test(shell): stop the ls/rm/bunshell tests from running bun install against the registry

[robobun]

Problem

• Three shell tests run a real bun install against the public registry: the node_modules tests in test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts and ls.test.ts (15 packages: eslint, typescript, biome, ...) and subshell > sharp in test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts (sharp@0.33.3). Tests must not contact the registry (test/CLAUDE.md), and all three run under the 5000ms default timeout.
• rm.test.ts and ls.test.ts call setDefaultTimeout(5 min) inside a module-level beforeAll. The runner copies the default into each test when test() is registered (src/runtime/test_runner/ScopeFunctions.rs:746); beforeAll runs after the whole file is registered, so the call changes nothing.
• Debug build, cold install cache (rm -rf ~/.bun/install/cache), bcba472: (fail) bunshell ls > recursive > node_modules [5000.26ms], this test timed out after 5000ms.; the rm variant passed at 2.8s and has been seen failing the same way at 5004ms.
• The assertions were also weak: ls compared bun's ls -RA output of the installed tree with bun's own output of the same tree; rm discarded the install's exit status (&> /dev/null; rm -rf node_modules/), so doesNotExist("node_modules") held even when nothing was installed.
• Test-only change; nothing under src/ is touched.

Fix

• nodeModulesTree() in test/js/bun/shell/util.ts builds a node_modules-shaped tree (4 top-level packages with nested node_modules two levels deep, scoped packages, .bin, dotfiles, empty directories; 28 packages, ~580 files) in the form tempDir() accepts. Both node_modules tests build it locally; the dead beforeAll/setDefaultTimeout blocks and packagejson() helpers are deleted.
• One directory in the tree (pkg-0/lib/rules, 300 entries with 33-byte names) is wider than the 8 KiB that bun_sys::dir_iterator reads per call (src/sys/lib.rs:111): about 16.8 KiB of getdents64/getdirentries64 records, about 40 KiB of FILE_DIRECTORY_INFORMATION. The installed tree used to have such directories (eslint's lib/rules has ~290 entries), and rm -r unlinking entries between refills (src/runtime/shell/builtin/rm.rs, which unlike Dir::delete_tree has no ENOTEMPTY retry) is otherwise covered by nothing in-tree, so the generated tree keeps that property.
• ls: ls -RA . is asserted against a listing derived from the tree (expectedRecursiveListing: each entry once under its parent plus one ./dir: header per directory). Checked once against coreutils ls -RA on the same tree (before the wide directory was added): identical, 621 lines. The test was test.if(isPosix) only because of the install and now runs on Windows too.
• rm: rm -rf node_modules/ must exit 0 with empty output, remove the tree, and leave the file behind a directory link in place; on POSIX a file symlink and a dangling symlink are removed as well.
• The directory link in both tests is created with symlinkSync(target, link, "junction"): the type is ignored on POSIX (node_fs.rs:3153) and on Windows it creates a junction without needing SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege (relative target resolved against the link's directory, node_fs.rs:7938). That gives "listed but not descended" (ls) and "unlinked, target kept" (rm) their first Windows coverage; before this PR every link test in shell rm was skipIf(win32).
• bunshell.test.ts: the sharp test is replaced by cd & pwd > cd applies to external commands run afterwards (cd dir && bun -e 'console.log(process.cwd())'). Running an external command after cd was the only shell behavior it covered that no other test in the file does; mkdir/cd/redirect are covered by redirect to file and the cd & pwd block.
• test/no-validate-leaksan.txt: the ls.test.ts and bunshell.test.ts entries are removed. Both were listed in 45760cd ("root cause unclear") and both were the files whose tests asserted on a child bun install's exit status (.throws(true) / .exitCode(0)); the child inherits detect_leaks=1 and can abort with exit 134. rm.test.ts, which ran the same install but discarded its status, was never listed. Neither file runs an install any more. test/parallel-allowlist.json and expected-durations.json are generated from CI data and left alone.
• Verified on Linux (debug, ASAN): bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts passes apart from the two pre-existing permission denied tests, which fail here only because the container runs as root; the rewritten tests took 0.3s (rm) and 0.8s (ls) on an idle machine before the wide directory was added, 0.6s and 1.6s with it on a machine at load average ~40. bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts: 423 pass, 0 fail.
• Verified the LSAN removals as a non-root user with the runner's exact environment (BUN_DESTRUCT_VM_ON_EXIT=1, ASAN_OPTIONS=...detect_leaks=1:abort_on_error=1, LSAN_OPTIONS=...suppressions=test/leaksan.supp, cwd = repo root, debug ASAN build): ls.test.ts 8/8 runs 29 pass, rm.test.ts 2/2 runs 7 pass, bunshell.test.ts 3/3 runs 426 pass (about 76s each, the same as without LSAN); exit 0 and no sanitizer output in every run. The child processes those files spawn run under the same options, so they were leak-checked too.
• Verified on windows-x64 with the current canary build: both command files pass with the final fixture (28 pass, 8 POSIX-only skips) and the new cd test passes. A probe confirmed lstat reports the junction as a link, ls -RA lists linked without a linked: header, and rm -rf removes it while outside/keep.txt survives.
• Not changed here: test/js/node/dns/node-dns.test.js, test/integration/expo-app/expo.test.ts and test/integration/esbuild/esbuild.test.ts use the same no-op beforeAll(() => setDefaultTimeout(...)), and the runner's test/js/bun/test/setTimeout-test-fixture.js relies on it without its test being able to notice. They pass with the default today; whether the runner should honor hook-time calls again or the files should move the call to module scope is a runner question being handled separately. The other shell entries in no-validate-leaksan.txt (leak, lex, env.positionals, shell-hang) never ran an install, so the reasoning above says nothing about them; they are not touched.

