[robobun]

Problem

• When a callback calls useFakeTimers() again, the call that advances the old clock must stop (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833). Only run_until compares installs (src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs:1098). run_next (:1082), run_ticks (:1058) and two more loops do not.
• jest.useFakeTimers(); setTimeout(() => { jest.useFakeTimers(); setTimeout(fn, 5000); }, 10); jest.runAllTimers(); calls fn and moves the new clock to 5000. Jest 30.5.2 and Vitest 5.1.0 leave fn pending. No user reported it.

Fix

• A run calls its callbacks through run_ticks and fire. Each returns a new error, Stop::ClockGone, when the callback changed installs. The loops end.
• firing starts at 0 with each clock, so a zero-delay timer on the new clock is due at once.
• advanceTimersToNextTimer(steps) goes on with the new clock, as in Jest.
• Verified: test/js/bun/test/fake-timers/fake-timers.test.ts (224 new cases, 123 fail on main), plus vi-utils.test.ts, test-timers.test.ts and fake-timers/sinonjs/. Self-reviewed: 19 concerns raised, 18 addressed. No tracking issue (see Notes).

Background

• useFakeTimers() and useRealTimers() bump installs and drop what is pending. bun:test: give each VM its own fake clock #38740 wrote the same stop for runAllTimers().
• firing counts running timer callbacks. Above 0, a zero-delay timer is due 1 ms later.
• Considered a compare in each loop (a later loop can forget it) and a type that owns the heap (+286/-191 lines, same output).

Downsides

• Against 1.4.4: runAllTimers() stops at the replacement. advanceTimersToNextTimer() also runs a zero-delay timer of the new clock.
• +256 bytes of release .text. At most 10 more instructions per fired timer, 3 per faked tick.
• advanceTimersToNextTimerAsync() stops where Jest goes on.

Notes

How it was found, and who can hit it

• Runs of the same programs on Jest 30.5.2, Vitest 5.1.0 (--pool=threads, Node 26.3.0) and bun found it. There is no issue and no user report.
• The trigger is a callback, run by a fake-timer function, that calls useFakeTimers() again and then sets a timer or a faked tick on the new clock.
• With the default options only runAllTimers() and advanceTimersToNextTimer() change. Every other changed cell needs faked ticks or immediates (toFake), an Async function, a tick mode, vi.waitFor(), vi.waitUntil() or expect.poll(). Those arrived with bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, which is in no release (latest is v1.4.4).
• No test or document of Jest, Vitest or @sinonjs/fake-timers covers this case. The reference results below are measured. They follow from sinon, which keeps one clock object for each install.

The rule

• bun:test: give each VM its own fake clock #38740 (open) states it: "Each installation carries a generation, so advanceTimersByTime / runOnlyPendingTimers / runAllTimers stop draining if a callback they fired installed a new clock."
• bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833 landed the counter as installs, the compare in run_until, and two tests: "an interval whose callback restarts the fake clock is dropped" and "they leave the timers of the next fake clock alone".
• So main gives two answers to one input. advanceTimersByTime(), runOnlyPendingTimers() and runAllTimersAsync() leave the new clock alone. runAllTimers() runs it.
• The loops without the compare on main: run_next (:1082, under runAllTimers(), runAllTimersAsync(), advanceTimersToNextTimer() and next timer mode), run_ticks (:1058, under every function), run_all_immediates (:1177) and the Drive::Next arm (:1338).
• Question for a maintainer: was it intended that run_next and run_all have no compare after bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833?

What happens to a timer that the callback sets on the new clock

Default options. Measured on the release binaries 1.4.3 and 1.4.4, and on release builds of main 7ca0042 without and with this diff.

Call, and what the callback sets after useFakeTimers()	1.4.3, 1.4.4	main	this PR	Jest, Vitest
runAllTimers(), a 5000 ms timer	runs, clock at 5000	runs, clock at 5000	pending, clock at 0	pending, clock at 0
advanceTimersByTime(10000), a 5000 ms timer	runs	pending	pending	pending
advanceTimersToNextTimer(), a 0 ms timer	pending	pending	runs at 0	runs at 0
advanceTimersByTime(10) then (0), a 0 ms timer	runs at 1	pending, due at 1	runs at 0	runs at 0

With faked ticks (toFake has nextTick and queueMicrotask). The log shows what ran, then getTimerCount().

