pack: pack a file listed under several bin names once, strip the trailing slash from directories.bin

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Problem

• bun pm pack adds a file to the tarball once per bin name that points at it: "bin": {"a": "cli.js", "b": "cli.js"} prints packed 2B cli.js twice, reports Total files: 3, and the tarball has two package/cli.js entries.
• "directories": {"bin": "./tools/"} (trailing slash) packs every file of the directory twice, once as package/tools//t.js (without the executable bit) and once as package/tools/t.js.
• The same function mishandles a few sibling spellings: "bin": "" and "bin": {"x": "dir/"} abort the pack with EISDIR: failed to read file (exit 1, truncated .tgz left behind), "bin": "package.json" produces two package/package.json entries, and "directories": {"bin": ""} packs the whole tree a second time under ./ (second package.json included).
• bun publish has the same class of problem in the manifest it sends to the registry: "directories": {"bin": ""} lists every file in the package (the tarball itself included) as a bin, "bin": "." sends {"<name>": ""}, and once pack stops failing on "bin": "" it would send {"<name>": "."}.
• npm packs each of these without an error and with every file once, and its manifest drops bin values that resolve to nothing.
• Cause: get_package_bins (src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs) normalizes its three inputs (bin string, bin object values, directories.bin) with three slightly different sets of checks, and pack() queues whatever it returns. resolve_path::normalize_buf keeps a trailing slash and turns "" into ., so a bin directory was stored as tools/ (the bin directory walk joins names onto it, giving tools//t.js, and the project walks compare it against the slash-less entry subpath tools, so they never skip it) and "" was stored as ., the package root. Nothing deduplicated the object values against each other. publish_command.rs's normalize_bin repeats the pattern with three arms of its own: the directory arm only rejected the empty string, the string arm rejected nothing, and the object arm had its own checks.

Fix

• pack: one bin_subpath(value, BinType, buf) resolves every value: normalize; for directories.bin drop the trailing slash; for bin values reject a trailing slash (it does not name a file) and package.json (always archived on its own); reject anything left that is empty or . (the package root) or escapes the package. The three arms of get_package_bins call it, the object arm skips values whose subpath is already collected, and is_package_bin drops its own trailing-slash strip because the stored path no longer has one.
• publish: the directory arm of normalize_bin expands directories.bin through the same bin_subpath, so the manifest and the tarball agree on what the bin directory is. The string and object arms share one bin_target, which ends in the same is_package_root_or_outside predicate as bin_subpath. Values such as "lib/" or "package.json" stay in the manifest as written: that is what npm's manifest normalization does with them (@npmcli/package-json keeps any target that does not resolve to empty), and npm does not treat them as bins on the tarball side either, so both halves now match npm.
• Neither side can name a path outside the package: normalize_buf resolves ../cli.js to cli.js and drops a leading / (npm's secureAndUnixifyPath does the same, so the entry is kept under the resolved name rather than dropped), and the shared predicate rejects the absolute spellings that survive normalization. Tests pin ../cli.js resolving to cli.js in both the tarball and the manifest.
• Why this is right: every consumer of a stored bin path (the skip checks in the three tree walks, the bin directory walk's entry names, is_package_bin, publish's directory listing) expects a canonical subpath, so the canonical form is established once where the paths are produced. The resulting behavior matches npm for every case above, except that directories.bin of "." / "./" is ignored (npm turns every file of the package into a bin); bun already ignored those two spellings before this change, and "" now joins them, which is what npm does for "". Files of a bin directory keep getting the executable bit, which bun already did for the slash-free spelling and npm does not do.
• Verified with describe("bins") in test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts (several names for one file; test.each over five bin values that name nothing; an object mixing ignored and real entries; test.each over four "files" values for a trailing-slash directories.bin, each routing the skip through a different walk; test.each over the three package-root spellings) and describe("bin in the published manifest") in test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts (test.each over string, object and directories.bin forms, asserting the manifest bin that reaches a mock registry). On the released bun, 10 of the pack rows and 4 of the publish rows fail (output below); with this branch bun-pack.test.ts (93) and bun-publish.test.ts (47) pass.
• The report's two repros now give Total files: 2 with one executable package/cli.js, and Total files: 3 with one executable package/tools/t.js.
• Overlap: pack: always include "main" and "browser" entry points in the tarball #36266 adds the package.json exclusion to the same two lines and normalizes main / browser the same way, so it can call bin_subpath after this lands; pack: skip bins reached through symlinks; publish: do not read the readme through a symlink #38707 strips the trailing slash again before its lstat, which becomes redundant but harmless. Either way the conflict is confined to these few lines.

