node:http2: port node's respondWithFD() and respondWithFile() response paths by robobun · Pull Request #43564 · oven-sh/bun

robobun · 2026-09-19T20:29:40Z

Problem

stream.respondWithFD(fd) waits for fs.fstat before it sends the headers (src/js/node/http2.ts:3436). A respond() right after it does not throw ERR_HTTP2_HEADERS_SENT, and the client hangs.
A second respondWithFD() on one descriptor sends an empty body, because the read starts at the position of the descriptor.
No user reported these. A comparison with node v26.3.0 found them.

Fix

Without a statCheck, respondWithFD() sends the headers before it returns. With one, fstat calls doSendFD. Both port node v26.3.0.
respondWithFD() reads its range at the offset, like node. A failure before the headers destroys the stream without a respond(), and no read starts once the stream is gone.
Verified: test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js runs a 101-case fixture under bun and node v26 against one expected output. 5 of the 9 new tests fail on main.

Background

respondWithFD(fd) sends a descriptor that the caller owns. respondWithFile(path) opens and closes its own. statCheck is a user callback on the fs.Stats.
With no length, an fstat after the headers sizes the read. Otherwise each read allocates 64 KiB and the request rate halves.
Weighed: a pipe like node's startFilePipe in place of the read stream. It changes every file response, so it waits for a separate decision.

Downsides

respondWithFD() no longer adds content-length, as on node: the headers go out before a size is known. The empty-fd case of main's range test expects none now.
+1890 B of module text, and 5 to 7 more cells per file response (159 to 166 for respondWithFD()).
Eight of the 101 cases differ from node (Notes).

Notes

Repro (in a 'stream' handler, under bun and under node):

st.respondWithFD(fd);
st.respond({ ":status": 201 });
// node: ERR_HTTP2_HEADERS_SENT, and the client gets 200 and the file.
// main: no throw. The client gets 201 and then waits forever.

// One descriptor, opened once, for every request.
server.on("stream", st => st.respondWithFD(fd));
// node: the file each time. main: the file once, then 200 with an empty body.

What main fixed while this PR was open. #46021 and #46270 guard the two respond() calls in doSendFileFD, end an empty range without a read, make length: 0 an empty body, and reset the stream with ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE for an offset or a length that is not valid. The two process exits that an earlier version of this text started with are gone on main. The merge keeps that range check for respondWithFile(). respondWithFD() follows node here: it truncates a fraction, and an offset past the end gives an empty body.

The fixture. test/js/node/http2/node-http2-respond-file.fixture.mjs makes 101 calls on one session (93 on macOS, 91 on Windows) and prints one line for each: what the call did on the server (a throw, headersSent, 'error', the statCheck arguments) and what the client saw. The test runs it under bun and, when node v26 or later is installed, under node. Both runs are compared with one expected output.

It replaces the seven tables of the earlier revision of this PR, and it has the 10 cases of the fixture in node:http2: do not call respond() when a file response fails before the headers are sent #43463.
On main the run stops after 36 cases: a statCheck that closes the stream breaks the session for the next request.
The three cases with a /proc file and the five with a FIFO run on Linux only. On Windows the fixture leaves out the two cases with a directory descriptor.
On Windows, node fails a read with a negative offset other than -1. The test expects node's own line there for the two cases that have one (offset: -7 and offset: -5). Bun reads from the current position on every platform.
Node prints another line for 8 of the 101 cases. The test keeps node's line for each of them:
- A FIFO with the default offset, with a statCheck, and with a length (3 cases). Node reads at offset 0 and the read fails. Bun reads the FIFO from its position.
- A statCheck sets length to 2 ** 40. Node coerces with | 0 and sends an empty body. Bun keeps the range.
- respondWithFile() with offset: -5. Node adds the offset to content-length (15 for a 10-byte file) and the client ends the stream with PROTOCOL_ERROR. Bun reads from 0 and sends content-length: 10.
- A request pseudo-header in the response headers. Node leaves headersSent true on the destroyed stream. Bun leaves it false.
- A statCheck that closes the stream with a code, for both methods. Node's client sees that code. Bun sends no code for a stream that sent nothing (node:http2: send RST_STREAM when a server stream is reset #33380).

