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Problem

  • _join_abs_string_buf (src/paths/resolve_path.rs) assumes an absolute base. Given an empty or relative one, it writes / and normalizes from byte 1: ("reltmp", [name]) gives /eltmp/<name>, ("", ["install", "global"]) gives /nstall/global.
  • 13 call sites pass a raw environment value as that base. HOME=rel bun install reads /el/.bunfig.toml. A compiled program run with TMPDIR=reltmp extracts its addon into ./reltmp/ and dlopen()s /eltmp/<name>.
  • bun build --compile --target=<other platform> stored the download with a separate bun_sys::fetch_cache_directory_path() stub. It ignored $BUN_INSTALL, and HOME= sent it to /.bun/install/cache. 1.3 used the bun install lookup.

Fix

  • The primitive makes an unanchored base the first segment under an anchored one: the caller's base when a part replaced it, else the working directory (recorded top-level directory, else getcwd). Both arms do this without re-entering the join. spill and checked reserve room for the prefix.
  • Each site uses the existing idiom: the cwd is the base, the environment value is a part, and an empty value falls through. The global install root is resolved once, because -g changes into the global directory before it opens the bin directory.
  • RealFS::platform_temp_dir and tmpdir_path resolve a relative value once, so the directory handle and the paths built from the string agree. This covers the addon loader and Bun.cron.
  • The cache lookup moves to bun_options_types::install_cache_dir. bun install delegates to it and the stub is deleted.
  • Verified: the new cases in the npmrc, bun-pm, bun-pm-diff, bun-build-compile and cron tests fail on 1.4.0. Also bun_paths under miri and the install, bunx, link and compile suites.

Background

  • join_abs_string* is bun's path.resolve: parts are joined onto a base directory and normalized. An absolute part replaces the base.
  • bun_core::top_level_dir() is the directory bun resolves relative paths against. FileSystem::init, the package manager and process.chdir() keep it current.
  • A compiled program writes an embedded library into the temp directory through a directory handle, then hands dlopen() the temp directory string joined with the file name.
Notes

The Windows arm of the primitive had a debug assertion and returned a relative path in release builds. It now takes the same fallback.

Sites changed (the base came from the environment):

  • bunfig/arguments.rs: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME / $HOME .bunfig.toml. Base is ctx.args.absolute_working_dir, which Arguments::parse records after --cwd; the local config lookup already used it.
  • install/PackageManager.rs: user .npmrc. Same base, so a relative value means the same directory for the bunfig and the npmrc in a -g run.
  • install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs: open_global_dir and open_global_bin_dir share global_install_root() ($BUN_INSTALL, else $XDG_CACHE_HOME/.bun, else $HOME/.bun). BUN_INSTALL= bun add -g x used to create /nstall/global and link into /in. open_global_dir resolves the root before $BUN_INSTALL_GLOBAL_DIR or the bunfig directory can short-circuit it, so the bin directory is derived from the invoking directory in that case too. $BUN_INSTALL_GLOBAL_DIR and $BUN_INSTALL_BIN skip empty values and are still opened relative to the cwd.
  • install/repository.rs: $HOME/.gitconfig probe, base is the top-level directory.
  • runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs: ~/x arguments, base is the invoking directory the command uses for its other relative arguments.
  • runtime/webview/ChromeProcess.rs ($HOME / %LOCALAPPDATA%), standalone_graph ($BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_DUMP_CODE, canary and debug builds only), runtime/ffi/ffi_body.rs ($SDKROOT, macOS): base is the top-level directory.
  • resolver/lib.rs: the Windows %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp fallback and %SYSTEMROOT% skip empty values. get_default_temp_dir is unchanged: the install temp directory is opened relative to the cwd. The string concatenations onto the temp directory (bunx, run, test --changed, pm cache rm) get the absolute value as well.
  • runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs: an empty %SYSTEMROOT% no longer produces \System32\....
  • String concatenation siblings with the same empty-value outcome: install_completions_command.rs (BUN_INSTALL= bun completions tried to create /bin/bunx) and cron.rs on macOS (HOME= pointed at /Library/LaunchAgents).
  • Bun.cron() with TMPDIR=. wrote the crontab temp file into /; with TMPDIR=reltmp it failed with "Failed to create temp file". Both go through platform_temp_dir.