Background

• Packing runs in two stages. get_package_bins reads bin (a string, or an object of name to path) or, if absent, directories.bin; pack() queues every bin file directly and walks a bin directory on its own, so bins ship even when "files" or an ignore file would drop them. The rest of the package is then walked (iterate_project_tree, or iterate_included_project_tree plus add_entire_tree when "files" is set), and each walk skips entries that are bins because the first stage already queued them. A skip is a byte comparison of the stored bin path against the entry subpath, and subpaths are built as dir_subpath + "/" + name, so a stored path must not end in a slash.
• is_package_bin runs when an entry is written and ORs 0o111 into the mode of a bin file or a direct child of the bin directory (what pacote does for npm's bin).
• normalize_buf::<Posix> cleans a path without touching the filesystem: it collapses . segments, drops leading .. and /, keeps a trailing slash, and returns . for an empty input and an empty slice for . or ./. So "package root" arrives as either "" or . depending on the spelling.
• bun publish sends the registry a manifest built by normalized_package. Its normalize_bin rewrites bin into the object form npm clients expect (string form becomes {"<package name>": path}) and expands directories.bin into such an object by listing the directory. It is a separate code path from the tarball, which is why the two have to share the rule.

New tests on the released bun (1.4.0-canary.1)

(fail) bins > the same file under several bin names is packed once
(fail) bins > "bin" of "" is ignored                      (EISDIR, exit 1)
(pass) bins > "bin" of "." is ignored
(pass) bins > "bin" of "cli.js/" is ignored
(fail) bins > "bin" of "lib/" is ignored                  (EISDIR, exit 1)
(fail) bins > "bin" of "package.json" is ignored          (package.json twice)
(fail) bins > ignored entries of a bin object do not affect the others
(fail) bins > "directories.bin" with a trailing slash > files: undefined
  +   "package/lib/bins//bin.js",
      "package/lib/bins/bin.js",
(fail) bins > "directories.bin" with a trailing slash > files: [ "index.js" ]
  -   "package/lib/bins/bin.js",
  +   "package/lib/bins//bin.js",
(fail) bins > "directories.bin" with a trailing slash > files: [ "lib" ]
(fail) bins > "directories.bin" with a trailing slash > files: [ "lib/bins" ]
(fail) bins > "directories.bin" of "" (the package root) is ignored
(pass) bins > "directories.bin" of "." (the package root) is ignored
(pass) bins > "directories.bin" of "./" (the package root) is ignored

(pass) bin in the published manifest > {"bin":"cli.js"}
(pass) bin in the published manifest > {"bin":"../cli.js"}
(fail) bin in the published manifest > {"bin":""}                 (pack exits 1)
(fail) bin in the published manifest > {"bin":"."}                manifest bin: {"bin-pkg": ""}
(fail) bin in the published manifest > {"bin":{"x":"lib/",...}}   (pack exits 1 on "lib/")
(pass) bin in the published manifest > {"directories":{"bin":"bins/"}}
(fail) bin in the published manifest > {"directories":{"bin":""}}
  - undefined
  + {
  +   "a.js": "./bins/a.js",
  +   "bin-pkg-1.0.0.tgz": "./bin-pkg-1.0.0.tgz",
  +   "bins": "./bins",
  +   "bunfig.toml": "./bunfig.toml",
  +   ...
  + }
(pass) bin in the published manifest > {"directories":{"bin":"."}}

