[robobun]

Problem

• ls with several operands or -R prints in completion order, which changes between runs. ls a b d1 d2 prints a file below a directory header in 95 of 200 calls.
• Ls::on_shell_ls_task_done (src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs:197) wrote each per-operand pool task's result on completion.

Fix

• Pool tasks stat the operands and one orders the results. A main-thread cursor writes each task's output (a section) depth first.
• Order (POSIX, GNU): errors as typed, then files, then directories, each group sorted by byte. -t, -S, -r and -U apply.
• Verified: test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts (48 to 50 of 51 new tests fail on main), all of test/js/bun/shell/. Self-reviewed: 44 concerns raised, 35 addressed. Rejected (Notes): PR split, entry sort, typed default.

Background

• Shell builtins run file system work as pool tasks that post results to the interpreter's thread.
• Considered replaying per-operand results in typed order: a task and a write per operand remain.

Downsides

• A maintainer must choose the default: ls b a prints a first (main: b first in 391 of 400 calls). ls -f lists hidden entries (POSIX).
• A large ls -R holds sections until their turn: 24.7 to 38.1 ms for 17,055 directories (main: 21.3 to 25.8), RSS 65.7 MB (62.1). stat runs in sequence for up to 15 operands: 13 ms for 12 at 1 ms each (main: 2 ms).
• File operands over 64 KB are one write: a stalled blocking pipe holds the JS thread 460 ms (main: 6 ms, shell: write one pipe slot per POLLOUT to a blocking stdout or stderr (Linux) #46307). ls d1 d2 d3: 38 to 43 us (main: 31 to 32). .text: +12,032 bytes.

Notes

No user reported this and there is no issue. The shell fuzzer found it. ls has written in completion order since the shell shipped: the released 1.4.2 gives 13 outputs in 200 calls of ls a b d1 d2.

Decisions for a maintainer

1. Sorted or typed order by default. The branch sorts each group of operands by byte. That is POSIX, and GNU ls in the C locale. -U keeps the typed order. With two operands main prints the typed order nearly always: ls b a in 391 of 400 calls in one process, ls db da in 398, and ls dir file in 398. So the output changes for those callers: ls b a prints a first, and ls dir file prints file before the dir: section. The typed order as the default is a small change: the default of Opts::sort becomes Sort::None, and the tests and the docs follow. The files still come before the directories then, and ls part-* prints in glob order until shell: sort the matches of each glob by byte on the pool thread #47825 lands.
2. Which release takes this. The change is silent for a script: no error, another order. shell: sort the matches of each glob by byte on the pool thread #47825 and shell: glob each brace variant in one pool task, and keep a variant with no match #33423 wait for the same answer for the order of glob matches.

What a script sees

The fixture has the files part-01 to part-12 and the directories d1, d2, d3, each with one file x. The table gives the lines in order. GNU also prints a blank line between sections.

Command	Now, and GNU ls 9.7 with LC_ALL=C
ls d3 part-03 d2 part-01 d1	part-01, part-03, d1:, x, d2:, x, d3:, x
ls -d d2 part-03 d1 part-01	d1, d2, part-01, part-03
ls -r part-01 d1 part-03 d2 part-02 d3	part-03, part-02, part-01, d3:, x, d2:, x, d1:, x
ls -U d2 part-02 d3 part-03 d1 part-01	part-02, part-03, part-01, d2:, x, d3:, x, d1:, x
ls d1 part-01 d1 part-01	part-01, part-01, d1:, x, d1:, x
ls -R t	the listing of t, then each subdirectory, each before its own subdirectories
ls nope-b part-01 nope-a (stderr)	nope-b, then nope-a

On main these lines have several outputs. ls a b d1 d2 gives 5 outputs in 200 calls, and in 95 of them a file is below a directory header, so it reads as an entry of that directory. On 1.4.2, ls -R t prints the header of a subdirectory before the listing of t in 10 of 200 calls.

Two differential runs against GNU ls:

• 40 command lines (-d, -r, -U, -f, -R, -a, -A, -l, an operand named twice, missing operands, symlinks, absolute paths, a trailing slash). The order of the operand entries, of the sections and of the errors is the same as GNU's for all 40 (main: 11 of 40 in one run). The entries inside one directory are compared as a set.
• 352 operands in a shuffled order (300 files, 40 directories, 12 missing names), compared line by line without GNU's blank lines. ls, -r, -U, -d, -dr, -t, -rt, -S, -rS, -tU, -Ut, -R, -1 and -a are the same as GNU. -l, -lt, -lS and -lr list the same names in the same order (GNU also prints a total line). -f differs only inside a directory, where GNU prints . and .. in the order of the file system.

With stdout and stderr on two descriptors of one pipe (bun exec 'ls ...' 2>&1 in an outer shell), the same 352 operands give 1 transcript in 60 runs for each of ls, -R, -l and -d (main: 60 in 60).

Other changes a script can see

• -f lists hidden entries, . and .., also with no operand or one operand (POSIX: -f turns on -a). On main -f did nothing. In a directory of x and .y, ls -f printed x, and now prints ., .., .y, x.
• -r, -t, -S and -U change the order of operands only. With no operand or one operand the output is the same as on main.