Not changed: the sites that already use the idiom (install_completions_command.rs directory probes, RuntimeTranspilerCache.rs, NodeCompileCache.rs, create_command.rs, NODE_PATH), and the bunfig, CLI flag and JS API inputs, which are already joined as parts onto the cwd.

Empty values: git, npm and the XDG specification treat an empty directory variable as unset. BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR= bun pm cache rm deleted the project directory because the empty value resolved to it. #39750 fixes that independently with the same rule and adds guards to pm cache rm. The two overlap only in fetch_cache_directory_path, and the tests here do not cover pm cache.

#32515 handles five of these sites by skipping non-absolute values. This change resolves them instead, which is what git does with HOME=rel (it reads rel/.gitconfig), and covers the rest of the family. The Windows assertion it cites is the Windows arm of the same primitive.

Under Loose, is_absolute accepts c:/x or :://x (any byte before the :) while leading_separator_index anchors only an upper-case drive. Such a part replaces the base and is still unanchored. An earlier revision of this change re-entered the join with it and recursed until the process died: import(":://filesystem") in resolve-error.test.ts was killed in CI, and BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR=c:/cache bun pm cache overflowed the stack under ASAN (1.4.0 prints /:/cache). The fallback is now built in place, so that part becomes <base>/::/filesystem, and the unit tests pin the three shapes.

Buffer sizing: without the reserved prefix, join_abs_string_spill("", [4092 bytes]) picked the 4096-byte thread-local buffer and overflowed it during normalization. The new unit test panics without that change.

Also run: cargo clippy on the touched crates, rust:check-all for aarch64-apple-darwin, x86_64-pc-windows-msvc and aarch64-linux-android, test/internal/source-lints, config-precedence, minimum-release-age, bun-run-bunfig, transpiler-cache, bun.test.ts, the cron suite, the --global cases of bun-update, bun-prune and bun-install-registry, 29585 and 30717. bun-link.test.ts "should link dependency without crashing" and bunx.test.ts "npm_config_user_agent" fail on a debug build of main as well.

When the new bun pm bin -g tests run against an unfixed bun as root, that bun creates /el-bun, /el-xdg, /el-home and /nstall. That is the bug being pinned. The fixed build stays inside the temp directory.


no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/cron/cron.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm-diff.test.ts, test/bundler/bun-build-compile.test.ts

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Relative paths now resolve from the command’s original working directory. Empty environment values are ignored. Shared cache, configuration, temporary-directory, runtime, and global-install path handling now uses these rules, with regression tests for affected commands.

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Path resolution and environment handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Working-directory-aware path joining
src/paths/resolve_path.rs
Relative and empty path bases now expand against the working directory across POSIX, Windows, Loose, and NT modes. Capacity, precedence, termination, and absolute-base tests cover the new behavior.
Relative temporary-directory normalization
src/resolver/lib.rs, test/bundler/bun-build-compile.test.ts, test/js/bun/cron/cron.test.ts
Temporary-directory values now support owned absolute paths when configured values are relative or empty. Compile and cron tests cover relative temporary directories.
Shared install-cache resolution
src/options_types/install_cache_dir.rs, src/options_types/compile_target.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerDirectories.rs, src/sys/lib.rs, src/options_types/lib.rs, test/bundler/bun-build-compile.test.ts
Install and compile flows use a shared cache resolver with non-empty environment and configuration precedence. The old system helper was removed.
Configuration and global-directory resolution
src/bunfig/arguments.rs, src/install/PackageManager.rs, src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs, src/install/repository.rs, src/runtime/cli/pm_diff_command.rs, test/cli/install/npmrc.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm.test.ts, test/cli/install/bun-pm-diff.test.ts
Global configuration, npmrc, gitconfig, install, bin, and tilde paths now resolve relative values from the recorded working directory and skip empty variables.
Runtime path consumers and fallbacks
src/runtime/api/cron.rs, src/runtime/cli/install_completions_command.rs, src/runtime/cli/upgrade_command.rs, src/runtime/ffi/ffi_body.rs, src/runtime/webview/ChromeProcess.rs, src/standalone_graph/StandaloneModuleGraph.rs
Runtime path construction now uses non-empty environment values and the filesystem top-level directory for relative roots.

