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run: name the node alias directory after the executable - #47724
bun run --bun gives scripts node and bun links to its executable. Their directory is per user and commit: /tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha> (src/install/lib.rs:416).
A second executable of that build re-points the links (lib.rs:651) that scripts of the first use.
Worst case, not user-reported: BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app run --bun quick with a compiled app. A script of the real bun then runs the app as node: entry:-e, error: script "slow" exited with code 3.
Fix
The name ends with a hash of the executable path: /tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha><16 hex>.
Windows: a nested bun run adopts its folder only if node.exe there is the same file.
Verified: test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts fails without the fix (build 136815) and passes with it (build 136852), also on Windows. Self-reviewed: 11 concerns raised, 11 addressed.
Background
POSIX links are symlinks, Windows links are hard links.
BUN_BE_BUN=1 makes a compiled executable (bun plus a program) the bun CLI.
Each bun run: +3 allocator calls, +1 readlink when nested. Release text: +768 B.
Nothing removes the directories: one (3 inodes) for each executable path of a build, before one for each build. On Windows each keeps a deleted bun.exe (86 MB).
Notes
Reproduction of the worst case (Linux x64)
cat > package.json <<'EOF'{ "scripts": { "slow": "sleep 4; node -e \"console.log('node is ' + process.execPath)\"", "quick": "true" } }EOFecho'console.log("entry:" + process.argv[2]); process.exit(3);'> app.ts
bun build --compile app.ts --outfile app
bun run --bun slow &
sleep 1.5
BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app run --bun quick
wait
main (cee9dd9, release build): slow prints entry:-e, then error: script "slow" exited with code 3.
This PR: slow prints node is <path of bun> and exits 0. The app has its own directory.
On main, any second executable in place of the app does the same to the links. The script of the first executable then runs the second one. The error text shows only with a compiled app, because its program is not bun.
The alias is also made without --bun, when no node is in PATH.
The name
main
this PR
POSIX
/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha>
/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha><key>
POSIX, debug build
/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-debug
/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-debug-<key>
Windows, %TEMP% on the drive of the executable
%TEMP%\bun-node-<sha>
%TEMP%\bun-node-<sha><key>
Windows, other drive, bun.exe
<folder>\bun-node
<folder>\bun-node
Windows, other drive, other file name
<folder>\bun-node
<folder>\bun-node-<key>
<key> is 16 hex digits: bun_wyhash::hash (the function behind Bun.hash) of the path that the links point to.
On Windows the key is of the image path, with ASCII letters in lower case. Beside the executable it is of the file name only, and bun.exe has no key there.
No separator follows the SHA. The name still matches bun-node-<hex digits>, which a tool outside bun tests for (openclaw scripts/preinstall-package-manager-warning.mjs:279).
The rule does not change. POSIX: bun reads the link. If it is not a link to the executable, bun replaces it once (lib.rs:672-682). bun never removes a link that matches. Windows does the same with the identity of the file.
With the key, a link of another executable is not in the directory. An entry that differs is one that bun did not make: a hand edit, a copy of /tmp that follows links, a hash collision.
Windows: a link that is another file is from before a new file got this image path, as in an upgrade. A step of the "beside the executable" case checks that such links are made again.
One flag changed in the Windows loop: the image is opened with O::NOFOLLOW, as the link already was. Read from the code, not run: for an image path that is a symlink, CreateHardLinkW links the symlink, so main compared the target with the symlink and replaced the links on every run.
The first version of this PR replaced no link on POSIX. An entry that differed stayed, and bun made no alias, with no message. Review found that. The loop of main is back (commit 7ccb0ea), and a test puts a link to another path and a file in the directory.
This PR is on main and not stacked. src/install/lib.rs is +116/-103. It has no rename-aside step.
The trigger is any second executable of one build under one user, not an overwrite by hand. Every debug build shares bun-node-<uid>-debug. The npm package makes bunx.exe a hard link of bun.exe (packages/bun-release/src/npm/install.ts:133). Each node_modules/bun of one version is one more copy.
REVIEW.md:40: "Cache keys cover every input that shapes the output".