Measurements, main and this PR. The two binaries are release builds of one tree. Only http2.ts differs. The client is node v26.3.0 in another process. They are from Oct 17, against main at e4c638f. main has changed doSendFileFD since (the range check and the empty range), and this PR got the /proc and pipe cases. The read path that they measure is the same. The module text is from the merged branch.

	main	this PR
module text of `node/http2.js` in a release build	169693 B	171583 B (+1890 B)
cells allocated by `require("node:http2")`, with `node:fs/promises` loaded	3324	3336
same, without it (main loads it for a `FileHandle` import that is gone)	3930	3339
requests per second against main, `respond()` + `end(1000 B)` (control)	1.00	0.93
requests per second, `respondWithFD(fd)` of 1000 B	1.00	1.05
requests per second, `respondWithFD(fd, {}, { statCheck })`	1.00	0.97
requests per second, `respondWithFD(fd, {}, { length: 1000 })`	1.00	1.19
requests per second, `respondWithFile(path)` of 1000 B	1.00	0.98
instructions:u per response, `respond()` + `end(1000 B)` (control)	109950	109738
instructions:u, `respondWithFD(fd)` of 1000 B	287998	288426
instructions:u, `respondWithFD(fd, {}, { length: 1000 })`	295386	290114
instructions:u, `respondWithFD` of 200000 B	802109	795918
instructions:u, `respondWithFile` of 1000 B	284214	281251
cells per response: plain, `respondWithFD` 1000 B, `respondWithFile` 1000 B, `respondWithFile` 200000 B	59, 159, 186, 242	59, 166, 191, 247
`process.nextTick` entries per response: plain, file 1000 B, file 200000 B	7, 16, 25	7, 16, 25
`Buffer.allocUnsafeSlow` bytes per `respondWithFD(fd)` of 1000 B	1000	1000

How they were taken:

Requests per second are the median ratio of 60 interleaved batches of 200 requests, 50 at a time, with the servers side by side. The machine had 25% to 35% steal, so only ratios are given. The control moved between 0.93 and 1.05 across runs.
Instructions are the slope between 1000 and 5000 sequential responses (200 and 1000 for 200000 B), 5 interleaved runs, counted with perf_event_open on the server process. The spread is 1% to 9%.
Cells are the difference of heapStats().objectTypeCounts with the GC off, on the debug build, without strings and structures. The 5 to 7 more cells are the fs option of the read stream and the fstat callback.

Why an fstat still runs after the headers. Node does not stat the descriptor when there is no statCheck. The first revision of this PR did the same and read to EOF. The read stream then allocates 64 KiB for each read, and the collector runs far more often: respondWithFD(fd) of a 1000-byte file served 0.49 of main's requests per second (0.47 with a statCheck). Now the size comes from the stat that statCheck got, or from an fstat after the headers, and the buffer has the size of the file again. A size of 0 is not used: a file in /proc is a regular file of size 0 that has content, so it is read to EOF, as on node. A client sees no difference. With a length no fstat runs (main runs one).

Behavior that changes for respondWithFD()

call	main	node and this PR
`respondWithFD(fd)`	`headersSent` false, `content-length` added from `fstat`	`headersSent` true, no `content-length`
second `respondWithFD(fd)` with the same `fd`	`200`, `content-length: 10`, empty body	whole file
`{ offset: 1.5 }`, `{ length: NaN }`	stream reset with `ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE`	truncated to an integer (`NaN` is 0)
`{ offset: 100 }` on a 10-byte file	stream reset with `ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE`	`200`, empty body
`{ statCheck }`	`content-length` added, third argument is the options object	no `content-length`, third argument is `{ offset, length }` and it is read back after the call
`{ statCheck }` with a bad fd	`200`, then `ERR_HTTP2_STREAM_ERROR`	no headers, stream destroyed with `EBADF`
fd `-1` (a closed `FileHandle`)	sync `ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE` after the writable side was closed	`200`, then RST_STREAM `INTERNAL_ERROR` on a later tick
directory fd	`ERR_HTTP2_SEND_FILE`	`200`, then RST_STREAM `INTERNAL_ERROR` (the read fails)
closed stream	no throw	throws `ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_STREAM`

