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Problem

• After one uncaught error, --hot and --watch sleep up to 1 s with work queued. A Worker's messages stop at 1024, and --watch can skip its kill-signal listeners.
• EventLoop::tick_possibly_forever (src/jsc/event_loop.rs:1389) polls for 1 s before it reads a queue, and an earlier poll took the wakeup.
• Regression of 1.4.0. uws: drop us_timer_t on epoll/kqueue in favor of bun's timer heap #33359 removed the 16 ms GC timerfd that ended this poll in 1.3.14. Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075 added yielded tasks.

Fix

• It first drains what other threads posted, promotes yielded tasks, reports rejections, runs the microtasks and reports again. With a task queued or the caller's loop alive, its poll does not block. That is the rule on has_pending_tasks (Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075).
• A failed reload's report runs the ticks and microtasks of an unhandledRejection listener.
• Verified: test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts (main fails the 23 new tests), the watch, hot and inspector suites. Self-reviewed: 28 concerns raised, 25 addressed. Not taken: a test of the 1 s bound, the Windows wake, a macOS run.

Background

• tick_possibly_forever is the idle wait of the --hot, --watch, bun test --watch and debugger loops.
• A yielded task (a Worker or MessagePort batch) continues after the next poll.
• Considered auto_tick_active as in Handle an error before the event loop sleeps, not at its next wake #45599: per-turn code, and the 23 tests still fail.

Downsides

• A failed run's yielded work runs to its end again, as in 1.3.14.
• Text grows by 1,024 bytes, an idle sleep by 288 instructions. Other processes never call it.
• A tick of a listener that the last report called still waits 1 s (Run the ticks and microtasks that 'unhandledRejection' listeners queue #45597). macOS and Windows ran only in CI.

Notes

Reach. No user reported this. A script found it during work on #41617: it saved a fix right after a failed reload, and the reload came about 1 s late. All numbers are from Linux x64 (epoll), release builds of main 34cbc70 and of this change on it, unless a line says debug.

Since when. This is a regression of 1.4.0. 1.3.14 passes every row that 1.4.0 to 1.4.4 and main fail. The builds are the releases of 1.3.14, 1.4.0 and 1.4.4, and debug builds of main 34cbc70 and of this change (c48e34a). Each column is 3 runs. A time runs from the moment the work waits to the moment it runs. "never" is not in 2.5 s.

Row	1.3.14	1.4.0	1.4.4	main	this PR
--hot: 5000 MessageChannel messages, then an uncaught error	4 to 9 ms	never	never	never	154 to 219 ms
The same with no error (control)	5 to 10 ms	20 to 94 ms	6 to 40 ms	157 to 251 ms	159 to 200 ms
--hot, failed reload: an immediate of its unhandledRejection listener	16 to 17 ms	1001 to 1002 ms	1001 ms	1003 to 1010 ms	1 to 3 ms
--hot, failed reload: a tick of the listener	16 to 17 ms	1002 ms	1001 to 1002 ms	1007 to 1009 ms	4 to 6 ms
--hot, no error: a rejection made in a timer reaches the listener	16 ms	1001 ms	1001 to 1002 ms	1004 to 1005 ms	1 to 4 ms
--hot: a fix saved when the error is printed	17 to 21 ms	1004 to 1032 ms	1005 to 1014 ms	1019 to 1033 ms	24 to 45 ms
Requests of 30 that take 900 ms or more after one stray rejection, --hot / --watch. The handler starts fs.readFile in a setImmediate	0 / 0	15 / 15	15 / 15	15 / 15	0 / 0
The same, and the immediate then runs 2 ms of code	0 / 0	21 / 25	22 / 19	22 / 22	0 / 0
The handler starts fs.readFile itself, then runs 2 ms of code	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0
Control: no rejection, the read in a setImmediate	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0	0 / 0