A maintainer decides the order. This order has the least rework:
run: build the --bun node shim directory from the temp dir env vars #46794 (temp root from the env vars). It rewrites bun_node_dir(), as this PR does. A trial merge conflicts in src/install/lib.rs and in the test file. After it, node_links() takes its root, the new POSIX tests set BUN_TMPDIR to a folder of their own, and removeOwnAlias in the test goes away.
Linux x64. Release builds of main cee9dd9 and of this PR (7ccb0ea), built in one directory. Every run was in a private mount namespace with an empty /tmp. 20 packages where a count is for --filter.
bun-node syscalls: non-aliasing getuid 1 -> 1. --bun cold 3 -> 3, warm 6 -> 6. --filter over 20 packages 120 -> 120. Second executable 10 (2 unlink) -> 3 (0 unlink). Compiled app with BUN_BE_BUN=1 10 (2 unlink) -> 3 (0 unlink). (ptrace count of bun's own syscalls, main vs PR)
Reads of /proc/self/exe: 1 -> 1 in a top-level bun run. 0 -> 1 in a bun run that a script starts, where npm_execpath is set already. The key needs the path.
allocator calls in path_for_run: non-aliasing 18 -> 21. Warm --bun 29 -> 32. Per package under --filter after the first 24 -> 24. (gdb count, debug build, main vs the first version of this PR. The code that makes the name is the same now, and the loop is the loop of main.)
link code text 2,852 B -> 3,617 B. path_for_run 2,441 B -> 2,441 B. Command::start 1,750 B -> 1,750 B. Release text +768 B (140,286,972 -> 140,287,740). Data and bss do not change. (llvm-nm, llvm-size, main vs PR)
static +24 B (24 -> 48, .data). Hash passes: +1 in each bun run process, also in one that makes no alias. The name is made there, and the name has the key.
PATH entry / NODE / npm_node_execpath: +16 / +16 / +16 bytes (25 -> 41). npm_execpath does not change.
link directories for 3 bun copies + 1 compiled app: 1 -> 4 (3 -> 12 inodes). The bound is one directory (3 inodes) for each executable path of a build for each user, until the temp directory is cleaned. On main it is one for each build for each user.
Windows: not measured, there is no Windows machine here. Read from the code: the two hard links keep the data of an executable after its path is deleted, until %TEMP% is cleaned. main keeps one executable for each build. This PR keeps one for each image path of each build. bun.exe 1.4.2 for x64 is 86,096,984 bytes.
What ran, and what did not
Linux x64, debug build with ASAN, bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts: 322 pass, 9 skip, 0 fail. The compiled case skips there, because the app is a copy of the executable and a debug build is 1.6 GB.
Linux x64, release build of this PR: the four POSIX cases pass, with a node in PATH and without one.
Release build of main (cee9dd9) and bun 1.4.2: the four POSIX cases fail at the first assertion, on the name. On the build of main: Expected: "bun-node-<uid>-cee9dd927e3688b4d10010b90", Received: "bun-node-<uid>-cee9dd927". A test starts no second executable before that assertion, so a run on an old bun does not change the links that other tests share.
Windows: the code compiles for x64 and arm64. It ran in CI first (builds 136823 and 136852, below). Before that, its name logic (the two locations, the key, the separator) ran on Linux with stubs for exe_path_w(), GetTempPathW and the file identity. A release build, a debug build and a build with no SHA have 0 failures in 51, 50 and 51 cases. Each of 14 mutants of that logic fails.
CI without the fix, build 136815 (the first commit has only the tests): bun-run.test.ts fails on the 11 lanes that ran it, in the new cases only. Linux and macOS: the four POSIX cases, at the assertion on the name (three on the ASAN lane, where the compiled case skips).
The same build on Windows 2019 x64 and Windows 11 aarch64: 430 pass, 11 skip, 5 fail, on every attempt. The five are the first case, the compiled case and the three Windows cases. bun.exe and other.exe share bin\bun-node. Two paths of one file share %TEMP%\bun-node-a8733b625. A bun-node\node.exe of 7 bytes that the test wrote becomes a link to bun (149,876,736 bytes on x64).