Not as GNU yet, and not changed here

• The entries inside one directory are in the order of the file system, not sorted. So a plain ls prints one order that is not sorted, -r, -t and -S do not apply to entries, and the -R sections of one directory follow that order. That sort is the follow-up, for the same release, so that the sort flags change their meaning once. shell: sort ls builtin output by name (POSIX) #33993 has an implementation. A stale sweep closed it with no objection from a maintainer.
• -X, -v, -c and -u are accepted and do nothing. -t uses the modification time.
• There is no blank line between sections, no total line with -l, and no header for the top directory of ls -R dir.
• The error text is Bun's, and the exit code for a failed operand is 1 (GNU: 2).
• An option after an operand is an operand (ls dir -R). -- is shell: accept -- end-of-options delimiter in builtins #33995.
• The order is by byte. GNU in a language locale such as en_US.UTF-8 sorts by that locale.

How the order is made

• Zero or one operand: one task, as on main. Its section is written when it completes.
• Two or more operands: the operands are split into parts of at least 8, at most one part for each pool thread. A task runs stat on its part. It makes the entry of each operand that is not a directory, and it schedules a subtask for each directory at once. One more task puts the results of all parts in order. With fewer than 16 operands there is one part, and its task also does the ordering.
• The cursor: each task with a section has a slot. A parent names the slots of its subtasks in the order of their sections. The main thread writes the section of the slot whose turn it is, and keeps a section that arrives early in a list indexed by slot.
• Chunks: sections are joined into one chunk up to 4 KiB. A larger section is one chunk, as on main. ls -RA . > file over 17,055 directories makes 884 writes to the file (main: 17,055).
• Two streams: stdout and stderr can be two writers on one file (a terminal, or fd 1 and fd 2 on one pipe). There the order of the writes shows, so a chunk of one stream waits until the chunks of the other stream are written. ls compares the two descriptors with fstat (device and inode), once, the first time a chunk of one stream meets a chunk of the other that is not written yet. Two destinations (a pipeline stage and a terminal, or a file and a pipe) do not wait for each other, as on main: a reader that does not drain stdout does not hold back an error on stderr. Where both streams are one writer (2>&1 in the shell line), or one is a buffer, nothing waits. On Windows a started pipe or console writer has no descriptor to compare. So two writers keep the order there and wait for each other, as on a terminal.
• The sort runs on a pool thread, through the shared bun_collections::index_sort. The comparator is the one shell: sort the matches of each glob by byte on the pool thread #47825 uses for glob matches (compare_source_paths, then bytes). By reading, echo a*/f and ls a*/f then agree on Windows too. Operands that are in order already cost one pass and no sort.
• ls no longer uses OutputTask. An OutputTask queues the stdout of a result when the chunk of its stderr completes. Sections of different tasks cannot stay in order through that. mkdir, touch and cp still use it.
• -R: the cases that the fuzzer found have no -R. The same function writes the results of operand tasks and of -R subtasks, so the order of -R sections is part of this change. It is depth first, as GNU.

The same class in other builtins, not in this PR

40 runs of each line on this branch, count of distinct outputs: rm -v of 12 files 39, rm of 12 missing files 40, rm -rv of a tree 13, mkdir -v of 12 names 40, mkdir of 12 names that exist 40, touch of 12 paths in a missing directory 40, mv of 12 missing sources 2. The builtin cp -v (BUN_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_SHELL_BUILTINS=1, or Windows) gives 40. cat gives 1.

These builtins race the effects too, not only the text. On main, mkdir a a/b exits 1 with mkdir: a/b: No such file or directory in 48 of 200 runs, and rm -d a/b a exits 1 with rm: a: Directory not empty in 5 of 200. GNU never does. An ordered writer does not repair that: they have to act on the operands in order. So they are separate changes, and the cursor stays in ls.rs. #47689 covers the error reports of rm and mv.

The async fs.readdir(dir, { recursive: true }) also joins its results in completion order: 48 orders in 60 calls on one tree, where Node gives 1. #45394 orders the entries of one directory and leaves that join alone.

Costs, measured

Builds: main at 3bf1a06 and this branch on top of it. Counts of tasks, chunks and allocator calls are from debug builds. Syscalls, times and sizes are from release builds with the same flags. Linux 6.1 x64, 12 cores, ext4. Each cell is main, then this branch. The 17,055 directories are test/ of this checkout with its installed packages, and the 882 directories are src/. The counts and times are from d586121. c922f99 changed only the rule for two streams, and the size is from it. The commit after it changed comments only.

A caller that never had the bug (ls with no operand or one operand, no -R) gets no new task, dispatch, syscall or allocation. There are 2 fewer allocator calls, and a file operand runs 1 stat where it ran 2. Two allocations that exist on main are larger (see Sizes).