Behavior that changes for respondWithFile()

call	main	node and this PR
closed stream	no throw	throws `ERR_HTTP2_INVALID_STREAM`
`{ statCheck }`	called with the options object as a third argument	called with two arguments
directory, no `onError`	`200`, then the stream is destroyed	no headers, stream destroyed with `ERR_HTTP2_SEND_FILE`
`statCheck` closes the stream	HEADERS go out on the closed stream, and the next request on the session fails	nothing is sent

Deliberate differences from node

A descriptor that cannot seek (a pipe, a socket, a tty) with offset 0. Node reads at offset 0, the read fails, and the stream is reset after the headers. Here a first read that fails with ESPIPE is done again from the position of the descriptor. main read such a descriptor that way, so programs that send one keep working. offset: -1 reads it on node too.
Math.trunc where node has | 0. Node wraps a range at 2^31: length: 2 ** 40 from a statCheck becomes 0 there, and node then sends an empty body. Here a range past 2 GiB works. Every value below 2^31 gives the same result as node.
A negative offset in respondWithFile() reads from 0 and keeps a correct content-length (see the fixture cases above).
respondWithFile() resets the stream with ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE for an offset past the end, a fraction or NaN, as main does since Hardening: fix crashes across the runtime, bundler, dev server, shell and CLI #46021. Node sends a content-length that the client rejects.
A statCheck that throws in respondWithFile(): the descriptor is closed before the error goes on. Node leaks it.

Not covered here

respond() details that the file responses inherit: status validation happens in respond() and destroys the stream where node throws (node:http2: validate the server stream :status like node #43453, node:http2: prepare the final response headers like node #43526), options.endStream is honored where node ignores it (node:http2: ignore request() options in respond(), like node #43478), onError receives header errors, and the http2.server.stream.finish diagnostics channel is published.
stream.end() and stream.write() after a response that has ended. They differ from node in the same way after a plain respond().
When the first read of the file starts. Node starts it inside respondWithFD(). Here the read stream starts it later, as on main. A pipe like node's startFilePipe does that, and it is written: one commit on branch robobun/ee8d3317/http2-file-pipe-backup, on an older head of this PR. It is not proposed yet. It replaces the read stream of every file response, so it needs a maintainer's decision first.

Other open PRs on these lines. Whichever lands second needs a rebase.

node:http2: do not call respond() when a file response fails before the headers are sent #43463 sends the headers inside respondWithFD() and guards the two respond() calls (main has that guard now). This PR covers its rows and has its fixture cases, so it can be closed when this one lands.
node:http2: check fd in respondWithFD() like node, after the stream state and the options #43550 and node:http2: send RST_STREAM when a server stream is reset #33380 add the closed-stream check to both methods. node:http2: check fd in respondWithFD() like node, after the stream state and the options #43550 also reorders the argument checks of respondWithFD().
node:http2: throw getUnpackedSettings/respondWithFD ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE through the shared error machinery #38644 rewrites the last lines of respondWithFD() and still uses the FileHandle import that this PR removes as dead.
node:http2: validate the server stream :status like node #43453, node:http2: prepare the final response headers like node #43526, node:http2: ignore request() options in respond(), like node #43478 and node:http2: validate the headers and options arguments like node #43491 touch the preambles of both methods or the options that reach respond().
A trial merge with node:http2: fail a dropped write with ECANCELED, keep no write callback in native #44881 and with node:http2: do not send a request that close(code) reset while it waited for a stream slot #45279 is clean.

Self-review: 8 concerns raised, 7 addressed. A review of this PR with a file pipe on top asked first to split the two, so the pipe is not in this PR.