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1059-1112: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add regression coverage for empty and relative environment roots.

Test an empty HOME or LOCALAPPDATA value and a relative value. The test must verify that an empty root returns no candidate and a relative root resolves from the working directory before DevTools port-file lookup.

As per coding guidelines, “Every behavioral change must include an automated regression test in the same change.”

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In `@src/runtime/webview/ChromeProcess.rs` around lines 1059 - 1112, Extend the
regression coverage for the DevTools port-file lookup around the
environment-root handling in ChromeProcess: verify that an empty HOME or
LOCALAPPDATA returns no candidate, and that a relative root is resolved against
the working directory before searching candidate paths. Keep the tests
platform-appropriate and exercise the existing lookup behavior rather than
adding unrelated coverage.

Source: Coding guidelines

src/paths/resolve_path.rs (1)

1791-1797: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve an empty parts list against the working directory.

Line 1792 returns _cwd before the non-absolute-base fallback. join_abs_string::<platform::Posix>(b"rel", &[]) returns b"rel" instead of an absolute path. Route this branch through join_onto_working_dir when _cwd is not absolute. Add zero-parts tests for Posix and Loose.

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In `@src/paths/resolve_path.rs` around lines 1791 - 1797, Update the empty-parts
branch in join_abs_string so it returns _cwd directly only when the working
directory is absolute; otherwise route the empty parts through
join_onto_working_dir to produce an absolute path. Preserve the IS_SENTINEL
unreachable behavior, and add zero-parts coverage for Posix and Loose.
src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs (1)

372-376: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve BUN_INSTALL_BIN against the recorded working directory.

Line 372 passes a relative BUN_INSTALL_BIN value to Dir::cwd(). This function can run after the global install changes the current directory. BUN_INSTALL_BIN=rel-bin can then resolve below install/global instead of below the command working directory.

Resolve and retain this override before the directory change, like global_install_root. Add a regression case for a relative BUN_INSTALL_BIN.

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In `@src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs` around lines 372 - 376,
Update the BUN_INSTALL_BIN handling in PackageManagerOptions to resolve and
retain relative override paths against the recorded command working directory
before global installation changes the process directory, matching the existing
global_install_root behavior; preserve absolute paths and add a regression case
covering a relative BUN_INSTALL_BIN.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/bunfig/arguments.rs`:
- Around line 204-206: Update absolute_working_dir and its callers to return and
propagate the underlying getcwd error instead of converting failure to None; in
the explicit relative config-path handling around absolute_working_dir, return
the original error so bun --config relative.toml never silently succeeds when
cwd resolution fails.

In `@src/resolver/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1682-1690: The temporary-directory fallback around getcwd must not
panic when the current directory cannot be read. Update the surrounding resolver
function to propagate the getcwd error or use a fallible platform
temporary-directory API, preserving the existing SYSTEMROOT, WINDIR, and HOME
fallback order and successful path construction.

In `@test/bundler/bun-build-compile.test.ts`:
- Around line 878-884: The subprocess test currently discards stderr; retain the
stderr result from the concurrent Bun.spawn collection and assert it alongside
stdout and exitCode before evaluating extractedLibraries(tmp). Preserve
concurrent draining of stdout, stderr, and process exit, and keep the existing
successful output and extraction assertions.

In `@test/cli/install/bun-pm.test.ts`:
- Around line 947-983: Extend the table-driven tests for bun pm bin -g to cover
empty XDG_CACHE_HOME falling back to HOME, and empty BUN_INSTALL falling through
to a relative XDG_CACHE_HOME. Add the corresponding envOverride entries and
expected root paths in the existing test matrix without changing the setup or
assertions.

