test.ts: bun run <script> in a package directory named pro\j, proj\ and pro\j\, started from that directory and from a directory below it. The script prints its directory and npm_package_json and calls a bin of that directory. The 6 rows fail on main.
• test/cli/run/filter-workspace.test.ts: the two workspace rows. Both fail on main. In the second row bun skips the package in x\ with a warning, because --filter opens its package.json through a loose join. The test asserts that warning.
• test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts: an absolute import through fr\/late resolves after the file is created. On main the dev server finds the file and gives it the caller's spelling as its path, so the module does not load. On the first commit of this PR the eviction missed the listing. A second test imports a directory we\ next to a directory we, then creates we\ with a package.json whose main goes up one directory. On main the import takes we at once. On 07737d7 it stays Could not resolve.
• test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts: bun --hot reads a package.json that is created in a watched directory named we\. It fails on main. 40 of 40 runs pass on a release build and 20 of 20 on the debug build, 12 of them with 12 busy loops beside it.
• cargo test -p bun_paths: a table for without_trailing_slash_native.
• Fail before: with src/ of main the seven test files fail 2, 12, 15, 6, 2, 2 and 1 tests (the lint, resolve, module-resolve-filename-paths, run_command, filter-workspace, bundle, hot).
• Suites on the debug build: test/js/bun/resolve/ (439 pass), test/js/node/module/, test/js/node/path/ (125 pass), test/js/bun/util/filesystem_router.test.ts (51 pass), test/cli/run/filter-workspace.test.ts (133 pass), test/cli/run/run_command.test.ts (39 pass), test/cli/run/multi-run.test.ts (132 pass), test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts (319 pass), test/cli/install/bunx.test.ts (238 pass), test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts (27 pass), test/cli/watch/ (21 pass), test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts (56 pass). Some tests hit a timeout or a timing assertion in one run and pass in the next: sourcemap-simd.test.ts (5 tests at the 5 s limit of the debug build), run in parallel, and two does not take a promise tests of hot.test.ts. A release build of main fails those two hot tests in 5 of 6 runs in this container.
• By hand, because the existing tests at this limit are Linux-only and open PRs insert at that place: in a working directory of PATH_MAX - 13 bytes with a backslash in its name, bun run <script>, --parallel and --sequential run the script, as on main for the last two. The path of the package.json is 4,096 bytes there, the limit of abs_checked.
• bun run rust:check-all: 12 of 12 targets on b2ac98f, and Windows x64, macOS x64 and Linux arm64 again after the last merge of main.

Other open PRs on these lines

Nothing else open changes the POSIX key. git merge-tree of this branch and each head:

• Resolver: run a missed lookup once more at a fresh Generation, with DirInfo and not-found marks under Generation #40279 (a resolver-owned retry) conflicts in transpiler.rs, VirtualMachine.rs and resolver.rs. It deletes bust_dir_cache_and_parent and both retry builders, so its side wins there. It adds four without_trailing_slash_windows_path calls and two is_sep_any tests to resolver.rs (record_touched, bust_dir_and_stale_parents, is_dir_or_inside). After this PR those are dir_cache_key and is_sep_native. The count in the lint reports the strips.
• FileSystemRouter: reload() reads each directory once, from the route loader #45617 conflicts in filesystem_router.rs. Its helper strips before bust_dir_cache, which the lint reports.
• resolver: match file name case the way the directory's filesystem does #44690 conflicts in resolver.rs: its entry_abs_path replaces the fills in load_as_file, load_extension and load_index_with_extension. Its function is then the one place for abs_buf_in_dir_checked.
• resolver: re-check a cached "not found" once the directory is known to exist #46805 merges clean. It adds two Dirname::dirname calls to the miss walk, which must be dirname_native. The count in the lint reports them. The three todo rows for a directory that is created later are its rows.
• CLI: fixes for bun run, flags, bunfig.toml, .env, --filter, bun init and completions #46007 (fixes for bun run, --filter and more) merges clean in run_command.rs and filter_arg.rs, and in the two test files of test/cli/run: the new tests are not at the places where it inserts. Its other conflicts are the ones it has with main. It makes a failed spawn exit 1.
• Fix Bun.FileSystemRouter crashes on a directory listing that is not the one asked for, and reload() through a symlink #46286 (Bun.FileSystemRouter, reload() through a symlink), resolver: end the path of every cached directory with a separator #46965, resolver: anchor a relative require.resolve paths entry at the cwd #41491 (the custom_dir_paths loop above this layer) and resolver: reject backslash in bare package specifiers on POSIX #36425 (a backslash in a bare specifier) merge clean.
• resolver: bust the real-path alias of a symlinked directory with the dir cache #40587 and dev server: resolve a tsconfig paths alias to a file created after start #43396 add without_trailing_slash_windows_path calls for cache keys, which the lint reports. fix(runtime): preserve POSIX backslashes in file paths #42965 reads an existing file path natively in VirtualMachine.rs. These three conflict with main today.
• On POSIX a \ is part of a file name: fs.watch, Bun.mmap, Bun.build outputs, --config, bun pm pack and others opened the wrong path #45452 (closed with no comment) made Platform::Posix strict in 76 files and kept the joins of the resolver and its directory cache loose. Its rule: text that comes from a file keeps the loose reading. This PR keeps the loose reading for text: a specifier, a package.json field, a tsconfig path. It changes the key, and the joins whose two parts are a listed directory and an entry name.