Addressed: the fix that keeps the server alive had no test (10 fixture cases now tear the stream down right after the call). Nothing pinned the descriptor close on a zero-length respondWithFile(), the session check, or the guards of doSendFD. The Math.trunc lines had no comment and no test. respondWithFile() kept three rules of main where respondWithFD() moved to node's. The read stream started a read after destroy() had returned. The range that a statCheck leaves was coerced after the headers. The test that spawns a server had no longer timeout for debug builds.
In part: tests that run on macOS too. The test for reads after destroy() runs on every platform now. The tests that count descriptors through /proc/self/fd stay Linux-only, because a macOS arm could not be run here.
The review measured the request rate of the earlier revision (0.49 of main for respondWithFD(fd)) and asked to state it. The fstat after the headers removes it instead.
From the review bots after that push: a file of size 0 that has content got an empty body (fixed, with three fixture cases). The two timeouts for debug builds are kept, with the reason in the thread. A pipe with the default offset was reset after the headers where main streamed it (fixed: it is read from its position again). The fixture left its directory behind when a run ended early (fixed: the test makes the directory).

Tests run. Debug build of the merged branch: the 12 file response tests of test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js (10 of this PR and the 2 of main) and the 22 files under test/js/node/test/{parallel,sequential} that call respondWithFile or respondWithFD pass. In the whole file, 411 tests pass and 18 time out. All 18 are in Client Basics and DATA payload survives ..., which this PR does not touch and which time out on debug builds of main too. Before the merge, on a release build: the whole file 20 times and the file response tests 40 times, with one Client Basics timeout (1 of 30 runs on a release build of main).

no test proof · iteration 5 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js

…turns respondWithFD() always went through fs.fstat(), so headersSent stayed false until the callback ran. A respond() in between did not throw, and the file response then never sent END_STREAM. Without a statCheck the response now starts synchronously and nothing stats the descriptor, like node's processRespondWithFD. File responses read at options.offset (default 0) instead of the descriptor's current position, so one descriptor can serve many responses. An fstat error destroys the stream with that error, like node's doSendFD.

… own fd ownership respondWithFD() with a statCheck now runs node's doSendFD instead of respondWithFile's fstat callback: no content-length, no regular-file check, statCheck gets { offset, length } and what it leaves there is what gets read. processRespondWithFD takes ownsFd as a parameter and the per-stream kOwnsFd flag is gone, so respondWithFile() closes the file it opened even when a later respondWithFD() on the same stream responds first. A descriptor or range that fs.createReadStream rejects resets the stream like a failed read, a zero-length response waits a tick so a 'wantTrailers' listener added after the call is seen, respondWithFD() throws on a closed stream, and respondWithFile() of a directory no longer sends 200 first.

coderabbitai · 2026-09-19T20:29:46Z

Walkthrough

The HTTP/2 implementation now handles descriptor ownership explicitly. respondWithFD() preserves caller-owned descriptors, while respondWithFile() closes descriptors it opens. The tests cover ranges, validation, errors, trailers, stream state, and descriptor lifetime.

Changes

HTTP/2 file descriptor handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Explicit descriptor ownership and cleanup `src/js/node/http2.ts`	Descriptor ownership is passed through the send paths. Error, cancellation, and response-race paths close internally opened descriptors.
FD and file response processing `src/js/node/http2.ts`	File responses normalize offsets and lengths, handle zero-length and non-regular inputs, and use explicit read-stream bounds. `respondWithFD()` calls `fstat` only when `statCheck` is supplied and rejects closed, destroyed, or detached streams.
Response behavior and descriptor lifetime tests `test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js`	Tests cover response timing, ranges, `statCheck`, invalid descriptors, trailers, closed streams, directory failures, response races, and descriptor cleanup.

Suggested reviewers: cirospaciari

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a2f87

Requests for an empty file response can receive the full file instead. This narrow compatibility issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

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robobun · 2026-09-19T20:37:09Z

Status: the fix is in this PR (#43564), at d65a889 (main merged in). It needs a maintainer review.

How I reproduced it: in a 'stream' handler of a node:http2 server, on a build of main (2a5cbbc) and on node v26.3.0.

st.respondWithFD(fd); st.respond({ ":status": 201 }): node throws ERR_HTTP2_HEADERS_SENT, and the client gets 200 and the file. main does not throw. The client gets 201 and then waits forever.
One descriptor for every respondWithFD(fd) response: node sends the file each time. main sends it once, then 200 with an empty body.

main fixed the two process exits that this comment listed before (#46021, #46270). They are not part of this PR any more.