The passing rows pin spellings that already behaved this way and now share the explicit rule.

npm 11.16 on the same inputs

$ # "bin": {"a": "cli.js", "b": "cli.js"}
-rwxr-xr-x package/cli.js
-rw-r--r-- package/package.json
$ # "directories": {"bin": "./tools/"}      (bun additionally marks tools/t.js executable)
-rw-r--r-- package/index.js
-rw-r--r-- package/tools/t.js
-rw-r--r-- package/package.json
$ # "directories": {"bin": ""}              (no bin directory; manifest has no "bin")
-rw-r--r-- package/index.js
-rw-r--r-- package/tools/t.js
-rw-r--r-- package/package.json
$ # "directories": {"bin": "."}, "files": ["index.js"]
#   npm makes every file a bin and therefore ships lib/ and tools/ too;
#   bun (before and after this change) ignores the field and ships index.js only
$ # "bin": "", "bin": {"x": "dir/"}, "bin": "package.json"
#   exit 0, every file once. Manifest normalization drops "" (resolves to
#   nothing) and keeps "dir/" and "package.json" as written.

Earlier versions of this PR

The first revision fixed only the two reported cases inline (a dedupe in the object arm and a trailing-slash strip plus root check in the directories.bin arm). Review pointed out that the sibling spellings listed above went through the same function with different checks, that the description overstated npm parity for "." / "./", and that publish kept its own copy of the directory rule; the second revision folded the rule into bin_subpath and shared it with publish's directory arm. A further review round noted that publish's string arm then started sending {"<name>": "."} for "bin": "" once pack no longer failed on it; the current revision gives publish's string and object arms a shared bin_target and covers both forms in the publish test.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Binary path handling now uses shared normalization and validation for packing and publishing. Invalid or package-root targets are omitted. Object-form entries are deduplicated, and tests cover packaging and published manifest behavior.

Binary path normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pack-time bin validation src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs	Adds bin_subpath validation for file and directory entries, deduplicates object-form targets, and matches normalized directory paths.
Publish-time bin normalization src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs	Adds bin_target, filters package-root targets, checks referenced files, and reuses pack::bin_subpath for directory entries.
Bin path regression coverage test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts	Tests deduplication, invalid paths, trailing slashes, file filters, and normalized published manifests.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38738: Both PRs modify bin-target path normalization and trailing-separator handling.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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✅ @robobun, your commit 10b42b00b0c8996dce64d13a8b8b47cea3848425 passed in Build #97409! 🎉

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Status: fixed at 10b42b0, ready for a maintainer.

Reproduced on the released bun (1.4.0-canary.1) with the two package.json shapes from the report. The new rows in describe("bins") of test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts (10 fail on the released bun: duplicate entries, the lib/bins//bin.js entry name, the missing executable bit, and the EISDIR / duplicate package.json spellings found in review) and in describe("bin in the published manifest") of test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts (4 fail on the released bun) pass with this branch; both files pass in full (93 and 47). Details, the npm comparison, and the relationship to #36266 / #38707 are in the PR description.

CI on 10b42b0: 177 of 179 jobs passed with no test failures at the time of writing, the last two macOS shards were still queued. (The earlier builds were red only on test-http-chunk-problem.js, which main has since fixed; the branch is rebased past it.)

Review: every thread is answered and resolved. Two rounds changed the shape (one shared bin_subpath for pack, bin_target for publish's manifest, both ending in the same root/outside check). The suggestion to also drop "lib/"-style and ../-style targets from the manifest was not taken: npm keeps the former as written and resolves the latter into the package, and tests pin both.

[claude]

LGTM — small, well-scoped fix that normalizes bin paths at storage time instead of at each read.