Background

• setDefaultTimeout(ms) (alias jest.setTimeout) sets a per-file override that test()/hook registration copies into each entry's timeout. Before the test runner rewrite (Rewrite test/describe, add test.concurrent #22534) the override was read when a test started, so calling it from beforeAll worked; that PR moved the lookup to registration time and converted bun-install-registry.test.ts to a module-scope call, but these files kept the old pattern.
• bun test first collects a file (runs the module body, registering tests and hooks) and then executes it (runs hooks and tests). A module-level beforeAll belongs to the execution phase, so nothing it does can affect how tests were registered.
• tempDir(prefix, tree) from test/harness.ts materializes an object of relative/path: contents entries (an object value creates an empty directory) in a fresh temporary directory and removes it when the using binding goes out of scope.
• A junction is the Windows directory-link type that unprivileged users can create; like a symlink it is a reparse point that lstat reports as a link, and ls -R/rm -r are expected to treat it as an entry rather than descend into it.
• test/no-validate-leaksan.txt lists test files that the ASAN CI lanes run without LeakSanitizer; every other file runs with detect_leaks=1 and the VM torn down at exit so leaks are reported.

Repro of the no-op on its own

import { beforeAll, setDefaultTimeout, test } from "bun:test";
beforeAll(() => setDefaultTimeout(10_000));
test("sleeps 6s", () => Bun.sleep(6000));

bun test on 1.3.13, 1.3.14 and 1.4.0: this test timed out after 5000ms. Moving the call to module scope makes it pass.

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[robobun]

^{Updated 1:53 AM PT - Aug 16th, 2026}

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[robobun]

Status: reproduced on bcba472 with a debug build and a cold install cache (rm -rf ~/.bun/install/cache, then bun bd test test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts): bunshell ls > recursive > node_modules times out at 5000ms, bunshell rm > node_modules passes at 2.8s.

Current state (0412dd6): the three shell tests that ran bun install (rm.test.ts, ls.test.ts, bunshell.test.ts sharp) build their fixtures locally, including one 300-entry directory so recursive ls/rm still cross a readdir buffer boundary; the directory-link assertions run on Windows via junctions; ls.test.ts and bunshell.test.ts are removed from no-validate-leaksan.txt after clean runs under the runner's LSAN environment. Passes on the Linux debug/ASAN build and on windows-x64. Test-only change; the only CI failures on the previous builds were in unrelated files (blob.test.ts, fixed on main since; require-cache.test.ts and test-cluster-shared-leak.js, reported separately).