Tests: test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js runs node-http2-respond-file.fixture.mjs (101 calls on Linux) under bun and under node v26, against one expected output. With the http2.ts of main, 5 of the 9 new tests fail on Linux. All of them pass on this branch.

claude

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two things this diff removes: the instanceof FileHandle unwrap in respondWithFD() was dead (the typeof fd.fd === "number" unwrap at the top of the method already runs first), and dropping the idempotency guard from closeWritableForFileResponse is safe because a second processRespondWithFD on one stream hits respond()'s ERR_HTTP2_HEADERS_SENT throw and takes the catch path before the writable side is touched.

Extended reasoning...

Findings were reported inline, so this note only records what else was examined. The removed FileHandle import/unwrap in src/js/node/http2.ts is redundant with the existing fd.fd unwrap at the start of respondWithFD() (line ~3419), so FileHandle inputs still reach fs.fstat/createReadStream as a plain number. The kFileResponseFinal idempotency guard removal was checked against a double-entry scenario (respondWithFile then respondWithFD, or two respondWithFD calls): processRespondWithFD calls this.respond() first, which throws ERR_HTTP2_HEADERS_SENT (line ~3555) on the second entry, so closeWritableForFileResponse and _final.bind are never reached twice on one stream.

robobun · 2026-09-19T20:48:27Z

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…e stream HEADERS on a stream that statCheck closed were a connection error for the client: the next request on the session failed. doSendFD and doSendFileFD now return after statCheck when the stream is closed or destroyed, the same way they do when statCheck sent another response.

claude

Beyond the inline finding, I also checked the removed FileHandle import: respondWithFD still unwraps fd.fd by duck-typing at src/js/node/http2.ts:3428 before anything else runs, so FileHandle callers are unaffected and the import was dead. The new destroyed || closed recheck after statCheck is present in both doSendFD and doSendFileFD, so the two sibling paths agree on that guard.

Extended reasoning...

The inline finding on the oversized-length range at http2.ts:3130 stands on its own. Two other things were examined and ruled out from the diff: the deleted require("node:fs/promises").$data.FileHandle import is dead because the fd argument is already unwrapped via typeof fd.fd === "number" at the top of respondWithFD (line 3428), so no FileHandle acceptance was lost; and the latest commit adds this.destroyed || this.closed after the statCheck call in both doSendFD and doSendFileFD, so a statCheck that closes the stream no longer falls through to processRespondWithFD on either path. The earlier inline notes about doSendFileFD passing options rather than statOptions to statCheck and the negative content-length for an offset past EOF are unchanged by this push and remain as previously posted.

Still open from earlier reviews (2):

Unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.

claude

Code review found no new issues

No new issues were found in this update; 3 findings from earlier reviews are still open above.

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🔴 src/js/node/http2.ts:3119 — Callers of respondWithFD(fd, h, { offset, length }) with a large length such as Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER meaning "to EOF…
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…integer respondWithFD(fd, {}, { offset: 3, length: Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER }) made an end that fs.createReadStream rejects, so the stream was reset after the headers. Node reads to EOF for any length past the end of the file.

claude

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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

🟣 src/js/node/http2.ts — pre-existing: a server that passes :status as a string ("204", "205", "304") to respondWithFD() or respondWithFile() gets no error on bun, while node throws ERR_HTTP2_PAYLOAD_FORBIDDEN. The check at http2.ts:3448-3457 compares the raw header value with === against numeric constants, so a string status never matches. respond() later coerces it (http2.ts:3636), forces endStream, and the file is then read and dropped chunk by chunk. Fix: coerce the status before the payload check in both preambles, as node does with headers[HTTP2_HEADER_STATUS] |= 0, so the string and number forms of 204/205/304 both throw. Same pattern at 2 sites (http2.ts:3389, http2.ts:3448).

Extended reasoning...