Command (bun exec)	Pool tasks	Chunks	Allocator calls	openat	stat	write
ls d1	1, 1	1, 1	17, 15	4, 4	0, 0	2, 2
ls part-01	1, 1	1, 1	20, 18	4, 4	2, 1	2, 2
ls	1, 1	1, 1	18, 16	4, 4	0, 0	2, 2
ls nope	1, 1	2, 1	25, 25
ls part-01 ... part-12	12, 1	12, 1	155, 48	15, 3	24, 12	24, 2
ls d1 d2 d3	3, 4	3, 2	35.4, 37.1 to 37.3	6, 6	0, 3	6, 6
ls -d d1 d2 d3	3, 1	3, 1		6, 6	0, 3	6, 2
ls -R t (5 directories)	5, 5	5, 5	53.6, 46.6 to 47.4	8, 8	0, 0	10, 9
ls part-03 d2 part-01 d1 nope	5, 3	6, 3	69.5, 54	8, 5	6, 6	10, 7

• Pool tasks and chunks: counted in the SHELL debug log. A dispatch on the main thread happens once for each pool task.
• Allocator calls: __rust_alloc, __rust_alloc_zeroed and __rust_realloc, counted with gdb breakpoints. The figure is for one statement: the count for 12 copies of the line minus the count for 4, divided by 8. echo hi gives 11 on both builds.
• With a captured sink (Bun.$ with .quiet()), all allocator calls of the process from the ASAN statistics, per call: ls d1 174 and 172, ls part-01 177 and 175, ls 175 and 173, twelve files 304 and 205, ls d1 d2 d3 192 and 196.
• Syscalls: gdb catch syscall (strace is not installed here), minus the counts of bun exec 'true'. write includes one 8-byte wake of the event loop for each pool task.
• ls d1 d2 d3 is the one line that costs more: one more pool task (the one that orders the operands), one stat for each operand, and 2 to 4 more allocator calls.
• An ls that has an error and a listing on two writers runs fstat twice, once for the call, when a chunk of one stream is not written yet as the other stream starts. The process of bun exec 'ls part-03 d2 part-01 d1 nope' then makes 9 fstat calls, where main makes 7. Other calls run none.

Time, captured (await $ with .quiet())	main	This branch
ls d1	26 to 27 us	26 to 27 us
ls part-01	27 to 28 us	19 to 28 us
ls	21 to 28 us	28 to 30 us
ls part-01 ... part-12	48 to 50 us	24 to 36 us
ls d1 d2 d3	31 to 32 us	38 to 43 us
ls -d d1 d2 d3	29 to 31 us	30 to 31 us
ls -R t	40 to 42 us	38 to 41 us
ls *, 5,000 files	8.0 to 9.0 ms	2.7 to 3.1 ms
ls *, 20,000 files	33.5 to 35.1 ms	12.0 to 12.4 ms
ls *, 100,000 files	153 to 185 ms	64.7 to 67.4 ms
1,000 directory operands	1.44 to 1.74 ms	1.50 to 1.71 ms
5,000 directory operands	6.9 to 9.3 ms	8.1 to 8.9 ms
20,000 directory operands	31.0 to 33.0 ms	35.8 to 40.2 ms
ls -RA ., 882 directories (165 KB)	1.16 to 1.26 ms	1.25 to 1.43 ms
ls -RA ., 17,055 directories (3.7 MB)	21.3 to 25.8 ms	24.7 to 38.1 ms
same, longest hold of the event loop thread	1.1 to 2.3 ms	4.4 to 6.5 ms
ls -R ., one directory of 20,000 subdirectories	26.3 to 29.5 ms	26.1 to 32.7 ms
ls -lRA ., 50,000 files and 100 subdirectories of 2,000	61.8 to 64.3 ms	63.5 to 67.6 ms

• Each cell is the range of the medians of interleaved sets of calls in one process (3 sets of 2,000 calls for the small lines, 3 to 5 sets of 6 to 100 calls for the others).
• The small lines have a noise floor of about 8 us: the median of one build moves by that much from set to set. So the lines with one operand or none are not resolved. The 7 to 11 us of ls d1 d2 d3 repeat in every set.
• For 17,055 directories, four of the five sets of the branch are between 24.7 and 31.5 ms. An earlier session gave 23.6 to 28.6 ms, and 19.8 to 24.0 ms for main.
• 20,000 directory operands cost 3 to 9 ms more: the added stat calls and the sort. Up to 5,000 the difference is inside the spread.
• For scale, GNU ls -RA . on the 17,055 directories takes 119 ms as a whole process. It reads one directory at a time.

Other sinks	main	This branch
ls -RA . > file, 17,055 directories	29.7 to 32.1 ms	31.2 to 33.2 ms
ls -RA . > file, 882 directories	1.65 to 1.97 ms	1.54 to 1.92 ms
bun exec 'ls -RA .' into a pipe, 17,055 directories: first byte	2.5 ms	2.6 ms
same: 10% of the bytes	14.3 ms	30.7 ms
same: half of the bytes	39.8 ms	32.7 ms
same: exit	62.8 ms	36.7 ms

• The pipe rows are medians of 61 interleaved rounds with a reader that drains the pipe.

Sections that wait. The pool reads the directories of ls -R in parallel, and the cursor writes them depth first, so most sections arrive before their turn. Counted with temporary counters in a release build of this head, 5 runs of ls -RA . over the 17,055 directories: 14,501 to 16,468 sections waited at one time, with 3.1 to 3.6 MB of the 3.7 MB of output (4.6 to 5.3 MB of buffer capacity). The list of waiting sections has one slot of 72 bytes for each task, and is not allocated when nothing waits. Peak RSS of one captured call: 65.7 to 65.8 MB (main: 57.8 to 62.1 MB), medians of 9 runs in two sessions.