[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

Changes

The shell tests now use generated temporary directory trees instead of package installation. Recursive ls output and rm -rf symlink safety receive direct coverage, including skipped Windows-specific scenarios.

Shell filesystem tests

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generated node_modules fixture test/js/bun/shell/util.ts	Adds nodeModulesTree, which creates nested packages, scoped dependencies, metadata, files, empty directories, and .bin entries.
Recursive ls coverage test/js/bun/shell/commands/ls.test.ts	Uses the generated temporary tree for ls -RA, derives expected directory listings, handles POSIX symlinks, and asserts stdout, stderr, and exit status.
rm symlink safety coverage test/js/bun/shell/commands/rm.test.ts	Replaces package installation with direct symlink tests and adds skipped coverage for directory-to-symlink races and relative operand resolution.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#38961: Covers related recursive ls behavior and entry-type handling for DT_UNKNOWN entries.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

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[claude]

LGTM — hermetic test rewrite that drops the public-registry bun install and the no-op beforeAll(setDefaultTimeout).

What was reviewed:

• expectedRecursiveListing derivation traced against ls -RA semantics (per-parent basenames via full-path Set + ./dir: headers) and sortedLsOutput's .: filter / backslash normalization for the newly-enabled Windows path.
• nodeModulesTree() keys checked against makeTreeSyncFromDirectoryTree — {} values create empty dirs, /-separated keys mkdir parents recursively, insertion order avoids non-recursive-mkdir collisions.
• rm test: symlink-target survival assertion and combined-object toEqual; confirmed removed BUN/DEV_NULL/packagejson()/beforeAll have no remaining references and remaining imports are all live.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only change to test/js/bun/shell/commands/{ls,rm}.test.ts and their shared util.ts. The two node_modules tests previously ran a real bun install of ~15 npm packages against the public registry inside a 5s default timeout (the file-level beforeAll(() => setDefaultTimeout(5min)) is a no-op because timeouts are captured at test registration, not execution). They're replaced with a locally-built ~280-file node_modules-shaped tree via a new nodeModulesTree() helper, and the assertions are strengthened: ls -RA is now compared against a listing derived from the tree (previously it compared bun's output to itself), and rm -rf now asserts exit 0, empty output, tree removal, and (POSIX) that a directory symlink is unlinked without following into its target. The dead setDefaultTimeout, packagejson(), BUN/DEV_NULL constants, and the install-kickoff promise are removed.

Security risks

None. Test-only, no src/ changes, no network, no auth/crypto. The change actually removes a public-network dependency, which the repo's test guidelines explicitly prohibit.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. This is test hardening in a non-critical suite (shell builtins ls/rm). The main thing to verify is that the new derived expectation (expectedRecursiveListing) actually models ls -RA output — I traced it: the full-path Set deduplicates intermediate directories while preserving one basename entry per unique full path (so mod0.js correctly appears once per lib/ it lives under), and every non-string-valued or intermediate prefix becomes a ./dir: header. sortedLsOutput strips .: and empty lines and normalizes backslashes, so the Windows path (newly enabled) lines up with the /-keyed tree and posix.basename. The PR description states this was diffed against coreutils ls -RA (621 lines identical) and verified on both Linux debug+ASAN and windows-x64 canary.

Other factors

• I checked makeTreeSyncFromDirectoryTree in test/harness.ts: {} values do mkdirSync(joined) (creating the empty dirs the ls test relies on), and /-separated keys create parents with {recursive: true}, so nodeModulesTree()'s insertion order (package.json before empty before nested deps; .bin/pkg-i after each package) can't hit an EEXIST or ENOENT.
• All removed imports/constants are confirmed unused; all remaining imports (beforeAll in ls, bunExe/bunEnv/mkdirSync/etc. in rm) are still referenced by unchanged tests in the same files.
• The rm test uses the repo-preferred combined-object toEqual pattern and using tempDir; the ls test asserts stderr before stdout before exitCode. Follows harness conventions.
• No prior reviewer comments to address; CI build was just kicked off at the time of review.