Handler runs stream.respondWithFD(fd, { ":status": "304" }) or stream.respondWithFile(path, { ":status": "304" }). Header objects with string values are common when a server forwards or builds headers generically.
http2.ts:3448 reads statusCode = headers[HTTP2_HEADER_STATUS], which is the string "304".
http2.ts:3452-3455 test statusCode === HTTP_STATUS_NO_CONTENT etc.; every comparison is false for a string, so no ERR_HTTP2_PAYLOAD_FORBIDDEN is thrown.
http2.ts:3474 calls processRespondWithFD synchronously; http2.ts:3083 calls respond().
http2.ts:3636 does headers[HTTP2_HEADER_STATUS] |= 0, giving 304; http2.ts:3649-3665 then force endStream, send HEADERS with END_STREAM and call this.end() at 3697, which runs the real _final.
Back in processRespondWithFD, http2.ts:3098 rebinds _final and ends the writable again (a no-op), then http2.ts:3114-3156 opens the read stream and pipes the whole file into the sink; each chunk hits the stream.closed guard at 3131 or the native can_send_data() check (h2_frame_parser.rs:5887) and is discarded.
Result: the peer gets a bodiless 304, the file…

Verification: pre-existing. Trigger: a handler calls stream.respondWithFD(fd, { ":status": "304" }) (or "204"/"205"), or respondWithFile(path, { ":status": "304" }) — a string status, which node accepts and coerces. Mechanism verified in /home/claude/bun/src/js/node/http2.ts: respondWithFD reads const statusCode = headers[HTTP2_HEADER_STATUS]; at line 3448 with no coercion, then tests…

robobun · 2026-09-19T22:06:15Z

About the string :status finding ("204", "205", "304" pass the payload check): #43526 already covers it. It adds node's prepareResponseHeadersObject to the start of respondWithFile() and respondWithFD(), so statusCode is the coerced number before the ERR_HTTP2_PAYLOAD_FORBIDDEN check. This PR does not change how the two methods read :status, so I did not copy that change here.

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🟠 Major · Close the owned descriptor when statCheck throws. · http2.ts:3037-3042

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Close the owned descriptor when statCheck throws.

If options.statCheck throws, doSendFileFD() exits before the following tryClose(fd) branch. The descriptor is not transferred to processRespondWithFD(), so its later autoClose handling cannot run. Catch the callback error, call tryClose(fd), and rethrow it. If the process continues, repeated requests can exhaust file descriptors.
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In `@src/js/node/http2.ts` around lines 3037 - 3042, Update doSendFileFD so
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…rows The throw left doSendFileFD before any of its tryClose(fd) calls, so a process that survives the uncaught exception leaked one descriptor per request.

robobun · 2026-09-19T23:18:07Z

About the finding that doSendFileFD leaks the descriptor when statCheck throws: fixed in 19e8183. The statCheck call is now in a try. On a throw, doSendFileFD closes the descriptor that respondWithFile() opened and throws the same error again, so the uncaught exception is unchanged.

A repro with an uncaughtException handler and three requests left 3 descriptors open on the file with node v26.3.0, bun 1.4.3 and this branch before the change. The new test runs that repro in a child process and expects 0.

doSendFD does not need the same change. The descriptor there belongs to the caller of respondWithFD().

claude

I re-reviewed the two commits pushed since my last pass and found no new bugs; because this is a behavioral rework of a node: compat path with several other open PRs on the same lines, a human look before merging is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

The end clamp in processRespondWithFD (src/js/node/http2.ts:3122): fs.createReadStream validates end via validateInteger(end, "end", 0) with the default MAX_SAFE_INTEGER ceiling, so the clamped value is accepted and reads to EOF.
The new try/catch around statCheck in doSendFileFD (http2.ts:3037-3043): checked the sibling doSendFD for the same gap — it never owns the descriptor, so a throwing statCheck there leaks nothing.
The createReadStream catch at http2.ts:3125: ReadStream throws from validateInt32(fd)/validateInteger(start|end) before touching the descriptor, so tryClose(fd) there cannot double-close an owned fd.
Non-idempotent closeWritableForFileResponse: only reachable after respond() succeeds, which sets headersSent and makes every later entry throw ERR_HTTP2_HEADERS_SENT first.