CI with the fix, build 136852 (commit 7ccb0ea): bun-run.test.ts passes on the 11 lanes that ran it. Windows 2019 x64 and Windows 11 aarch64: 435 pass, 11 skip, 0 fail. Debian 13, Ubuntu 25.04, Alpine 3.23 and macOS (x64 and aarch64 each): 323 pass, 8 skip, 0 fail. Debian 13 x64 with ASAN: 322 pass, 9 skip, 0 fail. Build 136823 had the same counts on 10 lanes for commit 682c99f, before the loop of main came back.
The macOS x64 lanes ran only in build 136852. They did not start in builds 136815 and 136823.
Keep the shared directory, and keep a link while its executable lives: the second executable then has no alias, and a dead link still gives entry:-e.
A directory for each process, as the node-gyp script of bun install has (src/install/PackageManager.rs:1382, removed at exit): a script can live longer than its bun run, and each run would make and remove two links.
Deno has this alias since feat(cli): provide a node on PATH when Node.js is not installed denoland/deno#34969 (cli/node_compat_shim.rs): one DENO_DIR/node_compat_bin, which it validates and re-points with a rename. A rename keeps a link present, but a running script still gets the other executable. In bun a compiled app is the same binary and writes the links while BUN_BE_BUN=1 is set.
bun run --filter checks the links once for each package: 120 link syscalls for 20 packages, as on main.
Nothing removes the directory of an executable that is gone. Review proposed the file identity as the key, or the removal of such directories when bun makes a new one. A copy for each project is another file and still gets a directory, and a reused inode brings back a link to a dead path. The removal is a new delete under a shared temp root on the path of a first run.
no test proof · iteration 2 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts
A second executable of one build (a copy, a moved binary, a compiled
executable that runs as bun) takes the node and bun links of the first one
while scripts of the first one use them. These cases fail until the name
of the directory has the executable in it.
The directory of the node and bun links that bun run and bun install put in
PATH was named after the user and the commit. Two executables of one build
shared it: the second one pointed the links at itself while scripts of the
first one used them.
The name now ends with a hash of the path of the executable. On POSIX a link
that is in the directory is never replaced. On Windows a nested bun run takes
the folder of its image for the directory only if node.exe there is the same
file, not because of the name of the folder.
Reproduced on Linux x64 with a release build of main (cee9dd9). One shell runs bun run --bun slow. Then BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app run --bun quick runs, where app is bun build --compile output. The script of the real bun prints entry:-e and ends with error: script "slow" exited with code 3. The exact steps are in the Notes of the description.
Reproduced on Windows in CI. The first commit has only the tests, and build 136815 ran them on the source of main. Five cases fail there on Windows 2019 x64 and on Windows 11 aarch64.
With the change (build 136852, commit 7ccb0ea), test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts passes on each lane that ran it: Windows 2019 x64, Windows 11 aarch64, Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, ASAN) and macOS (aarch64 and x64).
The red tests of build 136852 are not from this change. They are in test/aot/, test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts and test/js/web/request/request-clone-leak.test.ts (ASAN lane). The test/aot files are red in build 136815 too, which has no source change.
The change derives node alias directory keys from executable paths on POSIX and Windows. It updates how existing aliases are checked and reused. New tests cover executable-specific directories, nested runs, and existing links.
POSIX and Windows derive alias directory keys from executable paths. Tests cover distinct executables, nested runs, symlink spellings, compiled executables, and Windows path behavior.
Existing link checks src/install/lib.rs, test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts
POSIX link creation retries after removing a differing existing entry. Windows compares file identities when checking existing hard links. Tests cover foreign entries and an existing user node.exe.
Possibly related issues
oven-sh/bun#44090 — The change derives alias directories from executable paths, which relates to the issue’s alias stability objective. The summaries do not establish that it implements stale-link refresh.
oven-sh/bun#42048 — The change distinguishes executable paths, but it does not establish separate alias directories for different users running the same executable.
Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 7ccb0
The executable-specific alias changes have no established merge-blocking regression. The remaining observations concern pre-existing error handling and optional test coverage.
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Cover a foreign node link in the alias directory test.
The POSIX foreign-link test checks only a foreign bun link. No test replaces the node link in the alias directory. Both names use the same EEXIST handling in src/install/lib.rs. A change that affects only the node entry would pass this test set. Add a separate case that replaces node with a foreign file and asserts that the link and PATH are unchanged.