A good order: this PR, then #46805, #44690 and #45617, then #40279.

Self-review

Five reviews of the diff raised 121 concerns. 110 are addressed:

• From the first review (28 raised, 25 addressed): the miss walk and load_extension left the same symptom and are fixed here. Tests were added for a second copy of the package in the parent, for Bun.resolve, import.meta.resolveSync and import(), and for bun run --filter. This text states the outcomes other than MODULE_NOT_FOUND, how long the entry stays, and the behaviour change.
• From the second review (29 raised, 26 addressed): the dev server test fails on main and writes through the harness. The doc comments are one line each. This text scopes the claim about Node to directory lookups. It lists the answers that are not Node's, says which call-site edits change an answer, and names the conflicts.
• From the third review (15 raised, 14 addressed): it ran a version that took the bust key of an import path from the functions of the lookup. That version changed three answers of main, so the two retry builders keep the keys of main. Four todo rows got a comment that says they passed before. Two todo rows that asked for the opposite of a passing test are removed.
• From the fourth review (33 raised, 29 addressed): it read a first form of the package.json fix, a private join in PackageJSON::parse. That form made bun run --filter run the root and a package outside workspaces in a workspace root with a backslash, and it rejected a path of 4,096 bytes that main accepts. The join is now one function for a listed directory and a name, and the package.json path is native only with the fd of the directory. The review also found the real-path joins and the sideEffects effect, and asked for the dev server test of the third bust key. bust_dir_cache_and_parent keeps the keys of main and adds the native one.
• From the fifth review (16 raised, 16 addressed): a check of the reworked commit on three binaries. With real paths right, the path that one lookup returns goes into the next lookup, and the exact-name join behind it was loose: require(require.resolve(x)), an entry point and a Worker through a symlink failed where main worked. It also found the index join, the lstat of a symlink named with a backslash, and bun run <script> in pro\j\ (exit 0 without a run). All are fixed, with rows in the tests.

A review of the first commit on GitHub found that hot_reload_event.rs still stripped its path. A check of every other bust then found bust_dir_cache_and_parent: the first commit made the dev server miss a file behind an absolute fr\/ import. A review of 07737d7 on GitHub found bun run <script> in pro\j. All are fixed.

Not done here, with the reason:

• The POSIX arm of the shared without_trailing_slash_windows_path: 23 more callers in bun install, bunfig, bake, the AOT options and the CLI would change with no test.
• The loose joins whose parts are text (load_node_modules, the relative import join, package.json fields, tsconfig paths): a native join of the directory part needs a second reading for the text part. resolver: reject backslash in bare package specifiers on POSIX #36425 and fix(runtime): preserve POSIX backslashes in file paths #42965 work on two of them.
• A native read of the package.json files in bun run --filter: its root lookup, its ! patterns and its path selectors read the same directory loosely, so a native path in one of them runs packages that main skips.
• The bun test scanner: it needs the same native join.
• The retry key for a bare specifier from an importer in a directory named proj\, and for an absolute specifier into we\ird: the bust gets the specifier and not the path that the lookup read. Resolver: run a missed lookup once more at a fresh Generation, with DirInfo and not-found marks under Generation #40279 records that path.
• Todo rows for a file: referrer with a raw \ and for an absolute tsconfig target that ends with \: both are listed under "Behaviour change".
• Rows for bun run --parallel and --sequential in a directory with a backslash: they run the script there on main too, and the bun run <script> rows cover the PATH entries that they share.
• Taking the script directory of proj\ out of this PR, as the fourth review asked: with the native package.json path, bun run <script> in pro\j\ then exits 0 and runs nothing.
• A row for require("<name>/package.json") from inside a package in we\ird: the bun run rows assert the bytes of the same path through npm_package_json.
• An issue for the list under "Answers that are not Node's": the list is in this text and in the todo rows.
• The loop in the --hot test that saves the module again when the first reload still misses: the watcher reports the directory and the file as two events.

