[robobun]

Problem

• Bun.build({ outdir: "link/../out" }), with link a symlink, returns success: true. Each BuildArtifact.path names a file that does not exist: artifact.text() rejects with ENOENT.
• The writer opens the outdir text through the OS (src/bundler/linker_context/writeOutputFilesToDisk.rs:39), which follows a symlink before it applies ... The artifact path (src/runtime/api/js_bundle_completion_task.rs:884) and the source map join it as text.

Fix

• fold_output_dir (src/bundler/options.rs) folds a .. after a named segment as text, like path.resolve. On POSIX, Bun.build and bun build --outdir call it where they parse the option.
• BuildArtifact.path does not change for any input, and an outdir with nothing to fold is stored as before.
• Verified: test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts and 4 more files (14 new tests, 12 fail on main). Also ran metafile and bundler_naming.
• Self-reviewed: 27 concerns raised, 25 addressed (Notes name the other 2).

Background

• esbuild and tsc write link/../out to out. On Windows bun_sys folds .. as text before each NT call.
• FileSystemRouter: fix a panic and wrong route names for an absolute dir with '..' in it #44342 made the same fold for Bun.FileSystemRouter dir.
• Considered a realpath (it changes path for each symlinked outdir) and a fold in the writer (the stored option stays raw).

Downsides

• Files of an outdir with .. after a symlink move beside the symlink, and tools that open that string read the old folder. --outdir link/.. is now --outdir . and can replace an entry point.
• --outfile, --metafile and --metafile-md are not folded: --outdir link/../x --metafile=link/../x/meta.json now writes two folders.
• Each build scans the text once: 107 instructions for dist, 0 allocations, 0 syscalls. .text grows 512 bytes.

Notes

Origin. Found by reading the code. #48173 notes the fault for chunks ("also in 1.3.14"). There is no GitHub issue and no user report. The open in the writer is from df59fe2 (2023-04-27) and the join for the artifact path is from 9a09f9f (2023-05-05). An outdir made with path.join, path.resolve, import.meta.dir or process.cwd() has no .. after a symlink, and this PR changes nothing for it.

Repro (Linux x64, bun 1.4.3 and main 2596ac5):

mkdir -p /tmp/symchk/src /tmp/symchk/real/inner && cd /tmp/symchk && ln -s real/inner link
echo 'export const a = 1; console.log(a);' > src/index.ts
cat > b.ts <<'EOS'
const d = process.cwd();
const r = await Bun.build({ entrypoints: ["./src/index.ts"], outdir: `${d}/link/../out` });
for (const o of r.outputs) console.log(o.kind, o.path.replace(d, "<d>"), await o.text().then(t => t.length + " bytes", e => e.code));
EOS
bun b.ts; find . -name index.js
# main:    entry-point <d>/out/index.js ENOENT      ./real/out/index.js
# this PR: entry-point <d>/out/index.js 59 bytes    ./out/index.js

What one build does on main for such an outdir.

• Chunks, assets, source maps and bytecode go to real/out (the OS). The two metafiles go to out (text). Each artifact names out.
• The source map sources are computed for out. From real/out they name files that do not exist. sourcesContent is complete, so the file name is the only wrong part. bun build --outdir link/../out --sourcemap writes the same sources.
• dts: true and --dts: index.d.ts goes to out, index.js and a stray index.js.map go to real/out, and index.aot.ts is not written. The exit code is 0.
• bun compile --library --outdir deep/link/.., with deep/link a symlink to a folder of the project: the check of --outdir compares text (deep), the writer asks the OS (the project folder), and the build replaces the project's package.json. bun 1.4.3 has no bun compile.

What changes for Bun.build. Release builds of main and of this PR, with sourcemap: "external", splitting and metafile: { json, markdown } (7 artifacts):

outdir	main	this PR
out, out/, ./out, a/b/../out (a/b is a folder), ../x, deep/er/out	one folder, each artifact reads	same files, same paths
link, link/sub (link is a symlink)	written through the symlink, path keeps link	same
link/../out, <abs>/link/../out, link/./../out, link//../out	files in real/out, 5 of 7 artifacts give ENOENT	files in out, 7 of 7 read
link/..	files in real/, 5 of 7 give ENOENT	files in the working directory
missing/../out	files in out, an empty missing/ is left	files in out
file.txt/../out	the build fails: Failed to create output directory "file.txt/../out" is a file. Please choose a different outdir or delete "file.txt/../out"	files in out

Over the 15 spellings, 25 artifacts give ENOENT on main and 0 on this PR. BuildArtifact.path is the same string on both builds in each row.