In `@test/js/bun/cron/cron.test.ts`:
- Around line 726-732: Update the test environment setup around the env object
to also delete env.BUN_TMPDIR, ensuring the inherited variable cannot override
TMPDIR=cron-tmp in the regression case.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@src/install/PackageManager/PackageManagerOptions.rs`:
- Around line 372-376: Update the BUN_INSTALL_BIN handling in
PackageManagerOptions to resolve and retain relative override paths against the
recorded command working directory before global installation changes the
process directory, matching the existing global_install_root behavior; preserve
absolute paths and add a regression case covering a relative BUN_INSTALL_BIN.

In `@src/paths/resolve_path.rs`:
- Around line 1791-1797: Update the empty-parts branch in join_abs_string so it
returns _cwd directly only when the working directory is absolute; otherwise
route the empty parts through join_onto_working_dir to produce an absolute path.
Preserve the IS_SENTINEL unreachable behavior, and add zero-parts coverage for
Posix and Loose.

In `@src/runtime/webview/ChromeProcess.rs`:
- Around line 1059-1112: Extend the regression coverage for the DevTools
port-file lookup around the environment-root handling in ChromeProcess: verify
that an empty HOME or LOCALAPPDATA returns no candidate, and that a relative
root is resolved against the working directory before searching candidate paths.
Keep the tests platform-appropriate and exercise the existing lookup behavior
rather than adding unrelated coverage.
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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

  • 🔴 src/paths/resolve_path.rs:1859-1866 — The new None arm recurses through join_onto_working_dir unboundedly for platform::Loose on non-Windows when a part like b"c:/foo" (lowercase drive letter, or any non-uppercase-A-Z byte) is passed: is_absolute() accepts it but leading_separator_index() rejects it, so the part is re-promoted to cwd on every recursion and the process stack-overflows. Reachable via e.g. BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR=c:/cache bun install on Linux through the new install_cache_dir::fetch_cache_directory_path (which uses platform::Loose). Fix: make leading_separator_index's Windows arm accept the same X:/ shapes as is_absolute_windows_t (or at minimum lowercase a-z), so the two predicates agree.

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    The None arm at resolve_path.rs:1859-1866 replaces the previous "write a leading / and normalize from byte 1" behavior with a call to join_onto_working_dir, which recursively invokes _join_abs_string_buf with the same platform P. For platform::Loose on a non-Windows host, there exist inputs that Platform::Loose.is_absolute() accepts but Platform::Loose.leading_separator_index() rejects — specifically X:/... or X:\\... where X is not an uppercase ASCII letter (lowercase c:/foo, or e.g. 1:/x). Such an input is promoted to the local cwd at line 1825, lands at the front of temp_buf, hits the None arm at line 1859, and is passed straight back into _join_abs_string_buf as a part — where it is again promoted to cwd, again hits None, and so on until the stack overflows.

    The inconsistency that enables it

    • Platform::Loose.is_absolute() (resolve_path.rs:1170-1171) delegates to is_absolute_windows_t (lib.rs:75-90), whose drive-letter check is p[1] == ':' && (p[2] == '/' || p[2] == '\\') with no constraint on p[0] — the source comment says "X is NOT required to be alphabetic".
    • Platform::Loose.leading_separator_index() (resolve_path.rs:1265-1267) tries the Windows arm first, which at lines 1242-1244 requires path[0] to be in b'A'..=b'Z' (uppercase only), then falls through to the Posix arm (leading /).

    So b"c:/foo"is_absolute() == true, leading_separator_index() == None.

    Step-by-step trace

    Call join_abs_string::<platform::Loose>(b"/project", &[b"c:/cache"]) on Linux:

    1. Line 1777: P::P == Loose and cfg!(windows) is false → stays in the POSIX arm.
    2. Line 1824-1834 loop: Loose.is_absolute(b"c:/cache")truecwd = b"c:/cache", parts = [].
    3. Line 1840: temp_buf = b"c:/cache".
    4. Line 1859: Loose.leading_separator_index(b"c:/cache") → Windows arm: b'c' (0x63) > b'Z' (0x5A) → None; Posix arm: b'c' != b'/'None. Overall None.
    5. Line 1865: join_onto_working_dir::<_, Loose>(buf, &[b"c:/cache"]).
    6. join_onto_working_dir (line 1758-1763): obtains cwd = b"/work" (or the top-level dir), which is absolute, and calls _join_abs_string_buf::<_, Loose>(b"/work", buf, &[b"c:/cache"]). The comment at line 1760-1761 says "the nested join cannot end up back here" — but that only holds when no part is is_absolute.
    7. Back at step 2: the part b"c:/cache" is again is_absolute → promoted over b"/work"cwd = b"c:/cache" → identical state → unbounded recursion.