Program	Call	main	this PR	Jest 30.5.2
a tick replaces the clock and sets a 0 ms timer	runAllTimers(), runAllTimersAsync()	tick,NEW timer, 0	tick, 1	tick,old timer, 1
same	advanceTimersToNextTimerAsync()	old timer,tick,NEW timer, 0	old timer,tick, 1	old timer,tick, 1
a tick replaces the clock and queues a tick	advanceTimersByTime(20), runOnlyPendingTimers(), runAllTimers() and their Async forms	tick,NEW tick, 0	tick, 1	tick,old tick 2,old timer, 1
same	runAllTicks()	tick,NEW tick, 0	tick, 1	tick,old tick 2, 1
next timer mode, a tick replaces the clock and sets a 1000 ms timer	none	fires it, clock at 1000	pending, clock at 0	pending, clock at 0
an immediate replaces the clock and sets an immediate	runAllImmediates()	runs it	pending	no such function

• In 67 probe cells (11 functions, 4 kinds of callback, the tick modes, nested calls), 27 change.
• After the change no call runs an entry of a clock that a callback installed. The two exceptions are advanceTimersToNextTimer() and a call that the callback itself makes on the new clock.
• Of 44 cells with all 11 functions, 5 print the same line as Jest (main: 4). The rest differ by the old clock's timers, which Jest still runs and bun drops (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833).

advanceTimersToNextTimer(steps)

• Jest runs clock.next() and clock.tick(0) for each step, and reads its clock field for each of the two. After a replacement the rest of the call works on the new clock.
• The sync function keeps that: run_next and run_until are each a run of its own, and Stop::ClockGone with nothing thrown ends only that one.
• 96 cells (16 call orders, 1 to 3 steps, sync and Async), on release builds. Sync: the new clock ends as in Jest in 48 of 48 cells (main: 31). 33 of 48 lines are identical as printed (main: 17). The other 15 differ only by the old clock's timers.
• Async: useFakeTimers() settles the promise (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833), so the call stops. Jest goes on with the new clock. The new clock ends as in Jest in 19 of 48 cells (main: 21). Vitest's vi takes no steps.
• The alternative is one hunk smaller: let ? end the sync call too. The sync and Async forms would then agree, and the sync form would leave Jest in the cells where it equals Jest on main.
• Question for a maintainer: keep this exception, or end the sync call like the others?

Deleted, and asserted

• Deleted: the two installs compares of run_until, the "drive is gone" result of next_of_tick, and the drive lookup in run_step before it posts the next step.
• Reason: a drive leaves drives during a step only in deactivate() or forget_realm(). Both bump installs, so run_ticks or fire has returned Stop::ClockGone before that code.
• Two lookups of the drive stay, in next_of_tick and in the Drive::Next arm, because no borrow can span a callback. Each goes through of_running_step(), which asserts that the drive is there. It is a debug_assert!, so release builds do not contain it.
• An uncaughtException handler is user code too. It runs from fire before the compare, or as the last thing a step does, so no pop follows it.

Not changed

• advanceTimersToNextTimerAsync() stops where Jest goes on (above).
• In Jest and Vitest the function still runs the timers that were pending on the old clock. bun drops them (bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833).
• refresh() of a timer that already fired on the old clock arms it on the new clock, and runAllTimers() fires it again. In Jest the count stays 0. Main does the same.
• A setTimeout with _repeat, or a Bun.cron() job, whose callback replaces the clock arms itself on the new clock. bun:test fake timers: drop the timer whose callback is running, and the cron job whose tick is pending, on a clear #48149 covers both.
• No tracking issue exists for the first and third item. This list is the record.