What changes for bun build --outdir. A plain bun build --outdir link/../x has one resolver on main, the OS, and no wrong path. It moves too: bun build and Bun.build then put one outdir text in one place, and --sourcemap or --dts does not change where a build lands.

• --outdir link/../x: real/x on main, x on this PR. ls link/../x does not find the new files. An older build in real/x stays there.
• --outdir link/../x --metafile=link/../x/meta.json: both in real/x on main. On this PR the chunks are in x and the metafile is in real/x.
• --outdir link/.. is --outdir .. With link a symlink to sub/inner, bun build ./app.js --outdir link/.. wrote sub/app.js on main. It now replaces ./app.js, as --outdir . does on main. bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612 adds the refusal for that.
• --outdir "$PWD/../x" from a working directory that is a symlink: real/x on main, x beside the symlink on this PR. --outdir ../x is real/x on both.
• --no-bundle --outdir link/../z: real/z on main, z on this PR.
• A message that quotes the outdir quotes the folded text. --outdir missing/../blocked, with blocked a file, gives Failed to create output directory "blocked" is a file. Please choose a different outdir or delete "blocked".

Not changed, on purpose.

• --outfile, --metafile, --metafile-md and compile.outfile. The OS resolves each of them and no text join reads them (--outfile link/../y/o.js is real/y/o.js on both builds). Bun.build: write an absolute metafile path where it points, not under outdir #48173 decides where a metafile path lands. A relative metafile path of Bun.build is joined to outdir as text on main and on this PR.
• A naming template with .. below a symlinked outdir (outdir: "link", naming: "../esc/[name].[ext]"). The writer opens the name through the handle of outdir, and the artifact path joins it as text: ENOENT on both builds. That fix is in the writer, for each file.
• A \ in a POSIX outdir (outdir: "dist\\client"). The writer makes a folder named dist\client and the artifact names dist/client/: ENOENT on both builds. fold_output_dir takes \ as a byte of a name, as the OS does. The 15 spellings have no \.
• A NUL byte in outdir. main does not reject it: outdir: "invalid\0/../out" writes invalid/index.js on main (the OS reads the path up to the NUL) and reports out/index.js, which gives ENOENT. On this PR it writes out/index.js. outdir: "inv\0alid" is the same on both builds. Bun.build: reject a null byte in path options and in output names the build opens #46752 adds the refusal. It checks the text of the option before the text is stored, so it sees the NUL with or without the fold.
• root and --root: opened as given.
• A plugin reads the outdir that the caller wrote (build.config.outdir). A plugin that writes there with node:fs writes to real/out.
• A leading .. (../out) stays, and the OS applies it from the working directory. On POSIX the working directory is a real path, so the OS and the text agree.
• Windows. The fold is for POSIX only. On Windows bun_sys folds .. as text before each NT call (normalize_path_windows_opts, and the first pass of mkdir_recursive_at_mode), so the writer and the reported paths agree there on main. It also keeps a \\.\ device path as it is. The text join of bun_paths drops that prefix (\\.\C:\a\..\b becomes \C:\b), so on Windows the option is stored as it is given. I read the Windows code and ran the join on Linux. I did not run Windows.
• bun compile --library --outdir deep/link, with deep/link a symlink to the project and no .., still replaces the project's package.json. The check compares names. compile --library: check --outdir once, by name and by real path #48236 rewrites it.

For the reviewer. Two decisions are for a maintainer.

1. One rule for each output path option. Does each of them fold .. as text (outdir after this PR, esbuild, tsc), or does the OS resolve it (--outfile, --metafile, and an absolute metafile path in Bun.build: write an absolute metafile path where it points, not under outdir #48173)? fold_output_dir is pub, so the other options can call it if the answer is text.
2. The order against bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612. After this PR --outdir link/.. is --outdir ., so a build can replace an entry point in the working directory, where main wrote beside the target of the symlink. bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612 refuses to write an output over an input. Is the fold acceptable before that refusal lands, or must bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612 land first? One review thread on options.rs is open for this.