• The first section is written at once, so the first byte is as early as on main. Most of the rest is written when the walk is nearly done, where main writes while the walk runs. That is the later 10% mark on the pipe, and the longer hold of the event loop thread.
• An earlier head scheduled the subtasks of a directory in reverse order, so that the pool, which takes the newest task first, would read the first subdirectory first. It changed nothing: 16,106 to 16,452 sections waited. So a subtask is scheduled when its entry is read, as on main.
• Not done: a limit on how many sections one dispatch writes. It needs a way to continue from the event loop, which is a new task type.
• Not done: a bound on the bytes that wait. They are at most the size of the listing, and a captured ls holds the whole listing on main too. A bound is possible: above a limit, a task returns its subdirectories with its section, and the main thread schedules them when that section is written. The walk then runs close to one directory at a time. That trades speed for memory on very large trees.

A pipe that does not drain. The shell polls a blocking pipe and then writes one whole chunk. A chunk larger than the free room of the pipe holds the thread in write until the reader drains it. #46307 bounds that write, and says which kernels and sinks block. On main each file operand is its own small chunk. Here all file operands are one chunk, like the listing of one directory. A non-quiet $ in a script with stdout on a pipe, a reader that starts after 0.5 s, longest hold of the event loop thread:

Command	main	This branch
ls of 3,000 file operands (48 KB)	0.8 to 1.9 ms	0.6 to 1.0 ms
ls *, 5,000 files (80 KB)	1.4 to 1.5 ms	472 to 476 ms
ls *, 20,000 files (320 KB)	4.1 to 6.1 ms	459 to 466 ms
ls, one directory of 20,000 entries (320 KB)	472 to 477 ms	473 to 477 ms
ls *, 20,000 files, a reader that reads at once: whole call	68.7 to 70.6 ms	16.0 to 18.8 ms

Slow lookups. A seccomp supervisor delays the first stat or open of each operand, as a network file system with a cold cache would. Not measured on a real network mount.

• 1,000 operands, 100 us each. File operands: 29.7 to 32.1 ms on main, 13.4 to 14.4 ms here. Directory operands: 13.1 to 14.1 ms and 21.0 to 22.1 ms. That difference is the supervisor's own cost for the added stat call of each operand: with no delay the same run takes 8.6 to 9.3 ms and 16.7 to 19.1 ms. A file system with no attribute cache pays one more round trip for each directory operand.
• Few operands, 1 ms each. main runs one task for each operand, so the lookups overlap. Here one task runs the stat calls of up to 15 operands in sequence, as GNU ls does, and 16 or more are split into parts of at least 8.

Operands, 1 ms for each first lookup	main	This branch
2 files	1.3 to 1.5 ms	2.2 to 2.3 ms
12 files	1.6 to 2.6 ms	12.8 to 13.0 ms
15 files	2.6 to 3.3 ms	15.9 to 17.0 ms
16 files	2.7 to 3.7 ms	8.7 to 8.9 ms
12 directories	2.0 to 2.1 ms	13.0 to 14.0 ms
16 directories	3.0 to 4.9 ms	9.5 to 10.2 ms

• From 96 operands (8 for each of the 12 pool threads) the two builds use the same number of threads for the lookups. The size of a part (OPERANDS_PER_PART) trades this against more pool tasks on a local disk: ls d1 d2 d3 is 7 to 11 us slower with its one added task and three stat calls.

Sizes. ShellLsTask is 264 bytes (main: 240). The state of a running ls is 264 bytes (main: 104), inside the Box<Ls> that each ls allocates on main too. Release .text is +12,032 bytes (110,642,729 to 110,654,761, size -A). The count of core::slice::sort symbols is 1,232 on both builds.

Tests

• test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts: a new block operand order with 51 tests. They assert exact bytes: the sort of files, of a glob, files before directories, -d, -r, -U, -rU, -f, -t, -S, an operand named twice, -R with several operands, operands that start with a dot, symlinks, 71 operands (several parts), the order of errors, -l, and -R depth first. Three command lines run through eight kinds of output: a captured buffer, the stdout of the process, .text(), $(...), a pipeline, a file, bun exec (the mini event loop), and bun exec with both streams on one pipe.
• The fixtures are made in a shuffled order, so a listing in creation order, in reverse creation order or in hash order is not sorted. The -R tests read each listing from the output and check that the sections follow depth first, so they hold on every file system. They also check the listing of each directory against the fixture.
• A directory that does not open (mode 000) is tested in a child that is not root, as an operand and under -R, on two streams, on one stream, and on two descriptors of one pipe. These five tests run one at a time, because the helper for that child changes the mode of TMPDIR and puts it back.
• A reader that stalls: a listing of 282 KB goes through a pipeline whose reader takes one byte and then waits until the walk is done. The bytes must be those of the captured listing.
• Two destinations: stdout is a file and stderr is a pipe that is full. The listing must be in the file while the errors still wait. This test fails on d586121, which made every two writers wait for each other.
• On a debug build of this branch the file gives 81 pass, 2 skip (as root) and 0 fail. A debug build of main fails 49, 50 and 50 of the 51 new tests in three runs, and a release build of main 50, 50 and 48. The one that always passes on main is the header of ls nope d1, which has one order. Others pass when the pool happens to complete in the expected order.
• test/js/bun/shell/shell-cmdsub-crash.test.ts: a case with 50 directory operands and two missing ones inside $(...) (fails on main). The existing case has 50 file operands, which are one chunk now. New cases for mkdir and touch keep the OutputTask path of fix(shell): prevent use-after-free in builtin OutputTask callbacks inside $() #26987 covered.
• test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts: a case through mkdir -v, which still uses OutputTask.
• test/js/bun/shell/epipe.test.ts: a row for ls with 64 directory operands.
• All 44 files of test/js/bun/shell/ on the debug build: 43 pass. shell-load.test.ts fails with Too many open files in this container, on main too, and does not run ls.
• cargo clippy -p bun_runtime and cargo fmt --check are clean. bun run rust:check-all for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-apple-darwin: 2 ok.
• CI on 76c5b75: the shell tests pass on every lane, macOS and Windows included. The red jobs fail only in test/aot/* and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts, which also fail on main.
• Not run by hand: Windows, macOS. No timing is from those systems. On Windows the builtin is the only ls. By reading: NTFS lists names in upper-cased order, so ls and ls * can print one directory in two orders there until the entries are sorted too.