🧪 Suggested test
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+ it.skipIf(isWindows)(+ "a foreign node link in the directory stays, and PATH does not get the directory",+ async () => {+ using dir = tempDir("bun-run-node-alias-foreign-node", {+ ...files,+ "package.json": JSON.stringify({ name: "alias", scripts: { alias: "node alias.js", path: 'echo "$PATH"' } }),+ "not-node": "",+ });+ using cleanup = new DisposableStack();++ const alias = await aliasOf(bunExe(), String(dir));+ const second = secondBun(join(String(dir), "second", "bun"));+ const secondAlias = await aliasOf(second, String(dir), bunEnv, cleanup);+ expect({+ sameDirectory: dirname(secondAlias) === dirname(alias),+ second: startsExecutable(secondAlias, second),+ }).toEqual({ sameDirectory: false, second: true });++ const foreign = join(String(dir), "not-node");+ const nodeLink = join(dirname(secondAlias), "node");+ unlinkSync(nodeLink);+ symlinkSync(foreign, nodeLink);++ const { stdout, stderr, exitCode } = await run([second, "run", "--bun", "path"], String(dir));+ expect({+ link: readlinkSync(nodeLink),+ inPath: stdout.split(delimiter).includes(dirname(secondAlias)),+ stderr,+ exitCode,+ }).toEqual({ link: foreign, inPath: false, stderr: '$ echo "$PATH"\n', exitCode: 0 });+ },+ );+
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Review comment at @test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts around lines 1802 - 1804:
Add a separate POSIX-only case in the alias-directory tests that replaces the
`node` entry with a foreign file, then verifies the foreign link remains
unchanged and the alias directory is excluded from `PATH`. Reuse the existing
alias setup and assertions where appropriate, while keeping this case distinct
from the foreign `bun` link test.
Add a Windows test for a mismatched node.exe at the selected alias path.
Add a Windows test for a mismatched node.exe at the selected alias path.
The Windows alias tests all start with a fresh alias directory. None places a hard link to another file at the selected node.exe path. The ALREADY_EXISTS branch in src/install/lib.rs deletes that stale link and retries. A change that keeps the stale link would start the wrong executable, and the suite would not detect it.
Add this test to the describe.if(isWindows) block, after "a folder that has the name of the directory keeps its node.exe":
Suggested test
+ it("an existing node.exe link to another file is replaced", async () => {+ using dir = tempDir("bun-run-node-alias-mismatch", nestedFiles);+ const bin = join(String(dir), "bin");+ const bun = secondBun(join(bin, "bun.exe"));+ const other = secondBun(join(bin, "other.exe"));+ const selected = join(bin, "bun-node", "node.exe");+ mkdirSync(dirname(selected), { recursive: true });+ linkSync(other, selected);++ const alias = await aliasOf(bun, String(dir), envWithTemp(otherDrive(String(dir))));+ expect({ alias: alias.toLowerCase(), bun: startsExecutable(alias, bun) }).toEqual({+ alias: selected.toLowerCase(),+ bun: true,+ });+ });
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Review comment at @test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts around lines 1964 - 1973:
Add a Windows alias test beside the existing “a folder that has the name of the
directory keeps its node.exe” case. Create a selected node.exe path that is a
hard link to a different executable, run aliasOf, and assert the returned alias
points to that path and starts the intended Bun executable, verifying the stale
link is replaced.
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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 refactor of create_fake_temporary_node_executable for lost behavior: the deleted caller-supplied optional_bun_path branch was dead (both callers, run_command.rs:2060 and PackageManager.rs:1361, pass an empty slice), and the out-param is still written only when a link target exists. The #30711 nested-run self-loop stays fixed on POSIX: self_exe_path() is hashed, so the inner run resolves to the outer run's directory and target.
Extended reasoning...
The change renames the bun run --bun node/bun shim directory to include a hash of the executable path on both POSIX and Windows, replaces the POSIX stale-link replacement with an early return, and adds nested-run detection by file identity on Windows; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Four inline findings (two substantive: silent alias loss on a foreign link, unbounded per-path temp directory growth) already signal that a human should weigh the design trade-off, so this note only records what else was ruled out.