• 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 fail the same rows as 1.4.0 (1 run each).
• 1.3.14 leaves the same work behind. Its four late rows take 16 to 21 ms, and its MessageChannel rows take 4 to 10 ms. A request of its two immediate rows takes 16 to 17 ms (median), against 1 to 2 ms in the control.
• In 1.3.14 the sleep has no timeout (epoll_pwait2 with a null timeout). processGCTimer() arms a 16 ms one-shot timerfd right before it (scheduleGCTimer), and that timer ends the sleep. With the timer set to 3 s in gdb, and the repeating GC timer to 7 s, the timer row takes 3000 ms.
• uws: drop us_timer_t on epoll/kqueue in favor of bun's timer heap #33359 (in 1.4.0) made the GC timers nodes of the timer heap, which this function does not read. It gave the poll a fixed 1 s timeout. On 1.4.4 the process makes no timerfd call, and the sleep is an epoll_pwait2 with a 1 s timeout that returns 0 events.
• Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075 (in 1.4.0) added yielded tasks. On 1.4.4 the 1 s timeout ends the sleep each second, and the MessageChannel batch still does not continue (12 sleeps traced in gdb).
• So a timer that ends the sleep, as in 1.3.14, is not the fix. The work waits for the timer, and a yielded task never runs.
• The two causes are from gdb on the release builds and from the two diffs. I did not build the commits between the two releases.
• All of this is Linux x64. macOS has the same two changes (kqueue lost its timers in uws: drop us_timer_t on epoll/kqueue in favor of bun's timer heap #33359 too). On Windows the timer heap has its own uv timer, so from the code the 16 ms GC timer still ends the wait there. I ran neither.
• Not compared with 1.3.14: the kill-signal listeners of --watch (node compat batch: callback-throw dispatch, Assert class + native deep-equality parity, Intl gate + URL/buffer fallout, compile cache, watch kill-signal, profilers (+98 tests) #34660, new in 1.4.0), and yes into a buffer (in 1.3.14 that command ends in panic(main thread): Unexpected Task tag: 1012 in a plain run). The Worker fixture of the tests finishes on 1.3.14. It does not finish in 6 s on 1.4.0 and 1.4.4.

How the work gets left behind

1. The watch loop (src/runtime/cli/run_command.rs:1642) runs tick(), the reload report and auto_tick_active() while is_event_loop_alive(). When that is false, it calls tick_possibly_forever().
2. After an uncaught error, is_event_loop_alive() is false unless an immediate is queued (unhandled_error_counter == 0 && ..., src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs:1824). A reload resets the counter (Hardening follow-up: fix regressions from #46021 and more crashes #46270). So the state lasts until the next reload, and a failed reload enters it again.
3. The error is recorded in tick(), in the report, or in an immediate that auto_tick_active() runs. In each case auto_tick_active() still polls once after it.
4. Another thread posts a task and wakes the loop: the watcher thread posts a reload, the thread pool posts a file read, a Worker posts messages. If the wakeup comes before that poll ends, the poll returns for it. auto_tick_active() runs no tasks. The loop is not alive, so tick() does not run either.
5. tick_possibly_forever() polls for 1 s with the task in the queue. Its tick() runs the task after the poll.

Two kinds of work never reach the queue that the poll could be asked about:

• A signal. The signal handler writes to a ring that only tick_concurrent() reads. has_pending_tasks() does not see it. This case needs no error.
• A yielded task. auto_tick() and auto_tick_active() promote yielded tasks. tick_possibly_forever() did not, and after an error the watch loop reaches auto_tick_active() only while an immediate is queued. So the stall does not end after 1 s.

Measured

Case	main	this PR
Script of the report: fix saved when the error is printed, 24 cycles	16 cycles at 1005 to 1018 ms	0 cycles, all 2 to 13 ms
Fix saved while the failing run still runs, 20 cycles	20 sleep first, median 1009.5 ms	0 sleep first, median 7 ms
Signal listener after a failed run, signal sent from an immediate, 20 cycles	20 sleep first, median 1002 ms	0 sleep first, 0 ms
Immediate of an unhandledRejection listener of the failed reload, 20 cycles	20 sleep first, median 1002 ms	0 sleep first, 0 ms
Tick of the listener of a rejection that a timer made, 5 cycles	1001 to 1004 ms	0 to 1 ms
Report of a rejection that this tick made, 5 cycles	1001 to 1002 ms	0 to 3 ms
30 requests after one stray rejection. The handler starts fs.readFile in a setImmediate, and the immediate then runs 2 ms of code	19 (--hot) and 21 (--watch) take 900 ms or more	0
Same, without the 2 ms of code: setImmediate(() => fs.readFile(...))	13 of 30	0
Same, with no immediate: the handler starts fs.readFile itself and then runs 2 ms of code (debug builds)	0 of 30 under each flag	0
5000 Worker messages, 5000 MessageChannel messages, yes into a 1 MiB buffer, after an uncaught error	never finish	finish
--watch kill-signal listener, save made while the failing run still runs	not run, the watcher thread restarts the process after 500 ms	runs