Self-review

44 concerns raised, 35 addressed, 2 in part, 7 not.

• In part (2): the cost of the added stat for directory operands is measured on Linux only. The order of operands with \ has a test that CI runs on Windows, and no check by hand there.
• Not done (5): split the PR, with the cursor first and the sort later. With the cursor alone each operand keeps its place on the command line, so ls da a prints a below da: in every run. No ls prints that. Sorted or typed is one default (Opts::sort), not a second PR.
• Not done (1): sort the entries of one directory here. It is the follow-up named above.
• Not done (1): the typed order as the default. A maintainer decides (first section).

Review on the PR

• Changed here: two streams wait for each other only on one file (see above), the -R tests check the listing of each directory, a test with a reader that stalls, and the docs name the flags that do not sort.
• One task for up to 15 operands stays (Downsides). A task for each operand keeps a slow file system as fast as on main, but ls d1 d2 d3 would then run 7 pool tasks (main: 3, here: 4). The size of a part is one constant.
• One write for the file operands stays (Downsides). A cut into pages inside ls would add poll rounds to every large listing, also on sinks that cannot block. The bound belongs in the writer, which knows if the descriptor blocks (shell: write one pipe slot per POLLOUT to a blocking stdout or stderr (Linux) #46307).
• The rule for two destinations is POSIX only for now. On Windows the exact answer needs the handles, and the rule has no test there.
• -c, -u, -X and -v stay as on main: accepted, with no effect. The follow-up that sorts the entries of a directory has to add each sort key for operands and entries at once.
• Same on main, and not changed here: ls -d opens a directory that it only has to name (so it fails on a directory with no read permission, and -ld prints a bare name), ls -R goes into hidden directories that the listing hides, and a failed write to stdout does not change the exit code (shell: exit 1 and report a failed output write in every builtin #40033 has that for every builtin). Each is a separate change.

Related PRs

• shell: sort the matches of each glob by byte on the pool thread #47825 (open) sorts the matches of a glob with the same comparator. After it, the operands of ls part-* arrive sorted, and the sort here is one pass of compares.
• shell: glob each brace variant in one pool task, and keep a variant with no match #33423 (open) changes how brace variants glob. It has the same release question.
• shell: sort ls builtin output by name (POSIX) #33993 (closed by the stale sweep) sorted the entries of one directory. It did not change the order of operands.
• shell: write one pipe slot per POLLOUT to a blocking stdout or stderr (Linux) #46307 (open) bounds the write to a blocking pipe.
• shell: exit 1 and report a failed output write in every builtin #40033 (open) reports a failed output write in every builtin.
• node:fs: return readdir entries in strcmp order like node #45394 (open) orders fs.readdir entries.
• Open PRs that touch ls.rs or its helpers: shell builtins: remove unsafe from rm/cp/yes/ls/mkdir and EnvStr #40262 and shell: remove unsafe from the interpreter, state nodes, IOWriter/IOReader and Builtin #40228 (remove unsafe from the shell builtins), shell: keep OutputTask boxed through the vtable and output queues #37688 (OutputTask boxes), shell: stop running builtins and their pool work when a script is stopped #46168 (stop builtins when a script is stopped, it adds a return to the read loop), Resolve readdir entries of unknown type in the remaining consumers (create, bin links, bunx, fs.watch, cp, ls, init) #38961 (entries of unknown type), shell: accept -- end-of-options delimiter in builtins #33995 (--), shell: treat a lone - as an operand in the builtin option parsers #39214 and shell: name the rejected flag in the builtins' illegal option errors #39230 (option errors), Deduplicate jsc bindings, runtime api, test matchers, and shell builtins #32023.