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🟡 (optional) After merging, every distinct bun executable path that runs bun run --bun, bunx, bun create, or an install lifecycle script leaves a permanent new /tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha><16 hex> directory, where the base branch reused one dir per build. src/install/lib.rs:449-450 keys the dir on bun_wyhash::hash of the self path and nothing removes old dirs. Fix: bound the growth, e.g. remove sibling bun-node-<uid>-<sha>* dirs this user owns whose links no longer resolve, or key on file identity (dev/ino) so copies and per-project installs of one binary share a dir.
Why this was flagged
Trigger: any user whose bun path varies between runs: per-project node_modules/bun/bin/bun installs via npm, CI runners with per-job workspace paths, setup-bun/toolchain caches keyed by hash, copies made for benchmarking, or a compiled app run with BUN_BE_BUN=1. Each reaches node_links() from path_for_run (run_command.rs:2016) on every bun run, bunx (bunx_command.rs:957), --filter and bun create, and from PackageManager.rs:1361 for lifecycle scripts without node. src/install/lib.rs:450 builds a fresh dir name per path; lib.rs:653 creates it and no code path ever deletes one. On a persistent runner or shared dev box with a non-tmpfs /tmp, the per-user count grows without bound (one dir plus two symlinks each) and /tmp cleaners that skip recently-touched dirs never reclaim them, where the base branch kept exactly one dir per user and build. The PR text lists this as a downside but gives no bound. Remedy: key on executable identity rather than spelling, or prune stale sibling dirs owned by the same uid on creation.
Verification: Triggering condition: the same user runs the same bun build from more than one executable path. src/install/lib.rs:449-450 keys the dir on bun_wyhash::hash of self_exe_path() (line 432), so the directory name is unique per executable path. On the base the dir was one per build. No code removes old dirs, so each distinct path leaves a dir in /tmp that is never removed.
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Not changed in code. The description now states the bound: one directory (3 inodes) for each executable path of a build for each user, until the temp directory is cleaned. On main it is one for each build.
File identity as the key: a copy in each project is another file, so it still gets a directory. The links name a path, so two paths of one file need the replace again when one path goes away. A reused inode gives a new file the links of a dead path.
Removal of sibling directories whose target is gone: a rebuild in place removes the file for a moment. A first run of another executable in that moment takes the directory of a live executable from its running scripts. That is the kind of interference that this PR removes.
If a maintainer wants a removal step, it can be a follow-up.
The change before this one left such an entry in the directory of the node
alias and made no alias, with no message. main replaces the entry once. The
name of the directory now has the executable, so only an entry that bun did
not make differs. The rule of main is safe there, and the POSIX loop is the
loop of main again.
Tests: the entry is a link to another path, or a file. On Windows, another
file at the path of bun.exe gets its links made again. The Windows cases use
a hard link where a second path is enough. The two cases that need a copy do
not run on a Windows debug or ASAN build. The POSIX-only cases say why.
An entry that is not a link to the executable (POSIX). The loop of main is back: bun replaces the entry once. The commit before left the entry and made no alias, with no message.
A foreign node entry. The test now has bun as a link to another path and node as a regular file. bun replaces both.
A node.exe link to another file (Windows). A step in the "beside the executable" case gives the path of bun.exe to another file and checks that bun makes the links again.
Copies on Windows. The cases use a hard link where a second path is enough. Two cases copy once each, and they do not run on a Windows debug or ASAN build.
Skips. Each platform skip has a comment with its reason.
Two items are not changed. The reason is in each thread:
The exit for an argv[0] inside the directory when the path of the executable is unknown. main has the same exit.
The number of directories. The description now states the bound.
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Follow-up Comments
Keep a matching alias when readlink fails.
675-681: Minor · Functional Correctness · Low value
Keep a matching alias when readlink fails.
On Unix, bun_sys::readlink returns every error except EINTR, which it retries. unwrap_or(false) turns any such error into a mismatch, so the loop unlinks an alias whose target is argv0_z. Concurrent scripts that run through that alias can briefly fail to find node. Decide the correct handling of a readlink error before changing this branch, because returning early also drops the node directory from PATH for the current run.