    Each level also acquires a path_buffer_pool guard (line 1758) and a JoinScratch (line 1837), so this is a stack overflow rather than a hang.

    Why this is a regression from this PR

    Before this PR, the None arm did leading_buf[0] = b'/'; leading_len = 1; and normalized from byte 1 — for b"c:/cache" that produced garbage like b"/:/cache" and the caller would fail with ENOENT or similar, but the process did not crash. This PR replaces that with the recursive fallback and turns the same input into a stack overflow.

    User-reachable trigger

    The new install_cache_dir::fetch_cache_directory_path (added in this PR) calls join_abs_string::<platform::Loose>(top_level_dir, &[dir, ...]) where dir comes from BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR / BUN_INSTALL / XDG_CACHE_HOME / HOME. On Linux or macOS, any of the following now stack-overflow the process:

    BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR=c:/cache bun install
    BUN_INSTALL=c:/bun bun pm cache

    The pre-existing FileSystem::instance().abs() (also platform::Loose) is regressed the same way for any input of this shape. The added test at line 2847 uses uppercase C:/home/u and so does not exercise the failing case.

    Per REVIEW.md, "a panic on user input is a DoS" — this converts a garbage-path edge case (recoverable ENOENT) into a process crash on a user-controllable env var.

    Fix

    Make the two predicates agree. The narrowest fix is to widen leading_separator_index's Windows drive-letter check at resolve_path.rs:1242-1244 to accept the same shapes is_absolute_windows_t accepts (at minimum lowercase a..=z; matching is_absolute_windows_t exactly would accept any byte before :). Alternatively, guard the None arm at line 1859: if P::P.is_absolute(&temp_buf[0..out]) is already true, do not recurse — normalize the drive-letter form directly (or fall back to the old leading-/ behavior for this shape) instead of re-entering join_onto_working_dir with a part that will just be re-promoted.

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@robobun, your commit c9421d2 has 1 failures in Build #103115 (All Failures):


🧪   To try this PR locally:

bunx bun-pr 39781

That installs a local version of the PR into your bun-39781 executable, so you can run:

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The recursion reported above (a part such as c:/x or :://x that is_absolute accepts under Loose but nothing anchors) is fixed in 77d0714. The fallback no longer re-enters the join: the unanchored path becomes a segment under the base it was given, or under the working directory. resolve-error.test.ts, which imports :://filesystem, was the CI failure on the previous head and passes now, and the unit tests pin the c:/x, 1:\x and :://x shapes.

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2695-2870: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore process-global state after these tests.

record_working_dir overwrites bun_core::top_level_dir and does not restore it. Parallel Rust tests can observe /work and fail outside this test group. Serialize this state and restore the prior value after each test.

As per coding guidelines, “Tests must be hermetic” and “isolate process-global state.”

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In `@src/paths/resolve_path.rs` around lines 2695 - 2870, Update
record_working_dir and the affected join_abs tests to serialize access to
bun_core::top_level_dir, capture its prior value, and restore it after each test
completes, including when assertions fail. Ensure parallel tests cannot observe
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src/resolver/lib.rs (1)

1726-1739: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the normalized fallback from get_default_temp_dir.

tmpdir_path() skips an empty BUN_TMPDIR, but get_default_temp_dir() still uses .get() and returns b"" for that value. Callers of get_default_temp_dir() can bypass the new fallback and use an empty path. Return Self::tmpdir_path() from get_default_temp_dir().