[claude]

LGTM — test-only change that makes the shell ls/rm node_modules tests hermetic and strengthens their assertions.

What was reviewed:

• Traced expectedRecursiveListing() against ls -RA . semantics for the generated tree (basenames + ./dir: headers, empty-dir handling via typeof contents !== "string") — matches the sorted/filtered output shape.
• Checked the removed sharp test in bunshell.test.ts: it was in describe("subshell") but only exercised cd affecting a spawned external command; the new cd applies to external commands test covers that directly without the registry.
• Verified nodeModulesTree() values fit DirectoryTree from harness, and that removing ls.test.ts from no-validate-leaksan.txt strengthens rather than weakens CI.
• The blob.test.ts CI failure is in an untouched file.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only PR touching five files under test/. The two shell node_modules tests (ls.test.ts, rm.test.ts) previously ran a real bun install of ~15 packages against npmjs.org inside a 5s budget (the beforeAll(() => setDefaultTimeout(5min)) was a no-op because timeouts are captured at test registration). This PR replaces the install with a locally generated node_modules-shaped tree via a new nodeModulesTree() helper in test/js/bun/shell/util.ts, derives the expected ls -RA output from the tree definition, and adds symlink coverage to both tests. It also removes the sharp install test from bunshell.test.ts (which hit the public registry from inside describe("subshell") but didn't test subshells) and replaces it with a direct cd-affects-external-command test. ls.test.ts is removed from the LSAN skip list.

Security risks

None. No src/ changes. The only outward-facing effect is removing three public-registry network calls from CI, which reduces attack surface and flake exposure rather than adding any.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-medium. This is test infrastructure: no runtime code paths change, and the tests are strictly stronger than before (the old ls test compared bun's output to itself; the old rm test discarded the install exit code so doesNotExist("node_modules") was vacuous when the install failed). I traced expectedRecursiveListing by hand against a small subtree to confirm the basename-set + header-set construction matches what sortedLsOutput produces from ls -RA ., including the empty-directory case ({} value → header emitted). The "junction" symlink type is the standard cross-platform pattern (ignored on POSIX, no privilege on Windows), and the PR description reports both platforms verified.

Other factors

• Aligns with REVIEW.md: "Never contact external network hosts or live registries", "Use tempDir from harness", "Delete dead code in the same PR that makes it dead" (dropped packagejson(), BUN/DEV_NULL constants, dead setDefaultTimeout).
• The LSAN skip-list removal for ls.test.ts re-enables a safety net rather than disabling one.
• The single CI failure (test/js/web/fetch/blob.test.ts on x64-asan) is in a file this PR does not touch.
• The one CodeRabbit comment (about the pre-existing fileExists helper) was resolved as out-of-scope; that helper is unchanged and used only by tests this PR does not modify.

[claude]

LGTM — test-only hermeticity fix that swaps three registry-hitting bun install fixtures for locally-built trees.

What was reviewed:

• expectedRecursiveListing() algorithm: traced full-path Set → basename mapping against ls -RA semantics for nested/scoped/duplicate-basename cases; multiplicity is correct.
• nodeModulesTree() keys against makeTree's slash-handling and {}-as-empty-dir contract; intermediate dirs are created recursively before the leaf mkdir.
• Removed BUN/DEV_NULL/setDefaultTimeout constants have no remaining references in either file; beforeAll/isPosix imports still used.
• New bunshell cd test's BUN and temp_dir are module-level in scope; the emptied subshell describe still has other tests.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

Test-only PR touching five files under test/: replaces bun install-against-npmjs.org fixtures in ls.test.ts, rm.test.ts, and bunshell.test.ts with a locally generated node_modules-shaped tree (nodeModulesTree() in test/js/bun/shell/util.ts). Adds expectedRecursiveListing() to derive the expected ls -RA output from a DirectoryTree, removes dead beforeAll(() => setDefaultTimeout(...)) blocks and packagejson() helpers, drops ls.test.ts from no-validate-leaksan.txt, and replaces the sharp install test with a cd + external-command test. No src/ changes.