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Overview

The PR splits the single doSendFileFD in src/js/node/http2.ts into doSendFD (respondWithFD with a statCheck), doSendFileFD (respondWithFile, always owns the fd), and a shared processRespondWithFD(options, fd, headers, offset, length, ownsFd) that mirrors node's processRespondWithFD + startFilePipe. respondWithFD() without a statCheck now initiates the response synchronously and no longer calls fstat; the kOwnsFd per-stream flag becomes an explicit parameter; the dead FileHandle import is removed (the duck-typed fd.fd unwrap at the top of respondWithFD still handles FileHandles). The test file adds ~430 lines covering the sync-headers contract, an offset/length matrix with and without statCheck, bad/directory descriptors, zero-length + wantTrailers, closed-stream throws, statCheck closing the stream, and two Linux-only /proc/self/fd descriptor-leak checks.

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No auth, crypto, or credential paths are touched. The main hazard class here is descriptor lifetime: an fd opened by respondWithFile must be closed exactly once on every exit, and a caller-owned fd from respondWithFD must never be closed. I traced every exit of doSendFileFD and processRespondWithFD with ownsFd true and each either hands the fd to a ReadStream with autoClose: true or calls tryClose(fd) exactly once; the new createReadStream catch is safe because ReadStream's constructor validates fd/start/end before any fd handling. Range math is truncated with Math.trunc(x) || 0 before use, and the end value is clamped so unsafe integers cannot reach validateInteger.

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This deserves a human maintainer's look rather than an automated approval. It is a ~166-line semantic rework of user-facing node-compat behavior (sync vs. async header emission, error delivery changing from respond-then-reset to destroy(err), length: 0 now meaning an empty body for respondWithFD, content-length no longer added by respondWithFD). The PR description itself lists at least eight other open PRs that touch the same functions (#43463, #43550, #33380, #41516, #38644, #43453, #43526, #43478, #43491), so whichever lands second needs a rebase and someone coordinating these should decide ordering. Node's doSendFD uses | 0 on offset/length where this port uses Math.trunc; that only diverges for values above 2^31 and the port's behavior is the more sensible one, but it is a deliberate deviation a maintainer may want to be aware of.

Other factors

All inline findings from earlier runs were resolved by the PR author; the commits pushed since (8d4412a1, 19e8183e) do contain the corresponding code changes (the end clamp with a test row, and the statCheck try/catch with a spawned-process descriptor-count test), so I judged those threads addressed from the code rather than from the resolution metadata. The bug hunt exited on a dry streak with no findings. I did not run a debug build in this session; the PR reports the full http2 suite and all 256 test-http2-* node tests passing on the debug build, which a human reviewer can confirm via CI.

robobun · 2026-09-20T07:39:41Z

A note on the overlap with #43587.

After this PR, processRespondWithFD still calls options.onError when respond() rejects the headers, and it does so for respondWithFD() too. Node v26.3.0 never reads onError in respondWithFD(). The test in #43587 fails on this head at its rows with rejected headers.

If this PR lands first, I will cut #43587 down to that one condition (call onError only when ownsFd) plus its test. A header error in respondWithFile() must keep its onError call for now. respond() still rejects header values that Node accepts, for example undefined, and #41614 changes that. The notes of #43587 have the repro.

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robobun · 2026-09-28T20:58:24Z

Merged main (a4f1429) into the branch in a2f8756. The branch was 138 commits behind and had one conflict.

The conflict was in closeWritableForFileResponse (src/js/node/http2.ts). Typecheck the built-in modules (src/js) in CI #43649 changed stream._final = null to (stream as { _final: unknown })._final = null for the typecheck. This PR removed the if (final === undefined) guard, because the function has one caller now. The merged function has this PR's body and the cast of Typecheck the built-in modules (src/js) in CI #43649.
One more line changed, types only: this.destroy(err) in processRespondWithFD is now this.destroy(err as Error). The function declares this: ServerHttp2Stream, so the typecheck that Typecheck the built-in modules (src/js) in CI #43649 added to CI rejected the unknown of the catch. tsc --noEmit -p src/js/tsconfig.json reports no error in http2.ts.
The tests that main added to node-http2.test.js (node:http2: check session options at every entry point like node #43584, Typecheck the built-in modules (src/js) in CI #43649, node:http: the server follows Node (request body, framing, response finish, lifecycle) #43557) merged with no conflict.

