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Problem

• error: Cannot find module './gen.js' for a module that is on disk: 21 of 4,800 --hot starts of a program that writes a module and imports it at once.
• VirtualMachine::_resolve retries a miss only if Resolver::bust_dir_cache answers true (src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:5666). The bust erased the key, so only the first caller got true: the watcher thread or another JS thread can be first.

Fix

• BSSMapInner::remove (src/bun_alloc/lib.rs) keeps the key and stores UNASSIGNED for it. A later bust answers true on any thread, for both caches.
• get_or_put, get, at_index and put read UNASSIGNED as a never-put key, so lookups and the retry sites do not change.
• Verified: a unit test, two tests in test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts, one with a Worker in test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts (all fail on main), and the watch, resolve and dev server suites.

Background

• The resolver keeps each folder's listing and DirInfo in two process-wide maps. A bust forgets one folder in both.
• The retry was unconditional until chore: random acts of cleanup to tests #8915 (1.0.27).
• Considered: an unconditional retry (one more lookup for each failed pkg/sub), a bust count read at the four sites (two loads on each resolve), Resolver: run a missed lookup once more at a fresh Generation, with DirInfo and not-found marks under Generation #40279 (2,251 lines).

Downsides

• The answer now means "looked up before": a repeated failed utils/missing beside a looked-up ./utils looks twice on each call, 19,986 instructions (main 14,999).
• One index entry (17 bytes) stays for each busted folder that is not looked up again.
• Each watcher event for an unwatched file: +33 instructions.

Notes

Repro. main.js, run with bun --hot main.js or bun --watch main.js:

import fs from "node:fs";
fs.writeFileSync(import.meta.dir + "/gen.js", "export const v = 7;\n");
const { v } = await import("./gen.js");
console.log("END", v);

The import reads the folder listing that was cached before the write and misses. _resolve then busts the folder and looks again, but only if its own bust removed something. The write is also a directory event, and the File Watcher thread busts the same folder for it. When the watcher is first, the bust of the JS thread removes nothing and the miss is final. A Worker that misses in the same folder does the same to the main thread, with no watcher.

Why the key can stay. BSSMapInner::index maps the hash of a key to a slot, to NOT_FOUND or to UNASSIGNED. get_or_put already inserts UNASSIGNED for a key that it does not know. So a kept UNASSIGNED key is the state of a key that was asked about and never put: get_or_put answers Unknown, get and at_index answer None, and put takes a new slot, as before. remove has two callers, EntriesMap::remove under RealFS::bust_entries_cache and Resolver::bust_dir_cache. Nothing iterates the index.

Numbers, release builds of main 11c3671 and of this branch.

• Write-then-import starts under --hot: 21 of 4,800 fail on main, 0 of 1,600 here. The reporter's script (--hot and --watch, 2,000 starts): 2 never end on main, 0 here.
• The new test (one start, one import() and 200 require.resolve with a long paths list, which keeps one lookup at work while the watcher busts the folder): 12 to 19 of the 201 lookups fail in each of 6 runs on main, 0 here. Debug builds: 29 to 40 on main, 0 here.
• Write, require.resolve, unlink, 20,000 rounds under --hot, three runs: 10, 11 and 14 misses on main, 0, 0 and 0 here. Without the unlink, 5,000 rounds: 74 under --hot and 67 under --watch on main, 0 and 0 here.
• Four JS threads and no watcher, 12,000 lookups, two runs: 43 and 37 misses on main, 0 and 0 here.
• Three Workers that fail imports in the folder while the main thread writes and imports 5,000 modules: 1 failure on main, 0 here.
• The test with one Worker and no watcher (test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts): the Worker fails a lookup in the folder each time the main thread has written a module, and the main thread then looks the module up. 200 rounds. It fails 30 of 30 runs on main. Here it passes 400 of 400 on a release build and 15 of 15 on a debug build. It takes 0.1 to 0.4 s on a release build and 2.1 s on a debug build. The program waits for its Worker with a limit of 5 s at the start and at the end, and prints which wait ended. The test has a limit of 20 s for that report.