• The times are wall clock, with the builds interleaved. A save outside the window takes 2 to 20 ms on main.
• The window of the first row is short: it is the poll of step 3. With the save delayed after the error, 5 of 8 cycles are late at 0 ms and at 30 ms, and 0 of 8 from 60 ms. With an idle Bun.serve whose fs callback throws, 6 of 6 are late at 0 ms and at 50 ms, and 0 of 6 from 100 ms. A tool that writes two files in a row hits it. A person does not.
• The request rows need no save. One unhandled rejection in a handler puts the process in the state of step 2. A request whose handler queues an immediate passes step 3 again. A handler that starts the read itself does not: the wakeup of the read ends the poll of this function, and its tick() runs the task. So that handler is late on no build. A healthy process on main has 0 of 30 late requests.
• The kill-signal promise is in docs/runtime/watch-mode.mdx:86 (node compat batch: callback-throw dispatch, Assert class + native deep-equality parity, Intl gate + URL/buffer fallout, compile cache, watch kill-signal, profilers (+98 tests) #34660). Its grace times do not change.

Relation to #45599. #45599 (open) makes auto_tick_active() poll without blocking after a fatal error, and reports rejections after the immediates. I applied its two source hunks to main 34cbc70 (debug build):

• The script of the report has 0 of 24 late cycles. So Handle an error before the event loop sleeps, not at its next wake #45599 also removes that symptom.
• The setImmediate then fs.readFile handler has 0 of 30 late requests. The handler whose immediate then runs 2 ms of code has 16 to 24 of 30, in two measurements of each flag.
• The 23 new tests still fail. Its poll still takes the wakeup, and it does not touch signals or yielded tasks.

The two changes share no line. Both can land.

Other related changes

• Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075 wrote the rule on has_pending_tasks (src/jsc/event_loop.rs:788) and applied it to auto_tick() and auto_tick_active(). It did not apply it to this function.
• Hardening follow-up: fix regressions from #46021 and more crashes #46270 decided what an uncaught error stops, and it resets the counter on each reload. Since then each failed reload can be late. Before, only the first one could. This PR keeps its unhandled_error_counter == 0 gate and leaves the timers stopped.
• bun test: don't park the event loop after a test file's entry promise settles #36453 (merged) is a related case in bun test: a poll slept after an earlier one took the wakeup.
• spawn: report a waiter-thread child exit after the loop's next poll #43888 (closed, not merged) first had the promotion at this poll and a Worker test in this file.
• hot/watch: keep driving timers and surviving errors after an unhandled error #38206 and hot: reset unhandled-error state on reload so timers recover after a failed reload #34657 (open) touch the same loop. This PR does not depend on them. It keeps the behaviour of Hardening follow-up: fix regressions from #46021 and more crashes #46270.
• Run the ticks and microtasks that 'unhandledRejection' listeners queue #45597 (open) adds a microtask checkpoint after the listeners in handleRejectedPromises, and repeats until no rejection is left. It leaves the direct call in the reload report without one, because its callers are "in a turn of the loop". The reload report is followed by a poll, so this PR adds the checkpoint there. The checkpoint in tick_possibly_forever has nothing left from the listeners once Run the ticks and microtasks that 'unhandledRejection' listeners queue #45597 is in.
• expect(promise).resolves/.rejects stalls up to ~1 s per setImmediate hop: the nested event loop blocks in the poll after running immediates #45020 and Microtasks queued in a setImmediate callback stay undrained until a timer fires (1.4.3+) #46558 report stalls in other polls, in bun test. bun test without --watch never calls this function. The script of expect(promise).resolves/.rejects stalls up to ~1 s per setImmediate hop: the nested event loop blocks in the poll after running immediates #45020 stalls for about 1 s on both builds.