Order against open PRs.

• bun build: error when both --outdir and --outfile are set #48214 rewrites the --outdir arm in Arguments.rs. The PR that lands second keeps options::fold_output_dir(outdir). The cli.test.ts rows here fail if the call is lost.
• bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612 has tests that expect --outdir link/.. where the OS resolves it. They change.
• bun build: never derive an output directory from the entry point #41879 assigns dirname(--outfile) to options.output_dir. That text needs fold_output_dir, or --outfile link/../y/o.js --sourcemap gets the fault of this PR.
• Bun.build: write an absolute metafile path where it points, not under outdir #48173 and Bun.build: hold the metafile in its artifact when there is no outdir #45169 (metafile paths), bundler: write source map sources relative to the file that carries the map #47548 (source map sources), bake: resolve one output directory for bun build --app from --outdir #47446, Remove get_fd_path: derive paths from cwd and what was opened, not from fds #38365, Bun.build, bun build: use the working directory when the default root does not exist #45176, Bun.build: reject a null byte in path options and in output names the build opens #46752 and compile --library: check --outdir once, by name and by real path #48236 touch the same lines or the same rule. None of them has this fold.
• On Remove get_fd_path: derive paths from cwd and what was opened, not from fds #38365, a maintainer said that a realpath is not the replacement for get_fd_path. This PR calls neither.

Measurements (Linux x64, release builds of main 2596ac5 and of this PR at aaa0eb1). strace, perf and valgrind are not on the machine, so the counts are from gdb.

• Instructions from entry to return of fold_output_dir (stepi, the same count in 3 runs): dist 107, ./dist 176, ../x 171, a 46-byte absolute path 483 to 779 (it depends on the alignment of the text). When it folds: a/../dist 663, link/../out 713. There is one call for each Bun.build with an outdir and one for --outdir.
• Syscalls in that range: 0. Allocator calls: 0 when nothing folds, 1 (mi_malloc, the folded text) when it folds.
• File syscalls of the whole process (catch syscall for the open, mkdir, stat, readlink, rename and unlink families), 8 spellings with nothing to fold, Bun.build and bun build: 0 lines that name the output root differ. One openat of the working directory in Bun.build is there or not from run to run on both builds (1 run of 6 each).
• Size: .text is 108,257,833 bytes on main and 108,258,345 on this PR (+512). fold_output_dir is 462 bytes. The stripped binary is 138,123,536 bytes on both.

Self-review. Of 27 concerns, many make one point from different sides. Addressed: the two comments and the docs sentence say only what the fold does, the dts rows and the plain bun build row are tests, and this text lists the changes of the CLI, the open cases and the order against the open PRs. Not done:

• A setter on BundleOptions.output_dir that folds on each assignment. The option is in two other places before it reaches that field (Config.outdir, ctx.bundler_options.outdir), and their readers join it as text. A setter covers one of the three and adds a second scan. The fold is where the text comes in, and the bun build: never derive an output directory from the entry point #41879 line above names the one new assignment that is known.
• A hold until one rule covers each output option. Under the text rule outdir needs this fold, and FileSystemRouter: fix a panic and wrong route names for an absolute dir with '..' in it #44342 is the precedent. The question is above.

Tests that pin the open cases (naming with .., \) are not here: the result that such a test expects is not decided.

Review on the PR.

• The text join drops a \\.\ device prefix on Windows: the fold is now for POSIX only (aaa0eb1).
• The comments on fold_output_dir and output_dir are one line each (1c20bea).
• --outdir link/.. can replace an entry point. That is not changed here: it is what --outdir . does on main, and a refusal for every outdir is the subject of bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612. If the refusal must be in first, bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612 can land before this PR.
• --metafile, --metafile-md and --outfile are not folded. See "Not changed, on purpose" and the question for the reviewer.

Tests.

