[robobun]

Problem

• process.stdin.setRawMode("io") gives plain raw mode and no rawMode. setRawMode("false") turns raw mode on.
• The cause is flag = !!flag at src/js/node/tty.ts:97. Node replaced it in v26.8.0 and v24.21.0 (tty: add raw-vt and io raw modes nodejs/node#64140).
• process.binding("tty_wrap").TTY#setRawMode(3) returns 0 and leaves the terminal cooked. Node's tty.js passes 3 for raw.

Fix

• setRawMode(mode) takes "raw" and "io" as Node does, throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE on other strings and sets rawMode. "io" is cfmakeraw() on POSIX and 'error' ENOTSUP on Windows.
• The POSIX setter takes libuv v1.53.0's mode switch: 3 means 1, unknown modes answer EINVAL. tty_wrap gets Node's UV_TTY_MODE_* constants and toInt32 coercion.
• Verified: test/js/node/tty.test.ts and nodettywrap.test.ts. Six new tests, one Node's own, fail on main and pass here and on Node v26.12.1.
• Self-reviewed: 12 concerns raised, 11 addressed. Not done: new AOT test rows (Notes).

Background

• "io" is libuv's UV_TTY_MODE_IO: raw mode with output processing off, so \n stays \n.
• On POSIX ttySetMode in wtf-bindings.cpp is Bun's port of uv_tty_set_mode(). tty.ReadStream and tty_wrap both end there.
• Considered a change in tty.ts only: tty_wrap joins below it, so TTY#setRawMode(3) stays cooked.

Downsides

• No user asked for two behavior changes. They need a maintainer's yes. Other strings throw where they turned raw mode on. TTY#setRawMode coerces where it threw, and answers EINVAL where it answered 0.
• setRawMode(boolean) runs 37 to 39 bytecodes (was 23): +284 to +443 instructions per call, JIT off. Binary text grows 755 bytes.
• Not run locally: Windows and macOS.

Notes

Repro. Run it with a terminal as stdin.

const stdin = process.stdin;
for (const mode of ["io", "false"]) {
  try {
    stdin.setRawMode(mode);
    console.log(JSON.stringify(mode), "isRaw:", stdin.isRaw, "rawMode:", stdin.rawMode);
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(mode), "throws", e.code);
  }
  stdin.setRawMode(false);
}

	"io"	"false"
Node v26.12.1	isRaw: true rawMode: io	throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE
main	isRaw: true rawMode: undefined	isRaw: true rawMode: undefined
this PR	isRaw: true rawMode: io	throws ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE

Reference. Every Node row is from the official node-v26.12.1-linux-x64 binary. Its sha256 equals the pin in scripts/build/ci-images/spec.ts. Each run has a fresh pseudo-terminal as stdin (script -qec '<cmd>' /dev/null </dev/null). This is all of node:tty that changed between Node v26.3.0 and v26.12.1: one upstream commit.

Lines that differ from Node v26.12.1 (same probe on both sides, debug builds):

probe	main	this PR
the 8-row repro from the report	8 of 8	0 of 8
argument matrix (19 values, descriptors, key order)	23 of 25	0 of 25
termios after each mode and each transition	8 of 9	0 of 9
tty_wrap TTY#setRawMode (16 calls, own names)	8 of 18	0 of 18

What "io" changes. On Linux setRawMode(true) and ("raw") give c_oflag 5 (OPOST on). setRawMode("io") gives c_oflag 4 on Node and on this PR, and 5 on main. raw to io and io to raw each switch the termios. false restores the saved termios.

termios calls (tcgetattr + tcsetattr(TCSADRAIN), counted with an LD_PRELOAD logger, start-up and exit calls left out):

sequence	main	this PR	Node
true, true, false, false	1+2	1+2	1+2
true, "io", "raw", false, false	1+2	1+4	1+4
five strings that Node rejects	2+3	0+0	0+0

The two behavior changes.

• Strings. A GitHub code search finds four small repositories that pass 'true' or 'false' to setRawMode. 'false' turned raw mode on for them. They throw on Node v24.21+ and v26.8+ too.
• tty_wrap. Node's TTYWrap::SetRawMode takes the mode with Int32Value(), so true is 1, no argument is 0 and "3" is 3. Bun threw TypeError: mode must be a number for those, on every platform. readline-sync@1.4.10 passes a boolean: with stdin piped and a terminal on /dev/tty, its keyIn() throws that TypeError on main and returns the key here and on Node.
• An unknown mode (7, -1). Main answered 0, set the terminal cooked and recorded the mode. Node v26.12.1 aborts, because its libuv 1.52.1 reaches UNREACHABLE(). libuv answers UV_EINVAL since v1.53.0 (unix: return EINVAL for invalid tty modes libuv/libuv#5174), and so does this PR. The switch in ttySetMode is libuv v1.53.0's.

Cost for a caller that passes a boolean.