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❌ @robobun, your commit 76c5b75 has 40 failures in Build #137396 (All Failures):

• test/aot/mock-module-of-compiled-modules.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 aarch64
• test/aot/mock-module-of-compiled-modules.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64
• test/aot/mock-module-of-compiled-modules.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64-asan
• test/aot/the-main-module-of-a-test-run.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 aarch64
• test/aot/the-main-module-of-a-test-run.test.ts - code 1 on 🐧 13 x64
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Reproduced with a script that runs each command line 60 times in the Bun Shell and 60 times in bash. It says whether the output is the same in every run and whether it is sorted.

On main (3bf1a06), and on the released 1.4.2:

1 ls, twelve files typed in order            | the Bun Shell: varies unsorted | bash: steady sorted
2 ls part-*                                  | the Bun Shell: varies unsorted | bash: steady sorted
3 ls, three folders typed in order           | the Bun Shell: varies unsorted | bash: steady sorted

On this branch:

1 ls, twelve files typed in order            | the Bun Shell: steady sorted | bash: steady sorted
2 ls part-*                                  | the Bun Shell: steady sorted | bash: steady sorted
3 ls, three folders typed in order           | the Bun Shell: steady sorted | bash: steady sorted

The new tests in test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts assert the exact bytes. 48 to 50 of the 51 fail on a debug build of main, and all pass on this branch.

PR: #47880

CI on 76c5b75 (build 137396): the shell tests pass on every lane. The red jobs fail only in test/aot/* and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts. These tests also fail on main (builds 137327 and 137162).

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The ls builtin now classifies and sorts operands, orders recursive listing sections, and batches output across shell writers. Documentation and tests cover sorting flags, errors, output destinations, backpressure, and task termination.

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ls operand ordering and output

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Operand classification and sorting src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs, docs/runtime/shell.mdx, test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts	The builtin classifies operands and sorts entries by name, time, or size. Non-directories precede directory listings, while -d combines operands into one group. -U and -f preserve command-line order; -f also includes hidden entries. Documentation and tests cover these rules, symlinks, and operand errors.
Ordered sections and writer coordination src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs, test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts, test/js/bun/shell/epipe.test.ts	Listing sections and recursive child slots are drained in order. Output is batched, and writer callbacks resume draining. Tests cover output destinations, recursive ordering, backpressure, and error ordering.
Shell command and task completion coverage test/js/bun/shell/shell-cmdsub-crash.test.ts, test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts	Tests cover missing operands in command substitution and worker termination while builtin output is queued.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 76c5b

The ordering changes have recursive-output and stalled-reader coverage. The remaining write-error and unreadable-directory limitations predate this change; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title names the two main changes: operands printed in coreutils order and -R sections written depth first. The changeset implements both: the ls.rs ordering and cursor logic, the Sort enum, and …
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The title names the two main changes: operands printed in coreutils order and -R sections written depth first. The changeset implements both: the ls.rs ordering and cursor logic, the Sort enum, and the depth-first section writing in recursive listings. The title is specific and matches the primary change, so the check passes.

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Report unreadable directories under -d by name.

795-804: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Report unreadable directories under -d by name.

The -d arm opens each directory with O::RDONLY | O::DIRECTORY before it prints the name. A directory that stat accepts but that the process cannot read fails the open. The arm then reports an error and omits the name. The directory name is printed only when the open succeeds. The same behavior exists in the base revision, so this PR does not introduce it.

Possible approach

Print the name from the stat result and drop the open for -d. Before you do this, confirm that the open does not guard any Windows or race-condition case. This change touches the same arm on every platform, so verify it on Windows and macOS.

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Review comment at @src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs around lines 795 - 804:
Update the `-d` arm around `shell_openat` so a directory accepted by `stat` is
reported by name even when opening it for reading fails. Preserve any
platform-specific or race-condition safeguards the open provides, and establish
how to retain them before removing or changing that open; ensure unreadable
directories are not omitted.

Record stdout write failures in the ls exit status.

260-266: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Record stdout write failures in the ls exit status.

The output callback drops the write error it receives. A failed stdout write, for example ls > /dev/full, can leave ls with exit status 0 after its output is truncated. The exit status comes only from exec.err, and only the stderr path in drain sets that field.

Record the write failure on the Exec state inside on_io_writer_chunk, and keep counting completions through output_done. Do not return Builtin::done early, and do not cancel queued chunks from this callback. ls can still have pending tasks, sections, and batched output, and the completion check waits for them. The existing Tag::Exec branch then returns a nonzero status once all work finishes.

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Review comment at @src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs around lines 260 - 266:
Update on_io_writer_chunk to record a received stdout write error in the Exec
state’s existing error field, while continuing to increment output_done. Do not
return early or cancel queued chunks; preserve the existing completion checks so
the Tag::Exec branch reports a nonzero status after all pending work finishes.

Assert the file entries in the -R test.

758-766: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the file entries in the -R test.

depthFirst builds expected from output, so a listing that omits file entries also omits them from expected. The directories check verifies only the directory headers. The toBe check then passes when f, g, or h lines are missing. Add a count of those lines. The fixture creates one f, plus 12 g and 12 h entries.