• test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts: 8 rows. 6 fail on main: .. after a symlink as absolute and as relative text, with . and doubled separators, after a folder that does not exist, after a file, and link/... 2 pass on main: they pin that a symlinked outdir with no .. keeps its spelling in path.
• test/bundler/cli.test.ts: 3 rows, all fail on main on POSIX (a plain build, a build with a source map, the message for an outdir that is a file).
• test/bundler/bun-build-api-dts.test.ts and test/bundler/bun-build-dts.test.ts: 1 row each, both fail on main.
• test/cli/compile/compile-library.test.ts: 1 row, fails on main (the build replaces the project's package.json).
• fold_output_dir has a unit test (bun run rust:test -p bun_bundler).
• On Windows the rows with a symlink make a junction. This PR changes nothing on Windows, so each row tests what main does there. From the code of bun_sys I expect that they pass. I did not run Windows.
• bun bd test on the five files: the new rows pass. On the debug build of this machine some older tests of these files time out. Each of them compiles an executable from the 1.6 GB debug binary, runs 400 builds, or runs the type checker many times at once. They pass on the release build of this PR, as on main.
• cargo check --workspace passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc, aarch64-apple-darwin and aarch64-unknown-linux-musl (first commit). After the last change to fold_output_dir, cargo check -p bun_bundler passes for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.

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no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/cli/compile/compile-library.test.ts, test/bundler/cli.test.ts, test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The bundler now folds eligible .. segments in output directory paths before storing them in JavaScript API and CLI build options. Tests cover path normalization, output placement, sourcemaps, declaration files, and library builds.

Changes

Output directory path folding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define output directory folding src/bundler/options.rs, docs/bundler/index.mdx	fold_output_dir folds eligible paths on non-Windows platforms and preserves inputs when no fold is needed or resolution fails. Unit tests and documentation describe the path behavior.
Apply folding to build options src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs, src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs, test/bundler/*, test/cli/compile/compile-library.test.ts	The JavaScript API and CLI apply fold_output_dir to configured output directories. Tests cover output placement, sourcemaps, declaration files, and library builds.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii

Merge Risk: Low · up to 80bd8

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 80bd8

The change addresses symlink-related output placement, but an outdir containing a NUL byte can now write to a normalized destination instead of being rejected. This narrow edge case warrants a validation fix or explicit owner acceptance.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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[robobun]

^{Updated 10:05 PM PT - Nov 8th, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 80bd8a8 has some failures in Build #139047 (All Failures)

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🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 48281

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-48281 executable, so you can run:

bun-48281 --bun

[robobun]

Status: ready for review. The diff is green on every CI lane that ran. The build is red only because the macOS x64 test jobs did not get an agent.

How I reproduced it. With link a symlink to real/inner, Bun.build({ outdir: "link/../out" }) returns success: true, writes the files to real/out, and reports a BuildArtifact.path under out for each of them. artifact.text() rejects with ENOENT. bun 1.4.3 and a release build of main (2596ac5) both do this. The script is in the Notes of the description.

With this change the files are in out and each artifact reads. 12 of the 14 new tests fail on main. The other 2 pin that a symlinked outdir with no .. keeps its spelling.

CI (build 139047, the second run of the same code):

• 184 jobs passed: each Linux lane (x64, aarch64, musl, ASAN, hardened), Windows 2019 x64, Windows 11 aarch64 and macOS aarch64. The five test files of this PR passed on each of them.
• The four darwin x64 - test-bun jobs expired while they waited for an agent. The same happened in the first run (build 138980). That is the only reason for the red status.
• No test of this PR failed on any lane. Three tests passed on a retry, and this PR does not touch them: spawn_waiter_thread.test.ts, aot/runner-suites/mock-module-runs-3.test.ts and process-stdin.test.ts.
• The first run had one red test on the ASAN lane, test/aot/parallel/modules/a-data-file-required-before-the-loader-comes-to-its-import/main.mjs. It passed in the second run.

For a maintainer. The description has two questions under "For the reviewer": one rule for .. in each output path option, and the order against #41612. One review thread is open for the second question.

[claude]

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

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🟡 src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs — Users who pass --metafile (or --metafile-md) under the same .. prefix as --outdir now get the metafile in a different folder than the chunks. --outdir is folded at src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2999, but --metafile and --metafile-md are stored raw at Arguments.rs:3010 and :3019 and opened through the OS at build_command.rs:725, so --outdir link/../x --metafile=link/../x/meta.json writes chunks to x and the metafile to real/x; on the base both land in real/x. Fix: resolve every CLI output path option the same way, by passing --metafile, --metafile-md (and --outfile) through fold_output_dir as well, so one spelling means one folder. The PR lists this as a downside; the filed --outfile/sourcemap item needs a different fix. [also at: src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2999 - Users who spell the same .. prefix in --outdir and --metafile now get the build and its metafile in two different folders, where the base put both in one.]