Cost. Instructions for each repeated require.resolve (JIT off, 2,000 calls, the first call taken off), main and this branch:

specifier	main	this branch
./present.cjs (a hit)	8,058	8,062
./missing.js	31,258	31,226
nopkg	38,161	38,087
nopkg/sub/path	15,323	15,309
@scope/missing	15,375	15,370
utils/missing	14,998	15,013
utils/missing after ./utils/a.cjs was looked up	14,999	19,986
../x.js	25,568	25,551
/tmp/definitely/not/here.js	14,314	14,277

Only the seventh row changes: its bust key, the folder utils, was looked up before, so each failure now looks twice. On main the first failure does that and the later ones do not. Bun.resolveSync hit, 100,000 calls: 6,702 instructions on both. File Watcher thread, one event for an unwatched file (perf_event_open on the thread, median of 7): 2,031 at 4 watched files and 2,252 at 1,000 (main 1,998 and 2,219). Release .text: 108,646,409 bytes (main 108,646,665).

The retry sites. VirtualMachine::_resolve and Transpiler::resolve_entry_point bust one key, the folder, and look again when the bust answers true. The two sites of src/bundler/bundle_v2.rs bust two keys, the folder and the joined path, and look again when either answers true. The tests here go through _resolve. No test is added at resolve_entry_point: the answer is made in one place, which has the unit test. The comment at each of the four sites now says that the retry needs a folder that was ever looked up.

What this does not change.

• The bust key is one folder that the caller guesses from the specifier. A scoped package, a package subpath or a directory that is written just before the lookup can still miss with no watcher. Resolver: run a missed lookup once more at a fresh Generation, with DirInfo and not-found marks under Generation #40279 and re-mapped import paths cache does not update for new files created after bun has already started executing! #12372 cover those.
• No retry for an importer whose folder is not absolute, and at the two bundler sites only with a dev server or a watcher.
• Resolver::bust_dir_cache still runs on the File Watcher thread and removes the DirInfo key without RESOLVER_MUTEX. Worker / console / --hot: remove unsafe from web_worker, ConsoleObject, hot_reloader #40420 moves that.
• resolver: a busted directory listing keeps its slot and is refilled in place #36675 adds invalidate beside remove, and its unit test expects a second call to answer false. The one that lands second has to keep the kept key.

Tests. bun bd test test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts: 28 pass, 0 fail. cargo test -p bun_resolver dir_cache_tests: 1 pass, and it fails with the old remove at the second remove of the same key. On the debug build also test/regression/issue/03216.test.ts (1), test/js/bun/resolve/resolve-ts.test.ts (27), test/js/bun/resolve/import-meta-resolve.test.mjs (15) and test/cli/watch/watch.test.ts (16 pass, and --watch reports an error when its executable was deleted fails on its 5 s limit because it copies the 1.6 GB debug binary). test/js/bun/resolve/resolve-error.test.ts: 31 pass, and finalize frees with the same allocator it was created with takes 5.2 to 6.8 s against its 5 s limit, as on a debug build of main (5.2 to 5.7 s). On a release build: hot.test.ts 26 pass and 1 fail (does not take a promise of the program's, pending, which fails 9 of 24 runs on main too), watch.test.ts 17, test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts 12, test/bake/dev/bundle.test.ts 54 on the second run (2 timed out on a loaded machine in the first and pass alone). test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts with the new test: 109 pass on a release build and on a debug build of #41617, which has the same resolver change. No cfg-gated line changes. The tests ran on Linux x64 only here. CI build 135122 passed on every platform before the test with a Worker was added.

State. The branch has main 2596ac5 (merge 85136a1, 2026-11-08). After da867c6, #44833 changed VirtualMachine::_resolve: an absolute specifier also busts the folder as it is spelled, and the retry takes either answer (bust_dir_cache(..) || busted_as_spelled). The retry still needs a bust that answers true, so the race is the same. On a debug build of the source of main 2596ac5 the test with the Worker fails 5 of 5 runs and the test under --hot and --watch fails in 2 of 2 runs of its file. On a debug build of 85136a1 the test with the Worker passes 15 of 15 runs, the test under --hot and --watch passes in 4 of 4 runs of its file, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts has 113 pass and 0 fail, and the unit test passes. test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts has 28 pass in one of the 4 runs. In two runs a test of main fails (does not take a promise of the program's, which also fails in 1 of 2 runs on the source of main), and in one run stops the file watcher thread before the VM is freed at exit ended at its 5 s limit and the test after it failed in a hook. The first of the two then passed 12 of 12 runs alone, here and on the source of main. The numbers above are from before the merges of main.