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       const { directories, expected } = depthFirst(output);
+      const entries = output.split("\n").filter(line => line === "f" || line === "g" || line === "h");
+      expect(entries).toHaveLength(1 + 2 * shuffled.length);
       expect({ directories, stderr }).toEqual({ directories: recursiveDirectories(), stderr: "" });

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts around lines 758 - 766:
Update the recursive `-R` test near `depthFirst` to independently count output
lines equal to `f`, `g`, or `h` and assert the count is one plus twice
`shuffled.length`. Keep the existing directory and expected-output assertions so
missing file entries cannot be hidden by deriving `expected` from `output`.

Add a stalled-reader ls test that resumes draining to completion.

33-33: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add a stalled-reader ls test that resumes draining to completion.

The new ls case in test/js/bun/shell/epipe.test.ts:33 writes about 600 bytes to a reader (true) that exits without reading. The write does not wait, so the case does not test a blocked ls writer or its resume path. The only stalled-reader ls case, in test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts, runs only under ASAN, terminates the worker, and does not assert output.

Add a test that:

• Produces ls output larger than a pipe's capacity, for example by listing a few thousand files with long names.
• Reads the first chunk, then pauses the reader until the writer has blocked. Gate the resume on that condition, not on a fixed sleep.
• Drains the remaining output to end-of-stream.
• Asserts the exact stdout first, then exitCode equal to 0.

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/shell/epipe.test.ts at line 33:
Add a stalled-reader `ls` test alongside the existing `ls` case: generate output
larger than pipe capacity, read the first chunk, and pause draining until the
writer is observably blocked rather than waiting a fixed duration. Resume
reading and drain to end-of-stream, then assert the exact stdout before
asserting that `exitCode` is 0.

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• docs/runtime/shell.mdx
• src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs
• test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts
• test/js/bun/shell/epipe.test.ts
• test/js/bun/shell/shell-cmdsub-crash.test.ts
• test/js/bun/shell/shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts

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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 section cursor for lost or double-counted slots (Stat tasks with more than one part take no slot and emit no section; task_count starts at 1 for the Order/alone task, so tasks_done matches) and the drain/flush re-entrancy when an IOWriter chunk completes synchronously (draining only counts it and the loop re-reads output_done before the next flush) — both hold up. The raw task_count pointer held by pool tasks across worker termination is the same pattern the base branch already had, not something this PR introduces.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewrites the Bun shell ls builtin's output path in src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs to write per-task sections in depth-first slot order with batched chunks and cross-stream serialization, adds -r/-t/-S/-U/-f operand sorting, and updates docs and tests; it touches no auth, crypto, or injection surface. Six confirmed findings are posted inline, so this note only records the ordering/bookkeeping and re-entrancy paths that were examined and ruled out.

[claude]

🟡 (optional) Scripts whose ls lists many file operands onto an inherited blocking pipe now stall the JS thread while the reader is slow; on main each operand was its own small write. Every file-operand entry lands in one Section.output, and emit at ls.rs:450 makes a section larger than CHUNK a single chunk, so ls -l * over a few hundred files is one 64 KB+ write() that blocks until the reader drains it. Fix: cut Section.output (and a stderr batch) into chunks of at most CHUNK bytes at line boundaries before enqueueing, so no write exceeds a pipe page; this also covers the pre-existing one-directory case. The description calls this a downside (460 ms vs 6 ms); with a reader that never resumes the whole thread blocks, not only the command.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: ls with two or more file operands whose entries total more than the free pipe space, with stdout a pipe handed to Bun without O_NONBLOCK, and a reader that pauses. classify writes every non-directory operand's entry into one buffer (ls.rs:784-786, 838-847), order makes it the section's output (ls.rs:880-897), and make_room/emit (ls.rs:417-455) put a section over CHUNK into the batch whole, so flush (ls.rs:478) enqueues it as one IOWriter chunk. The pollable writer writes the current chunk with a plain write() on the fd (IOWriter.rs:1052-1075); a blocking fd blocks that syscall until the reader has consumed everything beyond the free pipe space, so the event loop stops for that long. On the base branch each file operand was a separate task and a separate OutputTask chunk, so a write() only ran when poll said a page was free and never blocked. The CHUNK comment at ls.rs:84 says a writable pipe takes one page without waiting; that guard is bypassed for a section bigger than a page.

Verification: Trigger: two or more file operands whose entries exceed the free space of a blocking stdout pipe, with a reader that is slow. emit stores the whole section as the batch (ls.rs:449-451); flush enqueues it as one IOWriter chunk (ls.rs:478); write_to_blocking_pipe does sys::write(fd, buf) of the whole chunk (PipeWriter.rs:252-257). On base each file operand was its own enqueue (base ls.rs:197-213).

[robobun]

Not changed in this PR. The wait is in the writer: it polls a blocking pipe and then writes one whole chunk. So ls of one directory with more than 64 KB of names waits the same way on main (472 to 477 ms in the same test). A cut into pages inside ls would add a poll round for each page to every large listing, also on sinks that cannot block. #46307 bounds that write in the writer, which knows if the descriptor blocks. The PR body has the numbers under Downsides.

[robobun]

Review follow-up (c922f99 and dc3bb11).