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• src/resolver/lib.rs
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Directory-cache keys and traversal now use native path separators. Cache-busting call sites pass directory paths directly, and the change adds regression tests for resolution and runtime behavior with backslashes and escaped slashes.

Changes

Native Path and Directory Resolution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native trailing-separator handling src/paths/string_paths.rs, src/node_path/lib.rs	A shared helper trims native trailing separators and preserves the root. Current-directory helpers use the shared helper, with tests for POSIX and Windows paths.
Resolver cache keys and traversal src/resolver/resolver.rs, src/resolver/lib.rs	Directory-cache key derivation and traversal use native separators. Extension-path interning compares the spelled directory with the entry directory and joins the entry directory with the basename when they differ.
Directory-cache invalidation call sites src/bundler/transpiler.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/jsc/hot_reloader.rs, src/runtime/api/filesystem_router.rs, src/runtime/bake/dev_server/hot_reload_event.rs, test/internal/source-lints/resolver-dir-cache-key.test.ts	Cache-busting call sites pass directory paths without first stripping trailing separators. Hot-reload watch lookup still uses a path without the trailing slash. Source-lint tests check cache-key derivation and cache-busting arguments.
Resolver path regression tests test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts, test/js/node/module/module-resolve-filename-paths.test.js	POSIX tests cover backslash-containing paths, alternate spellings, lookup order, and retries after file creation. Additional tests cover require.resolve and Module._resolveFilename path entries.
Runtime and development-server regression tests test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts, test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts, test/cli/run/filter-workspace.test.ts	Tests cover escaped-slash imports, hot reload in a backslash-named watched directory, and workspace filtering for directories with backslashes in their names.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#41491: Changes options.paths handling and tests backslash-containing paths, which connect to this PR’s directory-cache path rules.
• oven-sh/bun#46965: Changes trailing-separator handling for directory paths from cached listings, which connects to this PR’s cache-key normalization.
• oven-sh/bun#46805: Reopens stale negative directory-cache entries after directory creation, which connects to this PR’s cache-key changes and retry tests.

Suggested reviewers: alii, jarred-sumner

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 07737

Retries after a missing module can retain a stale directory listing when its name ends in a backslash. Correct the parent cache key before merging.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 88b4cf8 has 5 failures in Build #134272 (All Failures):

• test/aot/programs-that-ask-the-shell-4.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64 - test-aot-drawn
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How this was reproduced:

• Run the script from the description with bun --no-install order.cjs in a directory that has plugins/node_modules/plug. On 1.4.3 and on main (7942008) the lookup from plugins\ makes the two lookups from plugins throw MODULE_NOT_FOUND. Node v26.3.0 and this branch find the module.
• With the lookup from plugins first, 1.4.3 and main resolve plugins\ as plugins. Node and this branch throw MODULE_NOT_FOUND for it.
• In a working directory named pro\j that has a package.json with a script, run bun run <script>. Main prints error loading current directory and exits 1. This branch runs the script in that directory.
• The new tests fail on a build of main and pass on this branch. The tests in module-resolve-filename-paths.test.js also pass under node --test.

CI on 88b4cf8 (build 134272), at 08:12 UTC on October 28:

• All 158 test-bun jobs that ran passed: Debian, Ubuntu and Alpine on x64 and aarch64, the ASAN build, Windows on x64 and aarch64, and macOS on aarch64. All build jobs passed.
• The two macOS x64 test-bun jobs had not started.
• Four test-aot-drawn jobs failed. They are soft-fail jobs for the tests of the ahead-of-time compiler (test/aot/parts.test.ts, test/aot/generated-by-python.test.ts). This PR does not touch that code, and four of these jobs fail on main too (build 134092 of 11c3671).
• The lol-html cargo test check failed in its Setup step (exit code 56, a download) before cargo test ran. It passed on e187a1a, which has the same tree.

Pull request: #47002

[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the new intern_extension_path helper: its .expect("unreachable") on the DirnameStore append is the same call the replaced abs_path_or_fill closure made on the base branch, and on Windows dir_cache_key still strips both separators so the kept-spelling branch matches base behavior there. The read_directory_with_iterator key change in src/resolver/lib.rs was also traced to its non-resolver callers (bun install, --filter, the bun test scanner); those directories come from joins, so only a literal trailing backslash spelling changes.

Extended reasoning...

The change rekeys the resolver's process-wide dir_cache and fs.entries caches on native separators only (POSIX strips /, Windows unchanged), adds without_trailing_slash_native, Dirname::dirname_native and intern_extension_path, and reroutes bust_dir_cache callers in transpiler.rs, VirtualMachine.rs, hot_reloader.rs and filesystem_router.rs. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive part is cache-key correctness. The inline findings include a sibling bust site in src/runtime/bake/dev_server/hot_reload_event.rs left on the old helper and an entry-point retry regression in transpiler.rs, so a human should weigh those before merge.