What was reviewed:

• get_package_bins: the already_listed dedup uses the same strings::eql_long as the walk skip checks and is_package_bin, so ./cli.js and cli.js collapse correctly after normalization.
• All consumers of BinInfo{ty: Dir}.path (the four walk skip checks, is_package_bin, and the DirInfo prefix passed to the bin-directory walk) expect a slash-free path — stripping at storage fixes them all at once, and removing the now-redundant without_trailing_slash from is_package_bin is safe because the only BinType::Dir producer is the one just changed.
• without_trailing_slash never strips below length 1, so "/" still falls through to bin_path_escapes_root; the empty and . cases from normalize_buf are both caught by is_package_root.
• Tests cover all four walk paths and the three package-root spellings; comment-cop feedback was addressed in 2c10d25.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Two-file change: ~15 lines in src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs (get_package_bins and is_package_bin) and 8 new test cases in the existing describe("bins") block of test/cli/install/bun-pack.test.ts. Fixes three related bun pm pack bugs: a file listed under multiple bin names is packed once per name; directories.bin with a trailing slash produces dir//file entries and duplicates; directories.bin: "" walks the package root a second time.

Security risks

None. Packing runs on the user's own package. The existing bin_path_escapes_root traversal guard is preserved and still checked after the new conditions. without_trailing_slash keeps at least one byte, so an absolute "/" still hits is_absolute_loose and is rejected.

Level of scrutiny

Low-medium. The Rust change is narrow and mechanical: dedupe a small vector before pushing, strip a trailing slash and reject the package-root sentinel before storing, and drop a now-redundant strip at a read site. I traced every consumer of BinInfo::path for BinType::Dir (iterate_project_tree, both branches of iterate_included_project_tree, add_entire_tree, is_package_bin, and the DirInfo seed for the bin-directory walk) — all compare against or join with slash-free subpaths, so storing the path slash-free is the correct fix at the owning layer rather than patching each consumer.

Other factors

The PR description demonstrates the new tests fail on released bun and pass with the fix, and cross-checks the fixed behaviour against npm 11.16. The four files variants in the trailing-slash test explicitly route through each of the four skip sites, which is exactly the "fix the whole class" coverage REVIEW.md asks for. The comment-cop bot flagged verbose inline comments; the author replaced them with named booleans in 2c10d25 and the threads are resolved. No outstanding human review comments.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs`:
- Around line 1613-1618: Update bin_target to apply the existing pack-time
validation that rejects normalized targets escaping the package root, while
preserving its handling of root, directory-like, and package.json values. In
src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs lines 1613-1618, change bin_target
accordingly; in test/cli/install/bun-publish.test.ts lines 1215-1223, add string
and object bin cases using ../tool.js and assert both are omitted from the
published manifest.

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src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs (2)

1522-1532: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate the filesystem kind at both bin consumers. Lexical normalization does not prove that a BinType::File is a file or that a BinType::Dir is a directory.

• src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs#L1522-L1532: check the fstat kind before reading an optional file-form bin, and skip directory targets.
• src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs#L1749-L1754: treat ENOTDIR as an omitted invalid directory target, or validate the kind before expansion.

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In `@src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs` around lines 1522 - 1532, Validate
filesystem kinds at both bin consumers: in src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs lines
1522-1532, use fstat before reading an optional BinType::File target and skip
directory targets; in src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs lines 1749-1754, treat
ENOTDIR as an omitted invalid directory target or validate the target kind
before expansion. Keep bin_subpath and the surrounding packaging/publishing
behavior otherwise unchanged.

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Reject embedded NULs at every bin-path entry point.

• src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs#L1522-L1532: reject NULs in the raw value before normalize_buf.
• src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs#L1613-L1616: apply the same raw-value check in bin_target because string and object bins bypass pack::bin_subpath.

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In `@src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs` around lines 1522 - 1532, Reject embedded
NUL bytes before path normalization in pack_command.rs within bin_subpath,
returning None before calling normalize_buf; also add the same raw-value
validation in publish_command.rs within bin_target for string and object bin
inputs, preserving existing behavior for valid paths.