Not changed here

• Windows, per-turn wake. The #[cfg(windows)] wake in auto_tick() and auto_tick_active() (src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs) covers yielded tasks and immediates, not has_pending_tasks(). Windows: wake the event loop when tasks are left in the queue after a tick #42968 (closed, not merged) has that change with a test that ran on Windows. I cannot run Windows here, and Windows: dispatch libuv events from the event loop, not from inside libuv callbacks #40023 rewrites those lines.
• A tick or a microtask of a listener that the last report of the sleep calls. The sleep reports, runs the checkpoint and reports again: it ends the way a turn of the loop ends. What the last listeners queue waits for the sleep: 1001 to 1007 ms on main, 1001 to 1004 ms with this PR. 1.3.14 runs it after 9 to 16 ms. Run the ticks and microtasks that 'unhandledRejection' listeners queue #45597 runs the checkpoint in handleRejectedPromises: with its native hunks on the first commit of this PR, a debug build runs it after 1 to 3 ms.
• The 1 s bound. The watch loop of bun run adds the entry point to the watcher again on each return. No test pins the bound. A test of it passes on main, so it proves nothing about this change.
• Timers after an uncaught error stay stopped (Hardening follow-up: fix regressions from #46021 and more crashes #46270). An interval of a failed run fires at most once after the error on both builds, in 5 fixtures.
• Coordinator::drive of bun test --parallel has its own bounded poll. It ticks before each poll and its process runs no JS. Debugger's Wait::Shortly has no caller. tick_while_paused polls I/O only.

Platforms. I ran Linux only. The rest is from the code and from CI.

• epoll: one poll returns for one wakeup.
• kqueue: us_loop_run_bun_tick reads pending_wakeups before it polls. A wakeup that ends a blocking poll also makes the next poll return at once. So the script of the report may show no delay on macOS. A wakeup that a non-blocking poll took is gone as on Linux, and the yielded-task stall needs no wakeup.
• libuv: tick_with_timeout ignores its timeout and runs uv_run(UV_RUN_ONCE), so the wait on Windows has no 1 s bound. tick_without_idle is a non-blocking uv_run.
• Linux runs all 23 tests. macOS and Windows run 9: the 6 yielded-work tests, the 2 request tests and the kill-signal test. Those 9 pin the promotion, the has_pending_tasks() term and the zero-timeout poll. The other 14 read /proc/<pid>/syscall. They alone pin the drain in front, the two reports, the two checkpoints and the is_event_loop_alive() term.
• CI on the first commit: the 9 tests pass on macOS x64 and arm64 and on Windows x64 and arm64. No macOS or Windows build of main ran them.

Tests

• The sleep ends by itself after 1 s, so a test that waits for the work passes on main too. 14 tests read the system call that blocks the main thread from /proc/<pid>/syscall. They fail if the thread is in the 1 s poll between the two marker files that the script writes: queued when the work waits, ran when it ran.
• The kernel prints running there for a thread that is not blocked. So a loop of polls that return at once never looks asleep: 2000 of 2000 samples of such a loop read running, and 2000 of 2000 samples of a blocked poll read 441.
• The trigger is an immediate of the failing run. The loop runs immediates right before the poll that takes the wakeup. For a save, the script waits until the watcher thread has handled it (BUN_WATCHER_TRACE).
• No test asserts on a time.
• Two rows keep a timer of the first run alive. The loop then reports the failed reload from a turn, right before the poll of that turn, and only the checkpoint after the report runs the listener's tick. Their child runs with BUN_GC_TIMER_DISABLE=1: the idle GC timer would end that poll within a second.
• A row knows the sleep by the timeout argument of its poll. A signal that interrupts the poll restarts it with another argument (checked with SIGPWR, which JSC uses to suspend a thread), and the row then misses the sleep. So on a release build of main one of the 23 passes in 2 of 100 runs of the file, a different row each time. The file fails in 100 of 100.
• The tests run concurrently, except the kill-signal test: the 500 ms of the watcher thread are wall-clock time. The file ends every child it started, because bun:test does not end the child of a concurrent test that times out. The file takes 2.7 s on a release build and about 14 s on a debug build. On main it takes 10 s and leaves no process.
• If /proc/<pid>/syscall cannot be read, the test fails at once with the path.
• The tests are in watch.test.ts. hot.test.ts has entry-promise tests ("does not take a promise of the program's ...") that fail in 11 to 12 of 20 debug runs on main, and in 12 of 20 with this change. test(hot): remove two races from the entry-point promise tests #44666 is open for them.