Proposed fix
 pub fn get_default_temp_dir() -> &'static [u8] {
-    bun_core::env_var::BUN_TMPDIR
-        .get()
-        .unwrap_or_else(Self::platform_temp_dir)
+    Self::tmpdir_path()
 }

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In `@src/resolver/lib.rs` around lines 1726 - 1739, Update get_default_temp_dir to
return Self::tmpdir_path() so empty BUN_TMPDIR values use the normalized
platform_temp_dir fallback consistently with tmpdir_path.

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In `@src/paths/resolve_path.rs`:
- Around line 2695-2870: Update record_working_dir and the affected join_abs
tests to serialize access to bun_core::top_level_dir, capture its prior value,
and restore it after each test completes, including when assertions fail. Ensure
parallel tests cannot observe the temporary /work value.

In `@src/resolver/lib.rs`:
- Around line 1726-1739: Update get_default_temp_dir to return
Self::tmpdir_path() so empty BUN_TMPDIR values use the normalized
platform_temp_dir fallback consistently with tmpdir_path.

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  • src/resolver/lib.rs
  • src/runtime/webview/ChromeProcess.rs
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I re-reviewed after 49e2417 and found no further issues — the three earlier findings (global-root priming order, undrained pipe in the compile-cache test, POSIX/Windows empty-parts divergence) are all addressed with tests. Because this rewrites the core _join_abs_string_buf primitive and its buffer-sizing helpers, and touches ~13 env-derived path call sites across install/bunfig/resolver/tmpdir, a human pass would still be worthwhile.

Checked this run: the reordered Windows empty-parts fast path in 49e2417 matches the POSIX arm and is pinned by join_abs_with_no_parts_returns_the_base_unchanged_on_both_arms; open_global_dir now primes global_install_root() before the BUN_INSTALL_GLOBAL_DIR/bunfig short-circuits and the new bun-pm.test.ts matrix row covers it; join_abs_result_capacity reserves the working-dir prefix for both spill and checked and the unit test exercises the overflow boundary; the Loose c:/x / :://x shapes that previously recursed are pinned and no longer re-enter the join.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

The PR fixes a bug class where _join_abs_string_buf silently corrupted relative/empty base paths (writing / over byte 0, so rel/el), and reworks 13 call sites that passed raw env-var values as that base. It touches src/paths/resolve_path.rs (the primitive + buffer sizing + Windows arm), src/resolver/lib.rs (temp-dir resolution now once-absolute), src/install/PackageManager* (global dir/bin dir root resolved once via a Once), a new shared install_cache_dir module replacing a divergent bun_sys stub, and assorted env-var call sites (bunfig, npmrc, repository, cron, ffi, webview, upgrade, standalone_graph, install_completions). Five test files gain regression coverage plus ~180 lines of unit tests in resolve_path.rs.

Security risks

The change affects where bun reads config from and where it writes/opens files derived from $HOME/$TMPDIR/$BUN_INSTALL etc. The direction of the fix is strictly safer (relative env values now resolve under the cwd instead of producing garbage paths under /), and empty values now fall through instead of resolving to /. The dlopen path for embedded addons now agrees with the extraction directory. I did not find a path-escape or new privilege boundary introduced here, but the primitive is used pervasively and the buffer-sizing change (join_abs_result_capacity adding MAX_PATH_BYTES headroom) is memory-adjacent.

Level of scrutiny

High. resolve_path.rs is the workhorse behind almost every path bun builds; the PR itself documents that an earlier revision recursed to stack overflow on :://filesystem and overflowed a thread-local buffer without the capacity fix. The author has been thorough (miri, rust:check-all across targets, wide test matrix) and responsive to all three prior findings, but the blast radius argues for a maintainer look.