  Why this was flagged

  A user runs bun build src/entry.ts --outdir link/../x --metafile=link/../x/meta.json where link is a symlink to real/inner. src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2999 stores the outdir as x after fold_output_dir, and the writer at src/bundler/linker_context/writeOutputFilesToDisk.rs:39 creates and writes into x. src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:3010 stores --metafile as the raw bytes link/../x/meta.json, and src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs:725 opens that string with bun_sys::File::make_open, which the OS resolves through the symlink to real/x/meta.json. On the base branch both the chunks and the metafile were opened through the OS and landed together in real/x. The same holds for --metafile-md at Arguments.rs:3019 and build_command.rs:765. No guard relates the two options: nothing compares or rewrites the metafile path against the folded outdir. The PR description acknowledges the split as a downside but it is a new divergence that the base does not have.

  Verification: Trigger: --outdir and --metafile/--metafile-md with a .. that follows a symlinked segment. src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2999 folds link/../x to x, so chunks land in x. Arguments.rs:3010 and :3019 store the raw string, and src/runtime/cli/build_command.rs:725/:765 hands it to the OS, writing real/x/meta.json. On the base commit --outdir was raw too, so both landed in real/x together.

[claude]

🔴 Users whose outdir folds onto the folder holding their source now get that source file overwritten by the bundle, where the base wrote through the symlink elsewhere. fold_output_dir turns link/.. into . (and dist/../src into src) before the writer opens it, so bun build ./app.js --outdir link/.. writes app.js over ./app.js. This follows from the stated purpose; the PR lists it as a downside. Fix: before writing, refuse (error) any output whose path resolves to an input or entry-point file of the same build, for every outdir spelling, so a folded .. can never clobber a source; the refusal the author defers to another PR should land with this fold. [also at: src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2999 - Users with --outdir link/.. (or Bun.build({ outdir: "link/.." })), link a symlink into a subfolder, now get their source files in the working directory overwritten by the bundle.]

Why this was flagged

A project has app.js and a symlink link -> sub/inner in the working directory, and runs bun build ./app.js --outdir link/.. (or Bun.build({ entrypoints: ['./app.js'], outdir: 'link/..' })). On the base branch the OS resolves link/.. to sub, so the bundle lands in sub/app.js and the source is untouched. After this change src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs:2999 and src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs:1073 store fold_output_dir(b"link/.."), which src/bundler/options.rs:2150-2174 folds to . (the unit test at src/bundler/options.rs:2208 pins this). src/bundler/linker_context/writeOutputFilesToDisk.rs:39 opens . and writes app.js into it, replacing the user's entry source with its own bundled output; exit code is 0 and nothing warns. No safeguard exists: the writer never checks whether an output path coincides with an input file (the PR text defers that to #41612), so the fold converts a previously harmless spelling into silent source loss.

Verification: Trigger: outdir contains a .. directly after a symlink segment and folds onto a folder that holds a same-named input. src/bundler/linker_context/writeOutputFilesToDisk.rs:39 opens the folded text through the OS, so . is the working directory, whereas on the base the OS resolved link/.. to sub/; no guard refuses writing an output onto an entry point, so the bundle app.js lands on ./app.js.

[robobun]

This is real, and the description lists it under Downsides. I measured it on release builds. With link a symlink to sub/inner, bun build ./app.js --outdir link/.. writes sub/app.js on main and replaces ./app.js on this PR.

I did not add a refusal in this PR, for these reasons:

• The result is the one that --outdir . has on main: bun build ./app.js --outdir . replaces ./app.js with exit code 0. The fold makes link/.. that same directory. On main the mirror layout has this result (a symlink whose target has the working directory as its parent), and this PR removes that one.
• A refusal must cover every outdir, not only a folded one. It changes what --outdir . does for each build with a .js entry point, and it needs a decision about an opt-out (esbuild has --allow-overwrite). bundler: refuse to write an output file over one of the build's inputs #41612 is open for that, with the cases for entry points, imported files, --outfile and metafile paths.
• A check for a folded outdir only needs a flag from the parse site to the writer. I do not think that is the right shape.