Order. This PR lands first. #41617 is stacked on this branch and has the hot reloader's directory arm alone. That arm makes the race likelier at the first event of a process (13 of 2,000 starts never end, against 2 on main), so it must not land before this change.

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[robobun]

Status: reproduced on release builds of main 11c3671, and on debug builds of main 9b8347a, 271b65e and 2596ac5.

main.js writes gen.js and then does await import("./gen.js"). Under bun --hot the import fails with error: Cannot find module './gen.js' in 21 of 4,800 starts. A loop of 201 such lookups in one process (the test in test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts) has 12 to 19 failures in each run, under --hot and under --watch. With a Worker that drops the listing of the folder and no watcher (the test in test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts), the lookups fail in 30 of 30 runs.

With this branch: 0 of 1,600 starts, 0 failures in the loop, and the test with the Worker passes 400 of 400 runs, on a release build. The tests and the unit test pass on a debug build.

The branch has main 2596ac5 (merge 85136a1). On a debug build of the source of that main the test with the Worker fails 5 of 5 runs, and the test under --hot and --watch fails in 2 of 2 runs of its file. On a debug build of 85136a1 the test with the Worker passes 15 of 15 runs, and the test under --hot and --watch passes in 4 of 4 runs of its file.

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Walkthrough

BSSMapInner::remove now retains existing keys as UNASSIGNED. Tests cover repeated cache removal and hot/watch module lookups. Cache-bust documentation clarifies when these methods return true.

Changes

Cache Removal and Lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Cache removal semantics src/bun_alloc/lib.rs, src/resolver/lib.rs, src/jsc/hot_reloader.rs, src/resolver/resolver.rs	BSSMapInner::remove retains existing keys as UNASSIGNED. The unit test covers repeated removal, lookup results, and get_or_put behavior. Cache-bust comments describe when the methods report that a path or folder was looked up.
Hot/watch lookup validation test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts	Tests check module resolution during hot/watch execution and while a Worker invalidates a folder listing. They expect all generated modules to resolve and the subprocesses to exit successfully.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Low · up to 68273

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Follow-up findings are listed below so you can review them separately from inline comments.

Follow-ups (2)

🟡 Minor (2)

Minor · Remove the explicit 30-second timeout from the new test. · hot.test.ts:1382

test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts:1382
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the explicit 30-second timeout from the new test.

The new it block passes 30_000 as its third argument, which sets a per-test timeout. The repository's test guidelines say: "Do not set a timeout on tests. Bun already has timeouts." Remove the argument so the test uses the runner's default timeout. If the test then runs too long, shrink its workload instead of raising the limit.

🐛 Suggested fix

-  }, 30_000);
+  });

As per coding guidelines, "CRITICAL: Do not set a timeout on tests. Bun already has timeouts."

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Review comment at @test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts at line 1382:
Remove the explicit 30-second timeout argument from the new it block so the test
uses the runner’s default timeout.

Source: Coding guidelines

Minor · Compare the resolved file with the written file in the generated-module… · hot.test.ts:1359-1363

test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts:1359-1363
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Compare the resolved file with the written file in the generated-module loop.

The loop discards the return value of require.resolve, so a lookup that succeeds with a different existing file records no miss. The test then passes. A basename check does not close this gap, because it accepts any file with the same name in another search directory. Compare the resolved file with the written file by real path instead.

-    require.resolve(name, { paths });
+    const found = require.resolve(name, { paths });
+    if (fs.realpathSync(found) !== fs.realpathSync(path.join(here, name))) missed.push(name);

This is a test-assertion gap, not a production resolver defect. In this fixture, here is the only search path that exists, so the current test does not return a wrong file. The assertion still cannot detect one.

As per the test guidelines, every assertion must be able to fail and should assert the strongest invariant.

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Review comment at @test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts around lines 1359 - 1363:
In the generated-module loop, capture the path returned by require.resolve and
compare its real path with the real path of the expected written file under
here; add name to missed when they differ, while preserving the existing
handling for resolution failures.