Other open PRs on these lines

• bun:test: run faked ticks in advanceTimersToNextTimerAsync() when no timer is pending #48093 adds a drive lookup after run_ticks in the Drive::Next arm for the faked-tick case. It merges cleanly with this branch. After both land, that lookup cannot fail, and the PR that lands second removes it.
• bun:test fake timers: drop the timer whose callback is running, and the cron job whose tick is pending, on a clear #48149 conflicts in two hunks of FakeTimers.rs: the field after installs, and the Firing::begin() line in fire, where it reads installs a second time. The PR that lands second keeps one read.
• bun test: hold the event loop across a test callback's drain and inside fake timer controls #47726 and bun test: keep a clock that a preload's beforeAll() or aroundAll() sets for every test file #48070 each conflict in one line of FakeTimers.rs. bun test: follow-ups to Vitest compatibility #47727 and bun:test: make clearAllTimers() a no-op when fake timers are not active #47664 change other lines of the file.
• bun:test: give each VM its own fake clock #38740: bun test: Vitest compatibility #44833, this PR and bun:test fake timers: drop the timer whose callback is running, and the cron job whose tick is pending, on a clear #48149 cover its clock-swap parts.

Measurements

Release builds with LTO on linux-x64: main 7ca0042, without and with the first commit of this PR. The later commits change comments, tests and the debug assertion.

• Size: .text goes from 110,627,497 to 110,627,753 bytes (+256). The symbols of fake timers and vi_wait go from 46,888 to 47,172 bytes (+284).

Symbol	main	this PR
fire	279	329
run_ticks	681	726
run_next	282	313
run_until (with pop_due and advance_clock_to, now inlined)	426	385
Bun__FakeTimers__runStep	3,608	3,762
Bun__Bindgen__FakeTimers__advanceTimersToNextTimer	531	556
ViWait::poll	884	891

• Real timers: All::insert, All::set_timeout, TimerObjectInternals::fire_catching, reschedule and CronJob::schedule_next have the same size. LTO changed five other symbols by 1 to 16 bytes, for example __bun_fire_timer (-13), and inlined two small thread-local helpers.
• Instructions in user mode (perf_event_open, JIT and concurrent GC off). Slope between 100,000 and 300,000 items, 5 interleaved pairs, spread at most 1.1.

Workload, per item	main	this PR	Delta
set a timer and fire it with runAllTimers()	5,109.7	5,083.7	-26.0
set a timer and fire it with advanceTimersByTime()	5,052.8	5,015.7	-37.1
queue a faked tick and run it with runAllTicks()	1,275.0	1,278.0	+3.0
set a timer, then clearAllTimers()	4,004.6	4,004.5	-0.1

• The totals go down because LTO inlines the thread-local accessor behind timer_all() and pop_due in this build. That is not a property of the source.
• Counted in the disassembly, on the path where no callback replaces the clock: fire runs 64 instructions (main: 59), run_next 62 (main: 57). run_ticks runs 3 more for each tick and no more with an empty queue, because it reads installs after it pops a tick.
• Types: Stop stays 16 bytes. The results of fire, run_until, run_next and run_ticks stay 16, 16, 24 and 16 bytes. Firing goes from 0 to 4 bytes of a register or stack slot. FakeTimers has no new field.
• Event loop turns until the promise of an Async function settles: 40 of 40 rows are equal (5 calls, 0 to 10 timers, with and without faked ticks).

Tests

• 224 new cases. On main 123 fail, all in the new block.
• The other 101 pass on main. They pin what is right on main and now goes through the new arms: the functions that already stopped, the errors that a callback throws, and the cells where advanceTimersToNextTimer() equals Jest.
• "a timer without a delay is due at once on the new clock" also fails on a build without the installs compare in Firing::drop. Three cases of advanceTimersToNextTimer() fail on a build where a replacement in its tick(0) half ends the call.
• Debug (ASAN) build of this branch: fake-timers.test.ts 721 pass. vi-utils.test.ts, test-timers.test.ts and fake-timers/sinonjs/: 235 pass, 438 todo.
• The two release builds give the same result (717 pass, 438 todo) on those suites plus expect-deferred.test.ts, vitest-apis.test.ts, vitest-flavor.test.ts and the three cron suites.

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no test proof · iteration 2 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/test/fake-timers/fake-timers.test.ts

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Walkthrough

Fake timer controls now detect when a callback replaces the active clock. Most controls stop without advancing the replacement clock, while advanceTimersToNextTimer() continues its remaining steps. The changes also handle callback exceptions and add tests and documentation for synchronous and asynchronous controls.