Tests that fail when one clause of the fix is removed (debug build):

Clause removed	Failing tests
tick_concurrent() in front	2: a signal after a failed run, after a good run
promote_yield_tasks()	9: the 6 yielded-work tests, the 2 request tests, the MessageChannel batch row
both reports in the sleep	2: the report of a rejection from a timer, the report of a rejection from a tick of the listener
the first report	3: a tick and a microtask of the listener of a rejection from a timer, the report of a rejection from a tick of the listener
drain_microtasks() in the sleep	3: the same three
the second report	1: the report of a rejection from a tick of the listener
has_pending_tasks() term	8 to 10: the reload row, the kill-signal test, a signal after a failed run, the MessageChannel batch row, the 2 request tests, the 2 shell tests. The Worker and MessageChannel delivery tests fail in some runs: four sleeps of 1 s against a 5 s limit
is_event_loop_alive() term	2: a timer and an immediate of the listener
the poll when work is queued	2: a request between the batches, both flags
the checkpoint after the reload report	2: a tick and a microtask of the listener in a live loop

Cost

• tick_possibly_forever: 436 to 1533 bytes. report_exception_in_hot_reloaded_module_if_needed: 584 to 878 bytes. The debugger thread entry no longer inlines a copy: 2887 to 2451 bytes. 3 of about 142,800 text symbols changed size. Text: 137,414,914 to 137,415,938 bytes. Symbols: 188,856 to 188,855 (nm -S, size).
• Per-turn code is unchanged. auto_tick, auto_tick_active, is_event_loop_alive, EventLoop::tick, tick_concurrent_with_count and us_loop_run_bun_tick have the same disassembly after address normalization (6 of 6).
• Calls of tick_possibly_forever in a plain run, in 300 in-process fetches, and in a healthy --hot server: 0, 0, 0 on both builds (gdb counters). Polls in the plain run: 2 on both.
• Instructions per idle sleep outside the poll: 615 to 903 (gdb stepi, 5 sleeps, all equal). Per 20 idle sleeps: 60 drains, 20 polls and 20 Bun__JSC_onBeforeWait calls on both builds. The drain moved, it was not added.
• Idle bun --hot: 10 wakes in 10 s after a good run and after a failed run, 0 to 1 CPU ticks, on both builds.

Self-review. Not taken, with the reason:

• A test that pins the 1 s bound: see "Not changed here".
• The Windows wake: see "Not changed here".
• A macOS run before merge: I have no macOS machine. CI runs the 9 portable tests on macOS and Windows.

Suites run on the debug build of this change

• test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts: 25 pass. main: 2 pass, 23 fail. Release build of this change: 25 pass in 20 of 20 runs.
• Pass: test/cli/watch/watcher-trace.test.ts, test/cli/hot/watch-many-dirs.test.ts, test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts, test/cli/test/test-changed.test.ts, test/cli/inspect/inspect.test.ts, test/cli/inspect/bun-inspector-protocol.test.ts, test/js/node/inspector/inspector.test.ts, test/js/bun/cron/in-process-cron.test.ts, test/js/bun/resolve/bun-main-entry-point.test.ts.
• test/cli/watch/watch.test.ts: all pass but "--watch reports an error when its executable was deleted" in some runs. It copies the 1.6 GB debug binary. It fails the same way on the debug build of main when the binary is not in the page cache, and passes alone on both.
• Some tests take about 5 s or more on a debug build and fail the 5 s default limit in some runs, on main too: 3 in test/cli/bake/bake.test.ts (3.5 to 9.8 s on both builds), 1 in test/js/bun/module-graph/module-graph-isolation.test.ts (4.4 to 5 s on both builds), 3 in test/js/bun/module-graph/module-graph.test.ts in one run of three.
• hot.test.ts passes in this run. Its entry-promise test named above fails in other runs, on main too.
• cargo check -p bun_jsc is clean for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin.