Security risks

None. Test infrastructure only; no auth, crypto, network-facing, or user-input-parsing code is touched. The change actually removes outbound network contact from the test suite.

Level of scrutiny

Low-to-moderate. Nothing here ships in the binary. The main correctness question is whether the new assertions are sound (not vacuous, not tautological like the old ls test that compared bun's output to itself). I walked expectedRecursiveListing() against the ls -RA output shape for the generated tree — the Set-of-full-paths → basename array preserves the right multiplicity (each entry appears once per parent listing), and the typeof contents !== "string" directory check matches what nodeModulesTree() produces (strings and {} only). The rm test's symlink-survival assertion (keptFileOutsideTree: true) is a genuine strengthening over the old doesNotExist("node_modules") which passed even when install failed.

Other factors

• The PR description documents verification on Linux debug/ASAN (including 6 LSAN runs as non-root) and windows-x64 canary, with a probe confirming junction behavior on Windows.
• The one CodeRabbit finding (pre-existing fileExists helper) was correctly declined as out-of-scope and resolved.
• Removed constants (BUN, DEV_NULL, setDefaultTimeout) have no remaining callers in the modified files; retained imports (beforeAll, isPosix, bunExe) are still used.
• The change follows harness conventions: using tempDir, combined-object toEqual, exit code asserted last, symlinkSync(..., "junction") for cross-platform directory links.

[claude]

LGTM — test-only change that removes registry access from three shell tests and strengthens their assertions. The one inline finding is a PR-description text mismatch, not a code issue.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR replaces three shell tests that ran a real bun install against npmjs.org with locally-built fixture trees. It touches only test/: adds nodeModulesTree() in test/js/bun/shell/util.ts, rewrites the node_modules tests in ls.test.ts and rm.test.ts to use it, adds expectedRecursiveListing() to derive the expected ls -RA output from the tree shape, replaces the sharp install in bunshell.test.ts with a cd + external-command test, deletes the dead beforeAll(() => setDefaultTimeout(...)) blocks, and removes two entries from no-validate-leaksan.txt.

Security risks

None. This is test-only; nothing under src/ is touched. The change removes external network access rather than adding any. symlinkSync(..., "junction") targets are inside the tempDir and the tests assert the link is not followed outside the tree.

Level of scrutiny

Medium — it's a test refactor, so the risk is limited to CI health rather than shipped behavior. I traced expectedRecursiveListing() against the sortedLsOutput normalizer and against a small worked example (basenames from the full-path Set plus one ./dir: header per directory) and it matches what ls -RA . produces after filtering .: and blanks. The nodeModulesTree() keys are all /-separated so they interact correctly with both tempDir() and the split("/") in the listing helper. The rm test's combined-object assertion covers stdout/stderr/exitCode plus the two filesystem invariants (tree removed, target behind the link kept). The junction approach on Windows was verified on a canary build per the description.

Other factors

• REVIEW.md explicitly requires tests not contact live registries; this PR brings three offenders into compliance and makes previously-weak assertions strict (the old ls test compared bun's output to itself; the old rm test passed even when nothing was installed).
• Removing bunshell.test.ts and ls.test.ts from no-validate-leaksan.txt strictly strengthens the LSAN safety net — worst case is a CI-only revert of two lines. Commit 0412dd6a's title makes clear the bunshell removal was deliberate; the inline nit just asks the description text be updated to match.
• The one CodeRabbit comment (fileExists helper) is resolved and out of scope for this PR.
• The robobun CI status shows only an unrelated test-cluster-shared-leak.js timeout on windows-aarch64; the ASAN lanes did not flag either re-enabled file.