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In `@src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs`:
- Around line 1522-1532: Validate filesystem kinds at both bin consumers: in
src/runtime/cli/pack_command.rs lines 1522-1532, use fstat before reading an
optional BinType::File target and skip directory targets; in
src/runtime/cli/publish_command.rs lines 1749-1754, treat ENOTDIR as an omitted
invalid directory target or validate the target kind before expansion. Keep
bin_subpath and the surrounding packaging/publishing behavior otherwise
unchanged.
- Around line 1522-1532: Reject embedded NUL bytes before path normalization in
pack_command.rs within bin_subpath, returning None before calling normalize_buf;
also add the same raw-value validation in publish_command.rs within bin_target
for string and object bin inputs, preserving existing behavior for valid paths.

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[claude]

LGTM — the earlier finding on normalize_bin's string/object arms is addressed via bin_target, and the CodeRabbit ../ concern is pinned by tests.

What was reviewed:

• bin_subpath / is_package_root_or_outside cover all three get_package_bins arms; is_package_bin's dropped without_trailing_slash is safe because the stored path is now canonical.
• bin_target on "" → "." → dropped, on "." → "" → dropped, on "lib/" → kept (matches npm's secureAndUnixifyPath); test rows pin each.
• No stale bin_path_escapes_root references remain; normalize_buf already collapses ./ so the removed without_prefix_comptime_z was redundant.
• The one CI failure (test-http-chunk-problem.js) is unrelated and predates the rebase per the status comment.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes bun pm pack and bun publish bin-path handling: files listed under multiple bin names were packed once per name, directories.bin with a trailing slash produced doubled entries with a // in the path, and several edge spellings ("", ".", "lib/", "package.json") either crashed with EISDIR or produced duplicate tarball entries. The fix consolidates three slightly-different normalization paths in get_package_bins into one bin_subpath(value, BinType, buf) helper, adds an O(n²) dedup over the (tiny) bin object values, and shares the same rule with publish_command.rs via pack::bin_subpath (for directories.bin) and a new bin_target (for the string/object arms). bin_path_escapes_root is renamed to is_package_root_or_outside and now also rejects "" and ".".

Security risks

None new. The change strictly tightens what a bin value can name: paths that resolve to the package root or outside it are now rejected in both pack and the published manifest, where previously only some spellings were. normalize_buf already resolves ../cli.js into the package (matching npm's secureAndUnixifyPath), and the shared predicate additionally rejects absolute spellings normalization leaves alone.

Level of scrutiny

Medium. This is CLI-side path normalization for packing/publishing — not hot-path, no memory management, no JS/native boundary. The main risk would be behavior regressions on valid inputs, and the test matrices cover the pre-existing passing spellings alongside the new ones (per the PR description's before/after table, several rows already passed on the released bun and continue to). The net diff is a simplification: three copies of normalize_buf + ad-hoc checks become one helper called three times.

Other factors

• I previously flagged (inline, now resolved) that fixing pack's EISDIR on "bin": "" would let publish's untouched string/object arms send {name: "."} to the registry; that was addressed in d19c2a8/10b42b0 by routing those arms through bin_target, and the new describe("bin in the published manifest") covers all three forms against a mock registry.
• CodeRabbit's ../tool.js concern was answered (normalize_buf resolves it into the package, matching npm) and pinned by test rows in both files; CodeRabbit acknowledged and resolved.
• All comment-cop threads are resolved (the doc comments were removed).
• Test coverage is thorough: test.each over the five ignored bin spellings, four files values × trailing-slash directories.bin (each routes the skip through a different tree walk), three package-root spellings, and eight publish-manifest rows. The PR description shows 10 pack rows and 4 publish rows fail on the released bun.
• The one CI failure on the earlier build (test-http-chunk-problem.js) is on an unrelated node-compat test across all Linux platforms and predates the rebase to 10b42b0.