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Status: ready for review. PR: #47525

How I reproduced the problem (Linux x64, release build of main 34cbc70):

• bun --hot main.js, where main.js imports ./dep.js. Delete dep.js, wait for the error, restore it, then save main.js at once. The reload comes 1005 to 1018 ms after the save in 16 of 24 cycles. With this change it takes 2 to 13 ms in 24 of 24.
• A Bun.serve handler that starts fs.readFile from a setImmediate and then runs 2 ms of code, under --hot or --watch. After one unhandled rejection, 19 to 21 of 30 requests take 900 ms or more. With this change, 0 of 30.
• bun test test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts: the 23 new tests fail on main and pass with this change.
• Since when: the release build of 1.3.14 runs the same work after 16 to 21 ms. The releases 1.4.0 to 1.4.4 take 1 s, or never finish. So this is a regression of 1.4.0.

CI: test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts passes on every lane of build 136075 (37892ac): Linux x64 and arm64, musl, ASAN, macOS and Windows. The red jobs fail on test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts. That test fails on main too, and this PR does not touch it.

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^{Updated 7:12 AM PT - Oct 31st, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 37892ac has 1 failures in Build #136075 (All Failures):

• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 3.23 aarch64
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 3.23 x64
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64-asan
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 2019 x64
• test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts - code 1 on 🪟 11 aarch64

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The event loop processes concurrent work, yielded tasks, and rejected promises before polling. It uses a non-idle tick when work is pending or the loop is alive, and otherwise uses a one-second timeout. Hot/watch tests cover queued work, restart behavior, and Linux blocking-poll behavior.

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Event-loop polling and hot/watch regressions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pre-poll work and polling behavior src/jsc/event_loop.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs	The loop processes concurrent work, promotes yielded tasks, and handles rejected promises before polling. Rejected hot-reload entry-point promises also drain microtasks. The loop uses tick_without_idle() when tasks are pending or the event loop is alive; otherwise, it polls with a one-second timeout.
Hot/watch queued-work and restart tests test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts	Tests cover queued Worker, MessageChannel, and shell-builtin work after an uncaught error. They also cover requests during Worker message batches and SIGTERM listener output before a watched process restarts.
Linux blocking-poll tests test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts	Linux-only tests check queued reloads, signals, callbacks, rejection handling, and MessageChannel work around blocking polls. Live-loop cases disable the GC timer.

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Follow-up Comments

Fail fast when /proc//syscall is unreadable.

81-87: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Fail fast when /proc/<pid>/syscall is unreadable.

blockingPoll returns undefined for every read error. The child.until calls at lines 358 and 370 then wait for a defined value. If procfs is missing or restricted, the wait lasts until the test timeout, and the timeout message does not name the cause. Check that the file is readable once before the loop, and fail with a message that names the path.

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Review comment at @test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts around lines 81 - 87:
Update the setup around blockingPoll to check that the target
/proc/<pid>/syscall file is readable once before polling begins, and fail
immediately with an error message that names the path if it is not. Keep
blockingPoll’s polling behavior unchanged after the check.

Make the sleep checks distinguish a blocking poll from a zero-timeout poll.

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Make the sleep checks distinguish a blocking poll from a zero-timeout poll.

blockingPoll returns the fourth syscall field for every recognized epoll call. On the epoll_pwait2 path (441), a zero-timeout poll still gives a non-null pointer. On the epoll_pwait fallback (281, 22), it gives "0". Both values are defined. The !== undefined waits at lines 157 and 370 therefore pass for a poll that does not block, so they cannot detect a busy loop that is sampled inside such a call.

The helper's doc comment says it returns the timeout of a blocking poll, but it returns the argument of any recognized epoll call. The epoll_pwait2 argument is a pointer, and /proc/pid/syscall does not expose the timeout it points to. A check that separates the two cases needs a different signal. That signal is not established yet, so no edit is proposed here.

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Review comment at @test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts around lines 83 - 84:
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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 whether the new non-blocking branch in tick_possibly_forever can busy-loop: all three callers (run_command.rs, test_command.rs, Debugger.rs) only enter it while is_event_loop_alive() is false, and when the up-front tick_concurrent()/promote_yield_tasks() makes it alive or queues tasks, the trailing tick() drains them and the caller's loop goes back to auto_tick_active(), which parks — so no spin from the branch itself.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the idle wait of the --hot/--watch/test-watch/inspector loops in src/jsc/event_loop.rs (drain cross-thread work, promote yielded tasks and report rejections before parking; park only when nothing is queued and the loop is not alive), adds a microtask drain after a reported unhandled rejection in src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, and adds 18 Linux-sensitive subprocess tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Inline findings were posted, so approval is not on the table; the note records the spin concern that was examined and ruled out from the callers' loop structure.