• Executed bytecodes of setRawMode: 23 on main, 37 for false and 39 for true here (BUN_JSC_dumpGeneratedBytecodes=1).
• User instructions per call, release builds (ThinLTO), BUN_JSC_useJIT=0, slope between 200,000 and 400,000 calls, 5 runs, spread 1: 1,281 to 1,565 for false, 1,280 to 1,723 for true. Counted with perf_event_open (perf and valgrind are not installed here). With the JIT on the slope is between 130 and 460 on both builds and varies from run to run.
• No syscall, allocation or host call is added. The stream has one more own property (25 to 26 own keys on process.stdin). 100 new streams add the same cells as before. process.binding("tty_wrap") has 5 own names (was 2).

Bytes, release builds of 11c3671 and of this change on it (nm -S, size). The branch was then rebased with no change to these files.

	main	this PR
Bun__ttySetMode	725	653
TTYWrap_functionSetMode	255	416
createNodeTTYWrapObject	1,556	1,900
jsTTYSetMode	709	709
createBunTTYFunctions	1,263	1,263
built node/tty.js	4,182	4,681
text of bun (size)	138,010,898	138,011,653

Bun__ttySetMode runs 5 more instructions before its same-mode check (23 to 28). The stripped file has the same size on both sides.

Other callers of the POSIX setter. Bun.Terminal#setRawMode, the REPL and the Markdown renderer reach Bun__ttySetMode through bun_core::tty, with modes 0 and 1 only. The switch does not change those. A loop of 50 Bun.Terminal#setRawMode toggles logs 153 termios calls on main and here.

Tests.

• The first table also asks for "io" while the stream is raw. On Windows libuv answers ENOTSUP from every mode, so the stream stays "raw".
• The three tables in tty.test.ts are what Node v26.12.1 answers. Where PATH has a Node with the change (the CI images pin v26.12.1), the same children run under it as a second runtime. Here that passes with v26.12.1 first on PATH. The rows for modes 7 and -1 are for Bun only.
• test/js/node/test/pseudo-tty/test-set-raw-mode-modes.js and its .out are Node's files, unedited. Node's harness runs them with tools/pseudo-tty.py. The driver in tty.test.ts does the same with Bun.Terminal: ONLCR and ECHOCTL off, output compared with the .out file. On main the file stops at its line 18 with undefined !== 'raw'.
• Snapshot: setRawMode("a", 1) on a receiver that is no stream now throws before it reads the receiver, on every platform. Node v26.12.1 prints the same line for that row of the fixture. The Windows block is edited by hand and only that row moves.

Tests run here (linux-x64).

• Debug build: tty.test.ts and nodettywrap.test.ts (15 pass, and 20 pass with Node v26.12.1 on PATH), the node:tty case of members-of-prototype-objects-for-any-receiver.test.ts, the setRawMode and termios tests of test/js/bun/terminal/terminal.test.ts (14 pass), the three tty files in test/regression/issue (6 pass), and the vendored test-readline-set-raw-mode.js, test-tty-stdin-pipe.js, test-tty-stdin-end.js, test-tty-backwards-api.js, test-ttywrap-stack.js, test-repl-stdin-push-null.js.
• Debug build of the merge base's src/: the new tests fail, the others pass.
• Release build: the repro, and the uv_tty_reset_mode tests of test/napi/uv.test.ts (2 pass).
• tsc -p src/js: the same errors with and without the change, none in tty.ts.

--compile --aot. test/aot/raw-mode-of-a-terminal.test.ts is not edited. With rows for "io", rawMode and the throw it fails on a release build of main (0 of 2) and passes on a release build of this PR (2 of 2). Under a debug build on the machine that proves this PR the file is killed at its 240 s build limit, unedited too, so the rows cannot be shown there to fail before and pass after. The parameter of setRawMode is typed boolean | string, so that no compiler can take the throw for dead code.

Not run locally. Windows and macOS. On Windows the "io" branch, the tty_wrap coercion, the -4049 and -4071 in the tests and the snapshot block are read from libuv. CI ran them on two earlier pushes (4488369 and 51274c0): on the Windows x64 and aarch64 lanes tty.test.ts passed (8 tests ran, under Bun and under Node v26.12.1), and so did nodettywrap.test.ts and the snapshot test. The second run has the case of "io" from raw mode. The macOS lanes did not run in either: their jobs waited for an agent until they expired.

Left for later.

• A tty.ReadStream that is destroyed without setRawMode(false) leaves the terminal in its mode. Node restores it (libuv's uv__tty_close). Main leaves it raw. With this PR it is left in "io" if the program asked for that.
• Bun.Terminal#setRawMode(enabled) stays a boolean. It is a Bun API with no Node contract. terminal.outputFlags &= ~1 after setRawMode(true) gives the "io" termios.
• tty.isatty and the two stream constructors check their fd argument differently from Node (isatty("0") is true, new tty.ReadStream(-1) throws ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE). This PR does not change them.
• The Windows native frames that take a bool (jsTTYSetMode's Windows arm, Source__setRawModeStdin, Source::set_raw_mode, FileReader::set_raw_mode, WindowsBufferedReader::set_raw_mode). When Remove libuv on Windows #42819 lands, the mode number can go down and the JS check for "io" on Windows can go.
• Other failures of setRawMode still emit a plain Error, not an ErrnoException (tty: native TTY handle, ReadStream extends net.Socket #41495 has that). tty_wrap answers a positive errno on POSIX, Node a negative one.