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• 🔴 src/runtime/bake/dev_server/hot_reload_event.rs — Bake dev-server users on POSIX whose project has a directory named with a trailing backslash get a resolver cache that a change in that directory never clears. src/runtime/bake/dev_server/hot_reload_event.rs:99 still strips the changed dir with without_trailing_slash_windows_path before bust_dir_cache at line 109, so /root/x\/ busts the key /root/x while this PR now keys /root/x\ separately. Fix: pass the raw watched path to bust_dir_cache (as the seven other callers now do) so every bust uses Resolver::dir_cache_key; the new source lint misses this site because the strip happens in a separate let rather than inline in the call. [also at: src/resolver/resolver.rs:2491 - pre-existing: one bust_dir_cache caller still strips a trailing backslash before busting, so on POSIX a dev-server directory whose name ends in \ busts the sibling <dir> entry instead of its own.; test/internal/source-lints/resolver-dir-cache-key.test.ts:63 - Maintainers get a lint that passes while a caller still strips a backslash before bust_dir_cache, so the rule it claims to keep is not kept.]

  Why this was flagged

  On POSIX a bake dev server watches a directory whose name ends in a backslash. When the watcher reports a change, process_file_list in src/runtime/bake/dev_server/hot_reload_event.rs:98-109 strips the key with without_trailing_slash_windows_path at line 99 (on unix this is the generic without_trailing_slash in src/bun_core/lib.rs:2336, which strips \ too), and calls bust_dir_cache(changed_dir) with /root/x instead of /root/x\. After this PR Resolver::dir_cache_key (src/resolver/resolver.rs:2486) keeps the backslash, so the entry for /root/x\ in dir_cache and fs.entries is never removed and the dev.directory_watchers retry for that directory re-resolves against the stale NOT_FOUND entry. On the base branch both spellings collapsed onto the key /root/x, so the bust (wrongly but effectively) reached the entry. The source lint test/internal/source-lints/resolver-dir-cache-key.test.ts guards the pattern, but its regex only matches the strip inline inside the bust_dir_cache( call, not a strip assigned to a local first.

  Verification: src/runtime/bake/dev_server/hot_reload_event.rs:98-109 still strips with without_trailing_slash_windows_path, so on unix /root/x\/ becomes /root/x. Post-PR bust_dir_cache keys on dir_cache_key, so the bust never touches the /root/x\ entry. On the base the bust hit. The lint at test/internal/source-lints/resolver-dir-cache-key.test.ts:52-64 only matches the strip inline.

[robobun]

Follow-up to the review above, for the finding that has no inline thread (hot_reload_event.rs).

• Fixed in e24e2c6: HotReloadEvent::process_file_list passes the path of the watcher to bust_dir_cache. The strip stays only for the lookup in directory_watchers.watches, which DirectoryWatchStore::insert keys with the same strip.
• The lint also reports a strip that a let binds in the same function before the call. On main it reports eight call sites, this one included.
• The watcher-path edits change an answer, so they have a test now. hot.test.ts: bun --hot reads a package.json that is created in a watched directory named we\. It fails on main.
• I then checked every other bust against the key of its fill. Resolver::bust_dir_cache_and_parent was wrong since the first commit. The thread on transpiler.rs has the details.

The description now lists each answer that is still not the answer of Node, and which of them this PR changes.

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Remove the fixed limit on resolution retries.

If the watcher processes the package.json directory event after the fifth module reload, this test fails even when cache invalidation works. Wait for successful resolution through event-driven reloads, subject to the test runner’s timeout, instead of stopping after five attempts. As per coding guidelines, “Do not write flaky tests” and “Always wait for the condition to be met instead of waiting for an arbitrary amount of time.”

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Follow-up to the CodeRabbit review of 07737d7, for the finding that has no inline thread (test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts, the limit of 5 rounds).

I kept the limit. The loop does not wait for time. Each round writes the module and then awaits the line that the reload prints.

• The directory event for package.json is in the queue of the watcher before the first write of real.js. The watcher reads its events in order. So it handles the directory event in the batch of the first file event, or in an earlier batch.
• The one race is inside that batch: the reload for the file event can start before the directory event drops the entry. The second round starts after the watcher thread finished that batch. So two rounds are the maximum, and 5 is a margin.
• Without the limit, a build that never drops the entry (main) writes and reloads until the test times out. With the limit the test fails in expect(answer).toBe(...) and shows the answer.

[claude]

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

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