Changed:

• Two streams wait for each other only when both writers are on one file (a terminal, or one pipe). ls checks that with fstat, once, when the streams first meet. A pipeline stage and a terminal, or a file and a pipe, no longer wait for each other.
• The -R tests check every entry against the fixture, also in the two tests with a directory that does not open.
• New test a listing larger than a pipe reaches a reader that stalls: 282 KB go through a pipeline whose reader takes one byte and then waits until the walk is complete. The test asserts the bytes and the exit code.
• New test a stream does not wait for the other one when they go to two places.
• The docs say that -c, -u, -X and -v do not change the order.
• Each new comment in ls.rs is one line.

Not changed, because main does the same and each is a separate change:

• ls -d opens a directory that it only has to name. So it fails on a directory with no read permission, and ls -ld dir prints a bare name.
• ls -R goes into hidden directories that the listing hides.
• A failed write to stdout does not change the exit code (ls > /dev/full exits 0). shell: exit 1 and report a failed output write in every builtin #40033 records a failed write once for every builtin.

[coderabbitai]

Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 1

test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts: 1

779-780: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Compare each directory's listing in the recursive ls test.

The entries check flattens all listings. Moving a g or h entry from one sNN section to a sibling section still passes. directories also stays the same. expected is rebuilt from the altered output, so it matches the misplaced entry too. Compare each directory's listing with the fixture.

Return a sorted copy of each listing. Do not sort the stored arrays in place. section reads those arrays to build expected. An in-place sort would make expected sorted while the actual output keeps its order.

Suggested fix

       return {
         directories: [...listings.keys()].sort(),
         entries: [...listings.values()].flat().sort(),
+        listings: Object.fromEntries([...listings].map(([dir, names]) => [dir, [...names].sort()])),
         expected: section("top", ""),
       };

+    const recursiveListings = () => ({
+      top: ["f", ...shuffled.map(i => `s${two(i)}`)].sort(),
+      ...Object.fromEntries(
+        shuffled.flatMap(i => [
+          [`top/s${two(i)}`, ["g", `t${two(i)}`].sort()],
+          [`top/s${two(i)}/t${two(i)}`, ["h"]],
+        ]),
+      ),
+    });

-      const { directories, entries, expected } = depthFirst(output);
-      expect({ directories, entries, stderr }).toEqual({
+      const { directories, entries, listings, expected } = depthFirst(output);
+      expect({ directories, entries, listings, stderr }).toEqual({
         directories: recursiveDirectories(),
         entries: recursiveEntries(),
+        listings: recursiveListings(),
         stderr: "",
       });

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Review comment at @test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts around lines 779 - 780:
Update the recursive `ls` test’s `depthFirst` result to include a sorted copy of
each directory’s listing, without sorting the stored arrays in place. Compare
those per-directory listings against fixture data in the recursive assertion so
entries moved between sibling sections are detected; preserve the existing
arrays used by `section` to build `expected`.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs:
- Around line 167-168: Update the parts calculation so 2–15 operands are split
into per-operand tasks, capped by bun_core::get_thread_count(), allowing their
stats to run concurrently. Preserve the existing batching behavior for larger
operand counts.
- Around line 470-472: Update Ls::on_io_writer_chunk to record any write error
passed as Some(err), then ensure ls finishes with exit code 1 when a write
failure occurred, even if no stat error occurred. Preserve the existing
exit-status behavior for stat errors and successful writes.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts:
- Around line 779-780: Update the recursive `ls` test’s `depthFirst` result to
include a sorted copy of each directory’s listing, without sorting the stored
arrays in place. Compare those per-directory listings against fixture data in
the recursive assertion so entries moved between sibling sections are detected;
preserve the existing arrays used by `section` to build `expected`.

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[robobun]

Second review follow-up (4740ac9).

• The -R tests now compare the listing of each directory with the fixture, so an entry under the wrong header fails.
• One task for up to 15 operands stays. The review thread has the numbers for both choices, and the PR body lists the cost under Downsides.
• The exit code after a failed write is the same as on main. shell: exit 1 and report a failed output write in every builtin #40033 handles it for every builtin.

[coderabbitai]

Actionable comments posted: 1

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/runtime/shell/builtin/ls.rs:
- Around line 54-55: Bound the memory retained by completed out-of-order
Sections in the parked results buffer. Add byte accounting and enforce a limit,
or apply backpressure by stopping new subtask scheduling while the limit is
reached; ensure the earlier slot can still complete and parked results are
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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.

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• Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Review comments at @test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts:
- Line 886: Add a finite deadline to the wait that checks listing() against
sortedParts.length while proc is running, so it exits when the deadline expires
and reaches the toEqual assertion with the partial early listing. Preserve the
existing completion conditions and avoid introducing an unbounded wait.

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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.

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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.

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[robobun]

#47899 makes mkdir and touch act on their operands in the order typed. Two points of it touch this PR:

• It adds an ordered writer for stdout and stderr to Builtin.rs (OutputRuns and Builtin::write_output_runs). Its rules are those of the cursor in ls.rs here: the two streams wait for each other only when fstat says that they are one file, and a chunk is at most one page. If shell(mkdir, touch): handle the operands in typed order on one pool task #47899 lands first, ls can call that writer.
• mkdir and touch no longer use OutputTask there. The mkdir and touch cases that this PR adds to shell-cmdsub-crash.test.ts, and the mkdir -v case in shell-worker-terminate-leak.test.ts, then go through the new writer.