If the refusal must be in before the fold, #41612 can land first. The tests here do not depend on the order. The --outdir link/.. rows of #41612 expect the place that the OS resolves, and they change with this PR.

[robobun]

On the finding about --metafile, --metafile-md and --outfile (the review comment outside the diff):

The split is real. It is the second bullet under Downsides: --outdir link/../x --metafile=link/../x/meta.json wrote one folder on main and writes x and real/x on this PR. I left the three flags as they are, on purpose:

• Each of them has one resolver on main, the OS, so nothing disagrees for them. A fold moves their files for builds that have no fault.
• Bun.build: write an absolute metafile path where it points, not under outdir #48173 decides where a metafile path lands, and it takes the OS rule for an absolute metafile path.
• The Notes ask a maintainer for one rule for each output path option: text, or the OS. fold_output_dir is pub. If the answer is text, each of the three flags is one line.

The two inline findings have replies in their threads. aaa0eb1 makes the fold POSIX only, because the text join drops a \\.\ device prefix on Windows.

[coderabbitai]

Actionable comments posted: 3

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @src/bundler/options.rs:
- Around line 2165-2170: Validate the original outdir for NUL bytes before
calling join_z_buf_checked in the outdir-folding flow, and reject invalid values
before normalization; preserve the existing folding behavior for valid paths.
- Around line 2165-2170: Update artifact path construction around
join_z_buf_checked::<Posix> so POSIX backslashes in outdir remain literal while
resolving path segments such as ..; ensure the resulting artifact path matches
the path used when writing the output.
- Around line 2203-2205: Add a Windows-specific assertion to the
output-directory folding test that verifies the foldable input a/../b is
preserved unchanged and returned as borrowed. Keep the existing non-Windows
assertion intact so the test distinguishes the platform-specific behavior of
fold_output_dir.

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Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 2596ac5 and 1c20bea.

Files selected for processing: 9

• docs/bundler/index.mdx
• src/bundler/options.rs
• src/runtime/api/JSBundler.rs
• src/runtime/cli/Arguments.rs
• test/bundler/bun-build-api-dts.test.ts
• test/bundler/bun-build-api.test.ts
• test/bundler/bun-build-dts.test.ts
• test/bundler/cli.test.ts
• test/cli/compile/compile-library.test.ts

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[claude]

Beyond the inline findings, this pass also checked the other places an outdir can come from and ruled them out: bunfig [bundle].outdir is overwritten by build_command.rs:340 before the writer sees it, the --outfile dirname fallback at build_command.rs:685 is deliberately left unfolded (as the description states), and compile --library shares the folded --outdir parse; also read join_z_buf_checked::<Posix> through normalize_string_node_t and it matches the unit-test expectations (link/.. -> ., a/../../b -> ../b, trailing / kept).
Not run here: the new tests, bun run rust:check-all, or anything on Windows — the cfg!(windows) early return (a runtime bool, so the body is still type-checked there) and the Windows rows of the new tests were checked by reading only.

Extended reasoning...

This push adds fold_output_dir in src/bundler/options.rs and routes the CLI --outdir and Bun.build outdir parse sites through it, with a unit test, docs paragraph and subprocess tests across the API, CLI, dts and compile --library variants; the newest commits switch the normalizer to Posix and add a cfg!(windows) early return. No security-sensitive surface is touched beyond output-path handling. Not approving because the change intentionally moves where builds land for symlinked outdir spellings (including link/.. -> .), a user-facing design call the author explicitly asks a human to weigh, and the Windows branch could only be checked by reading.

Still open from earlier reviews (1):

• 🔴 src/bundler/options.rs:2174 — Users whose outdir folds onto the folder holding their source now get that source file overwritten by the bundle, where…

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[robobun]

On the one finding that is still open (--outdir link/.. is --outdir . after the fold, so a build can replace an entry point there):

I leave that thread open on purpose. The finding is correct, and the change that it asks for is a decision for a maintainer, not a fix that this PR can make alone. The description now states it as the second question under "For the reviewer": is the fold acceptable before #41612 (the refusal to write an output over an input) lands, or must #41612 land first? My reasons for no refusal in this PR are in the thread.