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Review comment at @src/install/lib.rs around lines 675 - 681:
Update the alias-checking branch around bun_sys::readlink so a readlink error is
not treated as a confirmed mismatch that leads to bun_sys::unlink(dest).
Establish the appropriate error handling while ensuring the current run still
retains the node directory in PATH; do not simply return early if that drops it.
Cover the failed-unlink path for a directory at a foreign node entry.
1813-1815: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Cover the failed-unlink path for a directory at a foreign node entry.
The foreign-entry test unlinks each entry before it replaces that entry. The unlink always succeeds in this test, so the path where the unlink fails is never exercised. The replace loop in src/install/lib.rs discards the unlink result at both merge base and head. A directory at the node entry therefore reaches the same silent success path, and the test cannot detect a change to that handling.
Add a case that places a directory named node in the alias directory. Decide the expected outcome before writing the assertion. The current code returns success without a warning, so the assertion depends on whether that behavior should stay or change.
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Review comment at @test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts around lines 1813 - 1815:
Extend the foreign-entry test around `name`, `foreign`, and `entry` with a case
where the `node` entry is a directory, so unlink fails. Establish whether this
should remain silent success or produce a warning before adding the assertion;
make the test and replace-loop behavior at merge base and head agree with that
intended outcome.
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I re-reviewed after 7ccb0ea and found no bugs in the current version, but a maintainer should still weigh in: the change picks a new on-disk naming scheme for a world-shared temp location (one keyed directory per executable path, never removed) and roughly half of it is Windows-only code that cannot be type-checked on this Linux checkout.
What was reviewed:
The refactor of create_fake_temporary_node_executable into node_links(): the *optional_bun_path write, the nested-run Ok(None) early return, and the error propagation match the base branch's paths; both callers pass an empty optional_bun_path, so the deleted caller-supplied-target branch was dead.
The POSIX EEXIST branch again replaces a mismatching or unreadable entry once and the new test exercises both a foreign symlink and a regular file.
Windows windows_node_shim_dir: the bun-node* folder reuse is gated on (st_dev, st_ino) equality of node.exe with the image, so a user folder named bun-node with its own node.exe falls through; TEMP_DIR_NAME/key length accounting against buf includes the separator and \node.exe\0.
Test helpers: aliasDirName matches bun_wyhash::hash (seed 0, same as Bun.hash) and the 9-char GIT_SHA_SHORT; large-copy cases are skipped on Windows debug/ASAN with reasons.
Extended reasoning...
The change touches src/install/lib.rs (the POSIX and Windows code that creates the node/bun alias directory used by bun run --bun, bunx, and lifecycle scripts) and adds a new test block in test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts. The security-relevant surface is symlink/hard-link creation under /tmp or %TEMP%; the existing 0700/uid-ownership checks are unchanged and the EEXIST replace-once behavior from the base branch was restored in the latest commit. Since the prior review, three of four inline findings were addressed (replace-once restored, skip reasons added, large-copy cases skipped); the remaining one is the unbounded number of per-path directories, which the author documents as an accepted downside. Deferring rather than approving because the naming scheme is a design decision with downstream tooling and merge-ordering implications, and the Windows half cannot be compiled or run here.
On the two follow-up comments: both are about the loop that makes the links. That loop is the loop of main (src/install/lib.rs:630-657 on main). This PR changes one comment in it.
A readlink error counts as a mismatch. It is the same on main (:645-651). This PR does not change it.
A directory with the name node, where the unlink fails. It is the same on main: the loop does not read the result of the unlink. I did not add a test, because it would pin a result that nobody chose.
