install: bin.rs owns the bin mode, read once in CommandLineArguments::parse

[robobun]

Problem

• Under the isolated linker, bun install chmods every bin target to 0o777, whatever the umask is. For a workspace: dependency (and on Linux a file: folder dependency) that target is a source file in the repo.
• chmod_on_ok (src/install/bin.rs) took the umask from a static that starts at 0. Only Linker::ensure_umask() filled it, and the isolated installer never called it.

Fix

• bin.rs keeps the mode in a once-cell. CommandLineArguments::parse fills it for each subcommand that can link a bin, while the process has one thread.
• An unset cell means no chmod and a debug assertion, not 0o777. ensure_umask() and its three call sites are deleted.
• Verified: isolated-install.test.ts (bin target modes, 3 of 6 fail without the change), bun-pm-scan.test.ts.
• Draft: Notes lists what is not done.

Background

• libc reads the umask only by setting it (umask(0), then umask(prev)). A file another thread creates in between gets unmasked bits.
• Considered one more ensure_umask() call (this PR's first version): same race, and an unfilled static still means 0o777. Considered a read in main, as in Remove libuv on Windows #42819: every bun process pays 2 syscalls.
• Pm links bins: bun pm scan can install the scanner package.

Downsides

• umask syscalls per process, main to PR: isolated install, bun update, bun pm ls 0 to 2. bun unlink 2 to 0. Hoisted install, bun link, bun --version, bun outdated unchanged.
• A command that links a bin without CommandLineArguments::parse panics in a debug build and skips the chmod in a release build (both run, see Notes). I found none.
• Bun still chmods the source file of a workspace: bin (on Linux also of a file: folder bin), so git still reports mode change 100644 => 100755.

Notes

Not done yet

• The self-review of this diff. Three runs started and none finished: each time the machine that ran the reviewers stopped. No run produced a finding.

Measured (release builds of main and of this diff, fixture: workspace tool + file:./dep, umask 022, private cache. strace is not installed, so the counter is a small ptrace program that counts syscall entries in all threads. The syscall and thread numbers are from builds on base f4d755a, the size and objdump numbers from builds on base bc7a813. The diff is the same.)

command	main: umask calls (threads alive)	PR: umask calls (threads alive)
install --linker isolated	0	2 (1)
install --linker hoisted	2 (4)	2 (1)
update	0	2 (1)
link	2 (2)	2 (1)
unlink	2 (2)	0
pm ls	0	2 (1)
outdated, --version, -e 0	0	0

• With six packages from a local registry and a cold cache, 3 runs each: main hoisted reads the umask with 8, 9 and 7 threads alive. This PR reads it with 1 thread alive in 6 of 6 runs (both linkers).
• install --analyze entry.ts: main 15 threads alive at the read, this PR 1.
• bun --version: 94 syscalls on main and on this PR, 5 of 5 runs each. User instructions by single-step, 3 runs each: main 333906 to 334221, PR 333705 to 334506. The ranges overlap.
• Lazy binds of the umask symbol (LD_DEBUG=bindings): --version and outdated 0 on both. pm ls and isolated install 0 on main, 1 on this PR. Hoisted install 1 on both.
• Binary size, release builds of the merge base (bc7a813) and of this PR (924af40), size: text 80702803, data 110424, bss 1822992 on both. The bun file is 80868936 bytes on both. bloaty is not installed in my environment.
• The chmod site, objdump of Linker::link_bin_or_create_shim in both bun-profile binaries: chmod_on_ok is inlined at two sites. From the load of the static to call lchmod a site has 7 instructions on main and 8 on this PR (a byte load, a compare and a branch replace not and and). The function is 5865 bytes on both and goes from 1277 to 1283 instructions.
• The unset cell in a release build: I moved Install to the false arm of links_bins (not committed) and ran the release link of that build on the fixture. The bin targets keep mode 644 under both linkers (main gives 777 under isolated, this PR 755). The debug half: with Pm in the false arm, bun pm scan on a debug build panics with a bin was linked before bin::init_exec_mode() ran under both linkers.
• 50 bins from local tarballs, both linkers, fresh and repeated install: access, symlink, symlinkat and fchmodat2 counts are the same on main and this PR (isolated fresh 158 / 252 / 50 / 100, repeat 108 / 100 / 0 / 50. hoisted fresh 108 / 51 / 50 / 50, repeat 58 / 100 / 0 / 50). openat is 123 or 124 per repeated isolated install on both. The fchmodat2 mode for isolated goes from 0777 to 0755.