Other factors

All prior review threads (CodeRabbit's, github-actions comment-cop, and my three inline findings) are resolved with follow-up commits and tests. The PR description enumerates every changed site with rationale and lists overlapping in-flight PRs (#39750, #32515). CI build #101746 is running on the current head.

robobun and others added 9 commits August 22, 2026 01:53
…the join

A part that is_absolute accepts but leading_separator_index does not anchor
(c:/x or :://x under Loose) was promoted to the base on every re-entry, so
join_abs_string::<Loose>(dir, [":://filesystem"]) recursed until the process
died. The unanchored base is now a segment under the base it was given or
under the working directory, with no recursion.
…short-circuits

Otherwise the first use is open_global_bin_dir, after -g has changed into the
global directory, and a relative HOME resolves against that directory.
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robobun force-pushed the farm/8c74334b/join-abs-relative-base branch from 49e2417 to c9421d2 Compare August 22, 2026 02:05

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I reviewed this PR again after the latest commits and found no further issues — the three items I raised earlier (global-root priming order, undrained pipe in the compile-target test, and the POSIX/Windows empty-parts divergence) are all addressed. Because it rewrites the anchoring behavior of _join_abs_string_buf and threads that through ~18 call sites across the install, resolver, compile-target and temp-dir paths, a human look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • The new anchor/head/segment logic in _join_abs_string_buf and the Windows arm, including the Loose c:/x / :://x case that previously recursed — now built in place, pinned by unit tests.
  • join_abs_result_capacity reserving MAX_PATH_BYTES for the working-dir prefix so spill/checked don't underflow the scratch buffer; the new unit test exercises the boundary.
  • global_install_root() is now primed before the BUN_INSTALL_GLOBAL_DIR/bunfig short-circuits, and the bun pm bin -g matrix covers that case.
  • fetch_cache_directory_path consolidation preserves the original precedence order and Loose platform, and the deleted bun_sys stub has no remaining callers.
Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR fixes a class of bugs where _join_abs_string_buf (the path.resolve-like primitive in src/paths/resolve_path.rs) assumed an absolute base and, given a relative or empty one, invented a leading / and normalized from byte 1 — producing paths like /eltmp/<name> from ("reltmp", [name]). Thirteen call sites passed raw environment values (HOME, TMPDIR, BUN_INSTALL, XDG_*) as that base. The fix has two parts: (1) the primitive now anchors an unanchored base under the caller's base or the recorded working directory, built in place rather than by re-entry; (2) each affected call site is reshaped to the existing idiom (cwd as base, env value as a part, empty falls through via get_not_empty()). It also consolidates the bun install cache-directory lookup into bun_options_types::install_cache_dir (deleting the divergent bun_sys stub) and makes platform_temp_dir/tmpdir_path resolve a relative value once. 18 source files and 5 test files.

Security risks

The pre-PR behavior had the more concerning failure mode: relative env values resolved to arbitrary root-anchored paths with a byte dropped (e.g. BUN_INSTALL= bun completions tried to create /bin/bunx; HOME= on macOS pointed at /Library/LaunchAgents). After this change those resolve under the invoking cwd or fall through when empty. I checked that the new anchoring cannot escape via .. (it goes through the same normalize step as before) and that the Loose absolute-but-unanchored parts (c:/x, :://x) no longer trigger unbounded recursion. No new untrusted-input parsing is introduced; env-var reads use the existing env_var::*.get_not_empty() helpers.

Level of scrutiny

High. _join_abs_string_buf is a foundational primitive reached from the resolver, bundler, install, bunx, compile, and temp-file paths on every platform. The buffer-sizing change (join_abs_result_capacity adding MAX_PATH_BYTES when the base is unanchored) and the Windows arm's one-level self-recursion both need a human to confirm they don't regress the many callers not covered by the new tests. The global_install_root() process-global Once is also worth a second pair of eyes for the worker/multi-VM case, though -g is CLI-only.

Other factors

The author responded to every round of automated feedback (CodeRabbit, comment-cop, and three of mine) with targeted commits and added regression tests for each. The PR description enumerates the sibling sites and explicitly names what was verified (miri on bun_paths, rust:check-all across targets, the install/bunx/link/compile suites). All review threads on the PR are resolved. Given the breadth and the fact that the primitive's fast path is now conditionally different, I'm deferring rather than approving.

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CI on the rebased head (build 103115): the only test that fails on every lane is test/cli/install/bun-audit.test.ts, which fails on main as well (its snapshot normalizer now rewrites the advisory range <1.4.1 as the bun version). It is reported separately. Every other failure passed on retry. Nothing in this diff is involved; I will rebase once main is fixed if a green build is wanted before merging.

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