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Problem
bun run --bungives scriptsnodeandbunlinks to its executable. Their directory is per user and commit:/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha>(src/install/lib.rs:416).lib.rs:651) that scripts of the first use.BUN_BE_BUN=1 ./app run --bun quickwith a compiledapp. A script of the real bun then runs the app asnode:entry:-e,error: script "slow" exited with code 3.Fix
/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha><16 hex>.bun runadopts its folder only ifnode.exethere is the same file.test/cli/install/bun-run.test.tsfails without the fix (build 136815) and passes with it (build 136852), also on Windows. Self-reviewed: 11 concerns raised, 11 addressed.Background
BUN_BE_BUN=1makes a compiled executable (bun plus a program) the bun CLI.NODEandPATH: it rewritesrun_command.rs, which fix(run): point Node environment variables at shim executable #45042 and watch, --aot, run: report an unknown executable path instead of panicking #47370 change.Downsides
PATH,NODEandnpm_node_execpathgrow by 16 bytes. Windows: stable install-scoped aliases for --bun and run.bun #44090 stays open (the SHA stays).bun run: +3 allocator calls, +1readlinkwhen nested. Release text: +768 B.bun.exe(86 MB).Notes
Reproduction of the worst case (Linux x64)
slowprintsentry:-e, thenerror: script "slow" exited with code 3.slowprintsnode is <path of bun>and exits 0. The app has its own directory.--bun, when nonodeis inPATH.The name
/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha>/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-<sha><key>/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-debug/tmp/bun-node-<uid>-debug-<key>%TEMP%on the drive of the executable%TEMP%\bun-node-<sha>%TEMP%\bun-node-<sha><key>bun.exe<folder>\bun-node<folder>\bun-node<folder>\bun-node<folder>\bun-node-<key><key>is 16 hex digits:bun_wyhash::hash(the function behindBun.hash) of the path that the links point to.bun.exehas no key there.bun-node-<hex digits>, which a tool outside bun tests for (openclawscripts/preinstall-package-manager-warning.mjs:279)./private/tmpon macOS,/data/local/tmpon Android. run: build the --bun node shim directory from the temp dir env vars #46794 changes them.A link that exists already
lib.rs:672-682). bun never removes a link that matches. Windows does the same with the identity of the file./tmpthat follows links, a hash collision.bun --bun#4690 and Several copies of Bun accidentally share each other's /private/tmp/bun-node-* #27722 stay fixed. A moved executable, or a copy, has another path and gets another directory. The first new test moves an executable to check this.O::NOFOLLOW, as the link already was. Read from the code, not run: for an image path that is a symlink,CreateHardLinkWlinks the symlink, so main compared the target with the symlink and replaced the links on every run.The earlier attempt, #44117
bun-node-<16 hex>for Windows. It was closed with: "Not part of install: consolidate the open package manager pull requests #44968: stacked on install(windows): plant the node shim beside bun.exe so it works when %TEMP% is on another volume #44058; 170 lines for a bun.exe that was overwritten by hand."src/install/lib.rsis +116/-103. It has no rename-aside step.bun-node-<uid>-debug. The npm package makesbunx.exea hard link ofbun.exe(packages/bun-release/src/npm/install.ts:133). Eachnode_modules/bunof one version is one more copy.REVIEW.md:40: "Cache keys cover every input that shapes the output".node#7615, the uid in install: consolidate the open package manager pull requests #44968. using/tmp/bun-nodefor overriding node.js is incorrect #7504 and Several copies of Bun accidentally share each other's /private/tmp/bun-node-* #27722 asked for the executable path.Related open PRs
A maintainer decides the order. This order has the least rework:
bun_node_dir(), as this PR does. A trial merge conflicts insrc/install/lib.rsand in the test file. After it,node_links()takes its root, the new POSIX tests setBUN_TMPDIRto a folder of their own, andremoveOwnAliasin the test goes away.NODEnames the executable, not the directory). It merges cleanly with this PR.bun#47636 (Bun Shell starts a compiled executable as the bun CLI). It reaches this code withoutBUN_BE_BUNfrom the user. Its body says: "Merge this after the fix for that directory."unsafeblocks from the core crates, the resolver and the package manager #47414 deletes the same branch ofcreate_fake_temporary_node_executablethat this PR deletes (the caller-supplied link target). A trial merge conflicts there.Costs, measured