Tests (debug builds, same machine)

• isolated-install.test.ts: the 6 bin target modes tests cover {isolated, hoisted} x umask {022, 077, 002} x {workspace: bin, file: folder bin, file: tarball bin} x {fresh, repeated install}. They check the files that .bin points at, and the workspace source file. Without the change: 3 pass, 3 fail (the isolated rows, all modes 777). With this PR: 6 pass. Whole file: 91 pass.
• The first push of these tests failed on 8 CI lanes (build 122834). The cause was in the tests. CI sets BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR for a whole test file, and that wins over the cache in bunfig.toml, so the six concurrent tests shared one hardlinked inode for the tarball's bin. On macOS the hoisted linker copies a file: folder dependency, so the source file is not the bin target there. 924af40 gives each test its own cache and stops the check of the folder's source file. With a shared BUN_INSTALL_CACHE_DIR on Linux, 4 of 6 failed before that commit and 6 pass after it. I have no macOS machine. CI build 122910 ran 924af40: both test files pass (91 pass and 19 pass) on all 9 test lanes that are not Windows, macOS x64 and aarch64 included. I read those numbers from the job logs.
• bun-pm-scan.test.ts: the 2 new tests pass with this PR. On a canary of main the isolated one fails (777, wanted 700). Whole file: 19 pass.
• Run on an earlier build of the same diff: bun-install-native-binlink.test.ts 16 pass, shebang-normalize.test.ts 1 pass 1 skip, symlink-path-traversal.test.ts 12 pass, isolated-relink.test.ts 6 pass 1 skip, bun run rust:check-all 12 of 12 targets.
• bun-link.test.ts: 3 pass, 1 fail (should link dependency without crashing). It fails the same way on a debug build of main: a debug build prints a stack trace into the stderr that the test compares.
• gdb on the debug build: the new thread-count assertion reads Some(1) for bun install --linker isolated and for bun install --analyze entry.ts.
• The new tests do not run on Windows. Windows links bins as shims and chmods nothing.

Related PRs

• Remove libuv on Windows #42819 deletes ensure_umask() too and makes bun_sys own the umask. It conflicts with this PR in bin.rs. If it lands first, this PR reduces to chmod_on_ok reading sys::get_umask() plus the tests.
• install: honor process umask when creating directories #29726 carries a duplicate ensure_umask() call and a debug_assert on HAS_SET_UMASK. Both must go after this PR.

Left for later

• A bin file in the install cache is hardlinked into every project that uses the package. Its mode is the one from the last install that linked it.
• Bin linking re-links and re-chmods an unchanged bin on every install, under both linkers.
• A bundler macro that calls process.umask() during bun install --analyze does not refresh the mode.
• bun install --lockfile-only with a security scanner configured installs the scanner into node_modules. I saw this while I wrote the scan test and did not look into it.

History of this PR

The first version added one ensure_umask() call to install_isolated_packages. Its code comment said the call ran before the thread pool started. That was false. Earlier versions of this body also listed two callers of ensure_umask() where there were three, and listed the git mode change as something the PR removes. It does not.

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Walkthrough

Unix isolated installs now configure the process umask before starting worker threads. A regression test checks executable and .bin target permissions for workspace and file: dependencies under umasks 022 and 077.

Changes

Isolated install umask handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Initialize umask before worker startup src/install/isolated_install.rs	Unix builds call Linker::ensure_umask() before the isolated install worker pool starts.
Verify installed executable permissions test/cli/install/isolated-install.test.ts	A non-Windows test checks source executables and generated .bin targets for workspace and file: dependencies under umasks 022 and 077.

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Isolated installs now honor the process umask for bin targets, so modes match the hoisted linker. No open merge-blocking risk remains. The earlier test fragility concern was addressed.

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^{Updated 9:50 AM PT - Oct 2nd, 2026}

❌ @robobun, your commit 924af40 has 1 failures in Build #122910 (All Failures):

• test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts - code 1: stdout reader of an unref'd child and process lifetime > an idle reader stopped at the highwater … on 🐧 13 x64-asan

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[claude]

LGTM — one-line fix mirroring the existing ensure_umask() call in hoisted_install.rs:270.

What was reviewed:

• Placement: the call sits before the first thread_pool::Task is constructed (line ~2027), so the cached umask is set before any worker chmods a bin target.
• Checked the other bin::Linker entry points — link_command.rs, unlink_command.rs, and hoisted_install.rs already call ensure_umask(); this was the only gap.
• Test: drains stdout/stderr/exited concurrently, asserts output before exit code, statSync follows the .bin symlink to the target, and 0o644 pre-chmod ensures the assertion fails on the unfixed build (which would produce 777).

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR adds a single #[cfg(unix)]-gated call to crate::bin::Linker::ensure_umask() in install_isolated_packages (src/install/isolated_install.rs), so that the isolated linker's bin chmod uses 0o777 & !umask instead of 0o777. The hoisted linker, bun link, and bun unlink already make this exact call; the isolated linker was the only path that didn't. The test adds a test.skipIf(isWindows).each case to test/cli/install/isolated-install.test.ts covering umask 022 and 077 for both a workspace bin and a file: bin, checking source files and .bin symlink targets.