[robobun]

Answers to the two follow-up findings and to the list of related issues:

Fail fast when /proc/<pid>/syscall is unreadable. Fixed in 24e7617. blockingPoll treats only ENOENT and ESRCH as "the process is gone". Every other error throws cannot read /proc/<pid>/syscall: <code>, so the test fails at once and names the path.

Distinguish a blocking poll from a zero-timeout poll. No change to the checks is needed. The kernel makes this distinction already.

• /proc/<pid>/syscall shows the system call only for a thread that is blocked. For a thread that runs, it prints running (task_current_syscall returns -EAGAIN when the task state is TASK_RUNNING). A thread inside a poll that returns at once is in that state.
• I checked with a small C program on kernel 6.1. A loop of zero-timeout epoll_pwait2 calls reads running in 2000 of 2000 samples. A blocked epoll_pwait2 reads 441 in 2000 of 2000.
• So a loop that spins cannot pass the !== undefined waits. The doc comment of blockingPoll now says this.

Possibly related issues. This PR fixes none of the three.

• expect(promise).resolves/.rejects stalls up to ~1 s per setImmediate hop: the nested event loop blocks in the poll after running immediates #45020 and Microtasks queued in a setImmediate callback stay undrained until a timer fires (1.4.3+) #46558 report stalls in other polls, in bun test. bun test without --watch never calls tick_possibly_forever. The script of expect(promise).resolves/.rejects stalls up to ~1 s per setImmediate hop: the nested event loop blocks in the poll after running immediates #45020 stalls for about 1 s on main and with this change.
• event loop: never re-enter from inside a dispatch callback (de-block expect().resolves and HTMLRewriter.transform, then assert) #33261 is about re-entry of the event loop. This PR does not change that.

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[claude]

The new commit addresses all three points from my earlier review (microtask checkpoint after handle_rejected_promises in tick_possibly_forever, blockingPoll now rethrows errnos other than ENOENT/ESRCH, and the subprocess cases run with test.concurrent). I found no bugs in this version, but because it changes the idle wait shared by --hot, --watch, bun test --watch and the debugger thread, and runs user JS before the park, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• tick_possibly_forever: the pre-poll tick_concurrent/promote_yield_tasks/handle_rejected_promises/drain_microtasks sequence and the has_pending_tasks() || is_event_loop_alive() branch; both tick_without_idle and tick_with_timeout exist on the POSIX and Windows uws::Loop, and the removed post-poll tick_concurrent is covered by tick()'s next_task refill.
• The discarded Stopped/bool results match every sibling park site (auto_tick, auto_tick_active, run_command.rs, Debugger.rs).
• report_exception_in_hot_reloaded_module_if_needed: the new drain_microtasks runs inside a loop that re-reads pending_internal_promise() each iteration, so JS run by a listener cannot leave it holding a stale cell.
• Test harness changes: afterAll SIGKILL sweep, start/alive helpers, pipes drained concurrently, and the one serial test states its wall-clock reason.

Extended reasoning...

The diff changes EventLoop::tick_possibly_forever in src/jsc/event_loop.rs so the hot/watch idle wait takes in concurrent tasks, promotes yielded tasks, reports pending rejections and drains microtasks before polling, and polls non-blocking when work is queued or the loop is alive; src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs adds a microtask drain after reporting a failed reload; test/cli/hot/watch.test.ts adds 18 concurrent subprocess cases plus a Linux-only /proc-based probe of the parked syscall. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The second push resolved every inline comment from the prior run and the hunt ran dry with no findings. It is still not approved outright because the function is the shared park of four driver loops, it now runs user JS before the poll, the author states a behavior change (a failed run's yielded work now completes) and that macOS and Windows were not exercised, and no CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths to route the review.

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[robobun]

Since when. This is a regression of 1.4.0. I ran the same two scripts on the release builds (Linux x64, 3 runs each).