Related PRs. #41495 and #42819 rewrite this function, and both still start with flag = !!flag. #41495 also replaces TTYWrap_functionSetMode, so the coercion must be kept there. #42819 removes uv.h, so this PR uses the mode numbers and not the libuv names. The check for "io" on Windows sits above the platform branch so that it survives either rebase. #46416 stops builtins from reading process.binding, so the Windows branch uses -4049 as dgram.ts does. #47138 lists this gap on the compatibility page. If it merges first, its sentence about rawMode and "io" must go.

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

[robobun]

Status: ready for review. It needs a maintainer's decision on the two behavior changes listed under Downsides.

How I reproduced it: the 8-row script from the report, with a fresh pseudo-terminal as stdin (script -qec '<runtime> repro.js' /dev/null </dev/null), on linux-x64.

runtime	rows that differ from Node v26.12.1
Node v26.12.1 (official binary, sha256 equals the pin in scripts/build/ci-images/spec.ts)	0 of 8
main	8 of 8
this PR	0 of 8

CI on b3e4108 (build 135201) finished red, but no job failed. Every job that got an agent passed.

• 184 jobs passed: all 180 Linux and Windows jobs, and the 4 macOS aarch64 test jobs.
• The only jobs that did not pass are the 4 macOS x64 test jobs. They never got an agent. They expired four times in the queue, and after the fourth time the build stopped creating them again. That is what makes the build red.
• test/js/node/tty.test.ts ran 18 tests with 0 failures on Linux (read from the ASAN and Alpine lanes) and 8 tests with 0 failures on Windows. The same children run under Bun and under Node v26.12.1.
• macOS aarch64: the 4 test jobs exited 0 (agents on macOS 15 and 26), and the build has no annotation for a failed test. I could not read their logs, because the CI API rate limit was used up, so the pass counts of tty.test.ts on macOS are not confirmed here. Job ids: 01a18869-3f6f-48bf-ab21-e4f753ffad54, 01a18869-3c74-47e5-839f-a1d597b5a2f6, 01a18869-3b78-4700-83a3-e44402329347, 01a18869-382b-47e2-af8b-e3a3b4934430.
• macOS x64 has not run this PR.
• The tests that the build marks as flaky passed on a retry. This PR does not touch them.

A retry of the 4 expired macOS x64 jobs on build 135201 is what turns the build green. I did not start one.

Pull request: #47318

[robobun]

^{Updated 10:06 AM PT - Oct 29th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit b3e4108 has some failures in Build #135201 (All Failures)

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TTYReadStream now accepts boolean, "raw", and "io" modes and reports its selected mode. Native bindings expose libuv TTY mode constants and handle mode conversion. Tests cover API state, argument handling, platform behavior, and PTY modes.

Changes

TTY mode support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
TTYReadStream mode API src/js/node/tty.ts	setRawMode accepts boolean, "raw", or "io" values. rawMode records successful mode changes. The implementation selects platform-specific mode values and rejects unsupported string values.
Native mode handling src/jsc/bindings/ProcessBindingTTYWrap.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/wtf-bindings.cpp	The tty_wrap binding exposes three mode constants and coerces its mode argument. Native handling maps raw-vt to raw and returns EINVAL for unsupported numeric modes.
Mode API and PTY tests test/js/node/nodettywrap.test.ts, test/js/node/tty.test.ts, test/js/node/test/pseudo-tty/test-set-raw-mode-modes.js	Tests cover mode constants, argument coercion, rawMode state, platform-specific behavior, and PTY input and output modes.

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The named TTY modes have no established blocking defect. Additional io-mode input-byte coverage is a useful follow-up; the change is mergeable subject to normal checks.

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Nitpick comments: 1

test/js/node/tty.test.ts: 1

203-206: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover IXON and ISTRIP input handling in io mode.

The io-mode tests check only ICANON, ECHO, and OPOST through modeOf(). No test writes input bytes after setRawMode("io"). A change that leaves IXON or ISTRIP enabled in io mode would pass these tests.

Io mode runs cfmakeraw-equivalent flag clearing on POSIX. On non-Solaris systems, that clears IXON and ISTRIP. A test can cover this by writing \x13 and a high-bit byte such as \x80 after setRawMode("io"), then asserting that the child reads both bytes unchanged. Before the setRawMode("io") call, the test must enable ISTRIP. Otherwise a regression that leaves ISTRIP enabled would still pass.

Coverage gap, not a current defect. The current implementation clears these flags, so this does not block merge.

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Review comment at @test/js/node/tty.test.ts around lines 203 - 206:
Extend the io-mode tests around modeOf to enable ISTRIP before setRawMode("io"),
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[robobun]

On the suggestion to test IXON and ISTRIP in "io" mode: the flags of that mode come from one cfmakeraw() call (uv__tty_make_raw in src/jsc/bindings/wtf-bindings.cpp), and this PR does not change it. The tests assert what this PR adds, which is the choice of the mode: OPOST through the pty, and ONLCR through Node's own test-set-raw-mode-modes.js. I left the check of each flag out.

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