Security risks

None. The change tightens permissions (from world-writable 0o777 down to umask-masked), which is strictly a security improvement for workspace:/file: bin targets that live in the source tree. ensure_umask() uses a CAS gate on HAS_SET_UMASK so the temporary umask(0) probe is single-winner, and the new call is on the main thread before any pool task is scheduled.

Level of scrutiny

Low. This is a one-line native change that copies the exact pattern from three sibling call sites (hoisted_install.rs:270, link_command.rs:117, unlink_command.rs:139). The comment is load-bearing (explains the main-thread-before-spawn ordering constraint). No new abstractions, no error paths, no allocation.

Other factors

The test follows repo conventions: added to the existing isolated-install.test.ts, uses VerdaccioRegistry.createTestDir, bunExe/bunEnv, test.each, await using on the spawned process, Promise.all to drain pipes, asserts stderr/stdout before exit code, and compares an array of octal strings with .toEqual. The sh -c "umask X && exec \"$0\" install" pattern with bunExe() passed as $0 correctly sets the child's umask. No CODEOWNERS entry covers these paths, and the hunt exited on dry_streak with no findings.

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Status: draft. The design changed after the first version of this PR. The PR body describes the diff as it is now (924af40).

How to reproduce the bug on Linux or macOS:

T=$(mktemp -d); cd $T; mkdir -p packages/tool dep
echo '{ "name": "mono", "private": true, "workspaces": ["packages/*"], "dependencies": { "tool": "workspace:*", "dep": "file:./dep" } }' > package.json
echo '{ "name": "tool", "version": "1.0.0", "bin": { "tool": "./cli.js" } }' > packages/tool/package.json
printf '#!/usr/bin/env node\nconsole.log(1)\n' > packages/tool/cli.js
echo '{ "name": "dep", "version": "1.0.0", "bin": "d.js" }' > dep/package.json; printf '#!/bin/sh\necho d\n' > dep/d.js
chmod 644 packages/tool/cli.js dep/d.js
(umask 077; bun install --linker isolated); stat -c %a packages/tool/cli.js   # 777 without this PR, 700 with it

What is not done:

• The self-review of the diff. Three runs started and none finished, because the machine that ran the reviewers stopped each time. No run produced a finding.

CI for 924af40 (build 122910), read from the job logs: isolated-install.test.ts 91 pass and bun-pm-scan.test.ts 19 pass on all 9 test lanes that are not Windows (macOS x64 and aarch64, debian x64, aarch64 and x64-asan, ubuntu x64 and aarch64, alpine x64 and aarch64). The new tests do not run on Windows. The build before it (122834) failed on 8 lanes in isolated-install.test.ts. The cause was in my new tests. The PR body has the details under Notes. Build 122910 has one red test, test/js/bun/spawn/spawn.test.ts on x64-asan. This PR does not touch that code, and the same test failed on this PR's build 122038 before the rework.

An earlier version of this comment blamed CI for a binary-size failure on September 6. The cause was that the branch was behind main.

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Rebased onto main bf42a52 for a fresh CI run (was ff9dd1d, now 89ba621). There was no conflict and the diff is unchanged: the added and removed lines are the same as before.

Checked on a local debug build of bf42a52 with this branch and 12 other rebased branches merged in: the 2 bin targets honor umask tests of isolated-install.test.ts pass.

[claude]

LGTM — a six-line call that brings the isolated linker in line with the hoisted path, plus a regression test.

What was reviewed:

• Traced UMASK to its consumer: chmod_on_ok in src/install/bin.rs computes 0o777 & !UMASK, and both isolated bin-link sites (src/install/isolated_install/Installer.rs:1812 and :2382) go through it, so the probe is live on the workspace/file: path the test exercises.
• Checked the sibling class: every bin::Linker { .. } construction site (hoisted PackageInstaller, isolated Installer, bun link, bun unlink) now has a preceding ensure_umask() call on the main thread; the isolated call sits at the same relative point as hoisted_install.rs:270, before the install pool spawns.
• Test shape: sources chmod'ed to 0o644 then asserted at 0o777 & ~umask (so a no-op chmod cannot pass), pipes drained concurrently, stderr asserted before exit code, skipIf(isWindows), describe.each for the two masks; on the unfixed build the assertion would see 777.

Extended reasoning...

The production change is a single #[cfg(unix)] call to bin::Linker::ensure_umask() in install_isolated_packages (src/install/isolated_install.rs:1942), mirroring the existing hoisted-path call, and the test file gains a two-case describe.each matrix in the existing isolated-install suite. It touches file-permission behaviour of bin targets (a mild security-adjacent surface, since the bug made checked-in files world-writable) but adds no new parsing, network, or auth surface. Approve was decided by the tiny, pattern-following diff, the fact that all four Linker construction sites are now covered by the same guard, and an accompanying test that cannot be satisfied without the fix; the changed paths have no CODEOWNERS entry and no unresolved third-party objection is visible in the timeline.

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Included in #44968.