• 1.3.14 passes every row. 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4 and main 34cbc70 fail the same rows: the work runs 1 s late, or never. With c48e34a every row passes.
• 1.3.14 leaves the same work behind. Those rows take 16 to 21 ms there, against 4 to 10 ms for the controls. Its sleep has no timeout, and a 16 ms one-shot timerfd of the GC controller ends it (scheduleGCTimer). With that timer set to 3 s in gdb, the row takes 3000 ms.
• uws: drop us_timer_t on epoll/kqueue in favor of bun's timer heap #33359 (in 1.4.0) moved the GC timers to the timer heap, which tick_possibly_forever does not read, and gave its poll the fixed 1 s timeout. On 1.4.4 the process makes no timerfd call, and the sleep is an epoll_pwait2 with a 1 s timeout that returns 0 events.
• Worker / worker_threads: WebCore-shaped lifetimes, joined threads, one ordered VM teardown #37075 (in 1.4.0) added yielded tasks. The rows that never finish need one.
• The two causes are from gdb on the release builds and from the two diffs. I did not build the commits between the two releases.
• One correction to the request rows: they need a handler that starts fs.readFile in a setImmediate. A handler that starts the read itself and then runs 2 ms of code is late on no build (0 of 30 requests under each flag).

The numbers per row are in the Notes of the description, under "Since when".

[claude]

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

Beyond the inline nit, I checked that dropping the trailing tick_concurrent() from tick_possibly_forever loses nothing: tick() refills from the concurrent queue at the start of tick_turn (src/jsc/event_loop.rs:839), so the post-poll behaviour is unchanged. I also checked the other callers (src/jsc/Debugger.rs:558, src/runtime/cli/test_command.rs:2703) — each sits in the same while is_event_loop_alive { tick; auto_tick_active } shape, so the new non-blocking branch hands an alive loop back to auto_tick_active's bounded park rather than spinning. The three threads from the earlier review are addressed in 24e7617/c48e34ab (blockingPoll rethrows every errno but ENOENT/ESRCH, the matrices are test.concurrent.each, and the idle wait drains microtasks between its two reports).

Extended reasoning...

The change reorders the idle wait of --hot/--watch/bun test --watch/debugger (tick_possibly_forever) to drain cross-thread and yielded work and report rejections before polling, makes the poll non-blocking when work is queued, and adds a microtask drain after a failed reload is reported; no security-sensitive surface. It is a core event-loop scheduling change with one open nit about an untested load-bearing line, so a maintainer look is still worthwhile.

[claude]

I reviewed the latest push and found no bugs; the points from my earlier inline comments (concurrent cases, blockingPoll error handling, the drain before the park, a live-loop row for the VirtualMachine.rs drain) are now in the code. Because this changes the idle path shared by --hot, --watch, bun test --watch and the debugger loop, a maintainer's look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• tick_possibly_forever: dropping the post-poll tick_concurrent is safe since tick() refills from the concurrent queue itself; handle_rejected_promises clears non-termination exceptions internally, so the discarded results leave nothing pending for the following tick().
• The non-blocking branch maps to us_loop_pump on Windows, so no explicit wakeup is needed as in auto_tick; the non-blocking poll / tick alternation cannot spin without progress because tick() consumes every task that made has_pending_tasks true.
• BUN_GC_TIMER_DISABLE and BUN_WATCHER_TRACE are read by src/; the one candidate ruled out was that the two "in a live loop" rows cannot fail on kernels without epoll_pwait2 (pre-5.11), which only weakens the test on old kernels and does not affect the runtime change.

Extended reasoning...

The diff changes EventLoop::tick_possibly_forever in src/jsc/event_loop.rs to drain concurrent and yielded tasks, report rejections and run microtasks before choosing between a non-blocking poll and the existing 1 s park, adds one drain_microtasks call in src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs after a failed hot reload is reported, and adds ~370 lines of Linux-aware subprocess tests. It touches no security-sensitive surface (no auth, parsing of untrusted input, or data exposure). All earlier inline feedback from this bot was addressed by later commits, the hunt ran dry with no findings, and the third-party threads were resolved by a non-author. The change is still deferred rather than approved because it alters the idle semantics of a core event-loop path used by four run modes, where a non-obvious scheduling interaction is best judged by a maintainer who owns the loop.