Changes

Fake timer clock replacement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track fake clock installations src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs	Installation generations track clock replacement, and installation changes reset firing state.
Handle replacement in synchronous timer runs src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs	Timer firing and synchronous run loops report clock replacement and preserve callback exceptions. advanceTimersToNextTimer() continues after replacement when no exception was thrown.
Handle replacement in asynchronous timer runs src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs, src/runtime/test_runner/vi_wait.rs	Async timer drives handle replacement and forward carried exceptions. ViWait::poll handles clock-loss results alongside other timer-advance results.
Document and test replacement behavior docs/test/dates-times.mdx, test/js/bun/test/fake-timers/fake-timers.test.ts	Tests cover replacement across timer controls, callback types, exceptions, polling, and automatic tick modes. Documentation describes the replacement-clock behavior and differences from Jest and Vitest.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 1e31f

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 1e31f

The change stops obsolete fake-clock runs while preserving the synchronous next-timer behavior. No actionable merge-blocking issue is established; normal build and test checks should complete before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Title check		The title names the main behavior change: a run ends when a callback calls useFakeTimers() again. The changeset adds the Stop::ClockGone handling in FakeTimers.rs and vi_wait.rs, the docs, and tests f…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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The title names the main behavior change: a run ends when a callback calls useFakeTimers() again. The changeset adds the Stop::ClockGone handling in FakeTimers.rs and vi_wait.rs, the docs, and tests for this case. The title also mentions bun:test fake timers, which matches the affected area. It omits the secondary changes (zero-delay timers on the new clock, advanceTimersToNextTimer(steps) continuing on the new clock), which is acceptable for a short title.

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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 finding, I also checked three paths and ruled them out: Firing::drop cannot take firing below zero, since after bump_installs resets it every older guard sees a changed installs and skips the decrement (only a u32 wrap could defeat that); advanceTimersToNextTimer(steps) after a callback calls useRealTimers() continues the loop but deactivate has emptied the heap and ticks and publish_clock is a no-op with faked cleared, so it ends at once as the new test asserts; and a faked tick that both re-installs and throws returns Stop::Ticks, which every caller already rethrows and whose stop_advancing compare is a no-op on the new clock.
I did not run the new tests or confirm that removing each new compare breaks one of them.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches the fake-timer run loops in src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs (new Stop::ClockGone, Firing guard tied to installs, run_to_next_timer continuing on the new clock), the vi_wait.rs consumer, docs, and ~340 lines of new matrix tests; it touches no security-sensitive surface. A human look is warranted because the PR changes observable semantics versus 1.4.4 and poses two open design questions to maintainers, and because one confirmed inline finding about a dead guard contradicting its doc comment remains.

[claude]

I reviewed the updated PR and found no bugs; the follow-up commit resolves the dead-guard inconsistency raised earlier (both remaining lookups now go through running_drive, a debug-only assertion, so no release-reachable panic). A maintainer look is still worthwhile because the description leaves two behavior decisions open (keeping the advanceTimersToNextTimer(steps) exception, and advanceTimersToNextTimerAsync() stopping where Jest goes on) and the change rewires control flow in a re-entrancy-sensitive path.

What was reviewed:

• Every match on Stop after adding ClockGone (FakeTimers.rs, vi_wait.rs): all arms handle it, and Stop::keeping preserves the "rethrow the first exception, but a tick's error wins" ordering of run_until.
• The Firing guard: bump_installs resets firing and a guard from a replaced clock skips its decrement, so no underflow and a nested run on the new clock balances to 0; the unconditional postStep on Step::Again is only reachable when fire/run_ticks saw installs unchanged, and a stale post is a no-op in step_drive.
• Pending-promise settlement when a drive's clock goes away: install/uninstall take and settle the drives before the step observes ClockGone, and a later exception is reported as uncaught (covered by the new subprocess test).
• Not run: the new tests under USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 and bun bd test, so the "fails on main for the right reason" claim rests on reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches bun:test fake timers (src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs, vi_wait.rs), a docs paragraph, and about 340 lines of new tests; it adds a Stop::ClockGone variant, changes the return types of fire/run_all_immediates/next_of_tick, and reworks the Firing guard and the async step path. It touches no security-sensitive surface (no auth, injection, or data exposure). The code reads as behavior-preserving outside the intended "stop when a callback replaces the clock" change, and the earlier inline finding was addressed by the second commit, but the author explicitly poses two design questions for a maintainer and the raw-pointer, re-entrant control flow warrants a human look rather than an approval; no CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths.