Linux x64. Release builds of main cee9dd9 and of this PR (7ccb0ea), built in one directory. Every run was in a private mount namespace with an empty
/tmp. 20 packages where a count is for--filter.--buncold 3 -> 3, warm 6 -> 6.--filterover 20 packages 120 -> 120. Second executable 10 (2 unlink) -> 3 (0 unlink). Compiled app withBUN_BE_BUN=110 (2 unlink) -> 3 (0 unlink). (ptrace count of bun's own syscalls, main vs PR)/proc/self/exe: 1 -> 1 in a top-levelbun run. 0 -> 1 in abun runthat a script starts, wherenpm_execpathis set already. The key needs the path.path_for_run: non-aliasing 18 -> 21. Warm--bun29 -> 32. Per package under--filterafter the first 24 -> 24. (gdb count, debug build, main vs the first version of this PR. The code that makes the name is the same now, and the loop is the loop of main.)path_for_run2,441 B -> 2,441 B.Command::start1,750 B -> 1,750 B. Release text +768 B (140,286,972 -> 140,287,740). Data and bss do not change. (llvm-nm, llvm-size, main vs PR).data). Hash passes: +1 in eachbun runprocess, also in one that makes no alias. The name is made there, and the name has the key.npm_execpathdoes not change.%TEMP%is cleaned. main keeps one executable for each build. This PR keeps one for each image path of each build.bun.exe1.4.2 for x64 is 86,096,984 bytes.What ran, and what did not
bun bd test test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts: 322 pass, 9 skip, 0 fail. The compiled case skips there, because the app is a copy of the executable and a debug build is 1.6 GB.nodeinPATHand without one.Expected: "bun-node-<uid>-cee9dd927e3688b4d10010b90",Received: "bun-node-<uid>-cee9dd927". A test starts no second executable before that assertion, so a run on an old bun does not change the links that other tests share.bun-run-bunfig.test.ts28 pass,multi-run.test.ts132,bunx.test.ts238,filter-workspace.test.ts131,as-node.test.ts12,bun-install-lifecycle-scripts.test.ts434.bun run rust:check-all: 12 targets ok.exe_path_w(),GetTempPathWand the file identity. A release build, a debug build and a build with no SHA have 0 failures in 51, 50 and 51 cases. Each of 14 mutants of that logic fails.bun-run.test.tsfails on the 11 lanes that ran it, in the new cases only. Linux and macOS: the four POSIX cases, at the assertion on the name (three on the ASAN lane, where the compiled case skips).bun.exeandother.exesharebin\bun-node. Two paths of one file share%TEMP%\bun-node-a8733b625. Abun-node\node.exeof 7 bytes that the test wrote becomes a link to bun (149,876,736 bytes on x64).bun-run.test.tspasses on the 11 lanes that ran it. Windows 2019 x64 and Windows 11 aarch64: 435 pass, 11 skip, 0 fail. Debian 13, Ubuntu 25.04, Alpine 3.23 and macOS (x64 and aarch64 each): 323 pass, 8 skip, 0 fail. Debian 13 x64 with ASAN: 322 pass, 9 skip, 0 fail. Build 136823 had the same counts on 10 lanes for commit 682c99f, before the loop of main came back.Other designs
NODEandPATH, and made the links once for all--filterpackages (120 link syscalls for 20 packages became 6). A review of that diff found that it rewrotepath_for_runand the caller inPackageManager.rs, which fix(run): point Node environment variables at shim executable #45042, watch, --aot, run: report an unknown executable path instead of panicking #47370 and Run install lifecycle scripts with bun as node under --bun and run.bun #45696 change, and that install(windows): keep the node shim path stable across upgrades #44117 was closed for its size. The key is the part that removes the bug.entry:-e.bun installhas (src/install/PackageManager.rs:1382, removed at exit): a script can live longer than itsbun run, and each run would make and remove two links.nodeon PATH when Node.js is not installed denoland/deno#34969 (cli/node_compat_shim.rs): oneDENO_DIR/node_compat_bin, which it validates and re-points with a rename. A rename keeps a link present, but a running script still gets the other executable. In bun a compiled app is the same binary and writes the links whileBUN_BE_BUN=1is set.Not in this PR
NODEandnpm_node_execpathname the directory, not thenodein it. fix(run): point Node environment variables at shim executable #45042 changes that.bun run --filterchecks the links once for each package: 120 link syscalls for 20 packages, as on main.NODEnames the directory also when bun makes no alias. That is so for each exit ofcreate_fake_temporary_node_executableon main.--bunsilently falls back tonodewhen/tmp/bun-node-<sha>is owned by another user #42048 reports one.no test proof · iteration 2 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/install/bun-run.test.ts