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Review comments at @test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts:
- Line 1382: Remove the explicit 30-second timeout argument from the new it
block so the test uses the runner’s default timeout.
- Around line 1359-1363: In the generated-module loop, capture the path returned
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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 checked the four consumers of the bust result (VirtualMachine::_resolve, the transpiler entry-point retry, and both bundle_v2 sites): each retries at most once, so the now-more-often-true answer cannot loop. Nothing iterates or sizes BSSMapInner::index, and put on a kept UNASSIGNED key takes a fresh slot exactly as the base did after a vacant re-insert, so value-slot behavior is unchanged. The concurrent DirInfo slot read at src/resolver/resolver.rs:2647 is pre-existing and not widened here; remove still mutates the index under the map mutex as before.

Extended reasoning...

The change alters BSSMapInner::remove in the process-global resolver cache so busted keys persist as UNASSIGNED instead of being deleted, plus doc-comment updates, a Rust unit test, and a --hot/--watch integration test; it touches no security-sensitive surface. A human should weigh the memory-growth tradeoff and the --watch test's reload-loop exposure already flagged inline; the retry sites and the map's other accessors were traced and do not introduce new looping or slot leaks.

[robobun]

Both findings are taken in 969432a.

• The loop compares the real path of what require.resolve returns with the real path of the file that it wrote. A lookup that finds another file is a miss.
• The hard-coded 30 s is gone. The test uses longTimeout, the constant of this file (30 s on a release build, no limit on a debug build). I did not use the default limit: the test takes 1.5 to 2.1 s on a debug build here, and most of that is the start of the process, which is too close to 5 s for a slower debug lane.

The same push makes the program write first.js only once, so a run that --watch starts again cannot start itself again, and registers the two cases with it.each.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• Unresolved: 1 minor or pre-existing.

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Nitpick comments: 1

src/resolver/lib.rs: 1

2341-2343: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that put restores a busted key.

The test checks that get_or_put reports Unknown after remove, but it never stores a value under that key. A put that fails to restore the entry would still pass.

🧪 Suggested test addition

-        let again = map.get_or_put(b"/cached").unwrap();
+        let mut again = map.get_or_put(b"/cached").unwrap();
         assert!(matches!(again.status, ItemStatus::Unknown));
         assert!(!again.has_checked_if_exists());
+        map.put(&mut again, 9).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(map.get(b"/cached").copied(), Some(9));

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Review comment at @src/resolver/lib.rs around lines 2341 - 2343:
Update the test around `get_or_put` and `map.put` to verify that restoring the
removed key persists its value: make the returned entry mutable, put a value
through it, and assert that `map.get` returns that value for the key.

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- Around line 2341-2343: Update the test around `get_or_put` and `map.put` to
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[robobun]

The finding on the unit test in src/resolver/lib.rs (assert that put restores a busted key): done in dcc3252.

After the two remove calls the test puts a new value under the kept key and reads it back. Then it removes the key again and reads nothing. cargo test -p bun_resolver dir_cache_tests passes.

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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 note on the Worker test, I also checked that the new "true whenever the key was ever looked up" answer cannot loop a retry: all four callers that retry on a true bust (_resolve via the consumed retry_on_not_found, the entry-point path in transpiler.rs, and both bundle_v2 sites via had_busted_dir_cache) retry at most once. I also traced the Worker's gen/missing miss to the buster path <dir>/gen, so the new resolve.test.ts case does exercise the same folder the main thread resolves from.

Extended reasoning...

The only change since the last review is the added Worker-based test in test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts; the BSSMapInner::remove change and the hot.test.ts case were already reviewed. The one open item is a nit on the new test's failure wiring, posted inline.

[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked whether remove now answering true forever could make a retry site spin: all four consumers (VirtualMachine::_resolve, Transpiler::resolve_entry_point, both bundle_v2.rs sites) clear their retry flag before the single retry, so each miss busts and re-resolves at most once. Nothing iterates or counts BSSMapInner::index, so the kept UNASSIGNED key is only observable through get/get_or_put/put, which already treated that sentinel as never-put.

Extended reasoning...

The change alters BSSMapInner::remove in src/bun_alloc/lib.rs to keep the key with an UNASSIGNED sentinel instead of erasing it, updates three doc comments, and adds a Rust unit test plus two subprocess tests; no security-sensitive surface is touched. The unbounded-retry concern was ruled out by reading the four call sites that branch on the return value, each of which guards with a one-shot flag.

Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.

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Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

I pushed 4ccf683, 3651d1d and 68273dd. All three change tests only. The source is the source of dcc3252, which passed CI build 135122 on every platform.