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Status: the fix and the tests are in this PR (#48217), and it is ready for review. CI is red only on tests that this PR does not touch (see CI below).

How I reproduced it. Run this file with bun test on main, or on 1.4.4:

import { test, jest } from "bun:test";

test("a timer callback calls useFakeTimers() again", () => {
  jest.useFakeTimers();
  const ran = [];
  setTimeout(() => {
    ran.push("old timer");
    jest.useFakeTimers();
    setTimeout(() => ran.push("new timer"), 5000);
  }, 10);
  jest.runAllTimers();
  console.log(ran.join(","), "| pending", jest.getTimerCount(), "| now", performance.now());
});

• main and 1.4.4 print old timer,new timer | pending 0 | now 5000.
• Jest 30.5.2, Vitest 5.1.0 and this branch print old timer | pending 1 | now 0.

The variant from the original report needs toFake: ["setTimeout", "nextTick", "queueMicrotask"] and a process.nextTick() callback that calls useFakeTimers(). It reproduces only on main, because faked ticks are in no release.

CI. Build 138713 ran commit 1e31f18: 180 jobs passed, 5 failed, and 4 had not started.

• test/js/bun/test/fake-timers/fake-timers.test.ts is the one test file that this PR changes. It has 0 failures on the 10 lanes that ran it. The seven Linux lanes report 721 pass (Debian 13 x64, aarch64 and x64 ASAN, Ubuntu 25.04 x64 and aarch64, Alpine 3.23 x64 and aarch64). Windows 2019 x64, Windows 11 aarch64 and macOS aarch64 report 720 pass and 1 skip. The skipped test is Linux-only and is not from this PR.
• Five test files are red: the four test/js/bun/test/parallel/test-docker-build-*.ts files and test/cli/install/hosted-git-info/boundary-conditions.test.ts. Each one hit its timeout. The Docker tests download the latest released bun from github.com, so they do not run the code of this PR. The other test installs the dependency https://github.com/#. I checked 11 other PR builds from the same hours (138701 to 138716). At least one Docker test is red on 9 of them.
• The four macOS x64 test jobs have not run. No agent has taken them since 11:36 UTC, and they expired three times (state at 16:21 UTC). The macOS x64 test jobs of the four other PR builds that I checked (138765, 138778, 138786, 138794) also wait for an agent.
• The GitHub Actions checks pass: Format, Lint JavaScript, Source lints, cargo clippy, cargo miri test, lol-html cargo test and mordant.

I did not push again, because a new run repeats the same downloads.

[claude]

I reviewed the latest push (2144723) and found no bugs; because this changes the fake-timer run semantics in ways the description itself leaves to a maintainer (keeping the advanceTimersToNextTimer(steps) exception, and whether run_next/run_all were meant to lack the compare after #44833), a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Firing guard balance across nested old-clock and new-clock runs: bump_installs zeroes firing and Drop skips the decrement once installs differs, so stale guards cannot underflow or leak into the new clock's min_delay_ms.
• Every match on Stop (run_step, run_auto_step, run_to_next_timer, on_tick_timer/throw_what_it_threw, vi_wait.rs) handles ClockGone; the old run_until installs-break and the vi.waitFor path keep their behavior via Stop::keeping.
• The now-unconditional postStep on Step::Again and the of_running_step lookups: the only paths that remove a drive mid-step (deactivate, forget_realm) bump installs first, so run_ticks/fire return ClockGone before them, and the dropped drives are settled in use_fake_timers_with_default/use_real_timers.
• Not run: the new test matrix and the "delete each load-bearing clause" check — this review was by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

The diff touches src/runtime/test_runner/timers/FakeTimers.rs (new Stop::ClockGone variant, Firing guard tied to installs, fire/run_ticks/run_until/run_to_next_timer/drive stepping), vi_wait.rs, a docs paragraph, and ~340 lines of describe.each tests in fake-timers.test.ts; no security-sensitive surface is involved. The bug hunt ran dry and my own reading found the guard accounting, the Stop matches, and the drive-removal invariant consistent, and the latest commit plausibly addressed the earlier inline threads from this bot and coderabbitai. Defer rather than approve because the change is a nontrivial semantics decision in unsafe-adjacent Rust that the PR author explicitly flags as needing a maintainer's call, and because nothing was executed to confirm the test matrix.