A test of the kept key with no watcher thread (test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts). A Worker fails a lookup in the folder each time the main thread has written a module there. That lookup drops the cached listing of the folder. The main thread then looks the module up. On main the lookup fails, because the bust of the main thread finds no key and the lookup is not tried again.

The findings of the review on that test, taken in 3651d1d and 68273dd:

• The Worker reads the count of written modules before its lookup. Before, a request between its add to gate[2] and that read got no answer, and the last wait of the main thread could time out with the Worker alive.
• A Worker that stops fails the test: the main thread asks for one more lookup at the end and waits for it.
• This test and the test under --hot and --watch assert { stdout, stderr, exitCode } as one object, so a failure shows what the program printed to stderr.

Runs of the test with the Worker at 68273dd:

build	result
main, release	fails 30 of 30
this branch, release	passes 400 of 400
this branch, debug with ASAN	passes 15 of 15

The test under --hot and --watch passes 80 of 80 runs on a release build with the fix and 10 of 10 on the debug build. On a release build of main it fails 60 of 80.

#41617 is now stacked on this branch. Its base is robobun/f5936e98/bust-keeps-key, so it has the directory arm alone. This PR lands first: that arm makes this race likelier (13 of 2,000 starts never end, against 2 on main and 0 with this fix).

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Review comments at @test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts:
- Line 377: Update the fixture’s startup Atomics.wait to use a deadline long
enough for normal Worker startup under debug and ASAN builds, and make the
fixture exit nonzero if the wait times out.
- Around line 397-400: Update the Worker and final-check logic around gate[0]
and gate[2] so gate[2] records the request value the Worker last served, rather
than counting lookups. After issuing the final request, have the main thread
wait until gate[2] reaches that request value, timing out if it does not; do not
let an unrelated lookup satisfy the check.

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• test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts
• test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts

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[robobun]

I pushed 5775e75, a change to the test with the Worker only. It takes both findings of the review of 68273dd.

• Each wait of the program for its Worker has a limit of 5 s: the wait for the start of the Worker, and the wait at the end.
• The wait at the end is for the last request. The Worker stores the count that it answered, and the main thread waits until that count is the last one.
• The test has a limit of 20 s, so the program reports a Worker that stopped before the runner ends the test. A Worker that throws at its start fails the test with the Worker stopped before its first lookup, and one that throws after 50 requests with the Worker stopped before its last lookup.

The test fails 30 of 30 runs on a release build of main. It passes 400 of 400 on a release build with the fix and 15 of 15 on the debug build of this branch.

[claude]

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

[robobun]

Taken in a0907b8. The comment at each of the four retry sites now reads Only re-query if the folder was ever looked up. Another thread can have busted it first., and the doc of bust_entries_cache says "looked up". The commit changes comments only.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

I merged main 271b65e into this branch (77db64e). The merge had no conflict.

main changed the retry site since the last push: #44833 made VirtualMachine::_resolve also bust the folder of an absolute specifier as it is spelled (bust_dir_cache(..) || busted_as_spelled). The retry still needs a bust that answers true, so the race is the same on that main.

On debug builds:

source	test with the Worker	test under --hot and --watch
main 271b65e	fails 5 of 5	fails 10 of 10
this branch, 77db64e	passes 5 of 5	passes 10 of 10

On the build of 77db64e, test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts has 28 pass and 0 fail, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts has 113 pass and 0 fail, and the unit test passes.

The one red test of the last CI run, test/aot/parallel/node-http/objects-closed-through-others.ts on macOS x64, is not a test of this PR. #47316 changed it on main, and this branch now has that change.

[claude]

Code review found no issues

No high-confidence issues detected in this change.

[robobun]

I merged main 2596ac5 into this branch (85136a1). The merge had no conflict.

The last CI run of this PR (build 136958) was red on tests that failed on main itself. main is close to green again: its build 138398 passed 174 of 175 jobs. So this run can show the state of the PR alone.

On debug builds:

source	test with the Worker	test under --hot and --watch
main 2596ac5	fails 5 of 5	fails in 2 of 2 runs of its file
this branch, 85136a1	passes 15 of 15	passes in 4 of 4 runs of its file

On the build of 85136a1, test/js/bun/resolve/resolve.test.ts has 113 pass and 0 fail, and the unit test passes. Two tests of main in test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts are not stable on a debug build, here and on the source of main. The Notes of the body have the details.