Run on the debug build of a2f8756 (Linux x64, ASAN):

test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js: 402 pass, 6 skip, 0 fail.
All 256 test/js/node/test/parallel/test-http2-*.js: pass. test-http2-forget-closed-streams.js needs 91 s and passes alone.
The 22 node tests that call respondWithFile or respondWithFD: pass.
One descriptor served 20 times (second repro in the status comment): 20 whole responses in 6 of 6 cells. bun 1.4.3 gives 1 whole and 19 empty in 6 of 6.

The machine had a load average above 600 during these runs, so I ran the test file with --timeout 60000.

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…node respondWithFD() without a length no longer reads through 64 KiB buffers. The size of a regular file sizes the read stream: from the stat that statCheck got, or from an fstat after the headers are out. The read stream of a file response starts no read once the stream is destroyed or closed. respondWithFile() follows node in three more places: it throws on a closed stream, `length: 0` sends an empty body, and statCheck gets two arguments. The range that a statCheck leaves is coerced before a header is sent. The tests run one fixture under bun and under node v26. They compare both with one expected output and list the cases where node differs.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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A file in /proc is a regular file of size 0 that has content. The size from fstat only sizes the read buffer, so a size of 0 now means a read to EOF, as on node. The fixture gets three cases with a /proc file on Linux. On Windows the test expects node's own lines for the two cases with a negative offset other than -1: node fails that read there.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

The fixture made its own temporary directory and removed it only when every case had run. A run that ended early left it behind. The test now makes the directory with tempDir and passes its path to the fixture.

respondWithFD() reads at offset 0 by default. A pipe, a socket or a tty has no offset, so that read fails with ESPIPE, and the stream was reset after the headers. main read such a descriptor from its position. When the first read at offset 0 fails with ESPIPE, the file is now read again from its position. Node fails here. The fixture has five cases with a FIFO on Linux and keeps node's lines for the three that differ.

claude

I reviewed the latest push and found no new bugs; since this is a ~1000-line port of node's file-response paths with several deliberate divergences from node, a maintainer's look is still worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

The new ESPIPE retry in pipeFile (src/js/node/http2.ts:3246-3250): the first read stream is destroyed without emitting end, so the sink is not finished early; the retry pipes a fresh stream into a fresh sink and runs only when ownsFd is false, so no descriptor is closed twice.
respondWithFD with a non-integer fd and no statCheck now resets after :status 200 instead of throwing synchronously — ruled out as a blocker because node also lets a non-integer fd through to the read path.
The deliberate divergences (Math.trunc vs node's | 0, reading a pipe from its position, no reset code when statCheck closes the stream) are each commented at the site and pinned by the fixture; whether they are the desired policy is a judgment call for a maintainer.

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The change rewrites ServerHttp2Stream#respondWithFD and #respondWithFile in src/js/node/http2.ts to follow node's doSendFD / doSendFileFD / processRespondWithFD / startFilePipe structure, plus a 387-line multi-case fixture and ~500 lines of tests in test/js/node/http2. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; the sensitive parts are fd ownership (who closes which descriptor on each error path) and byte-range coercion from user options. The hunt ran dry with no findings, and the newest commit adds the ESPIPE fallback that the prior review's open finding asked for. Deferring rather than approving because of the size, the node-compat semantics with intentional divergences, and the number of error-path behaviors changed in one PR.

…2-respond-with-fd-sync Conflicts in src/js/node/http2.ts and test/js/node/http2/node-http2.test.js. main guards the two respond() calls in doSendFileFD, ends an empty range without a read, and resets the stream for an offset or a length that is not valid. This branch keeps its own doSendFD, doSendFileFD and pipeFile, and takes the validation of main into doSendFileFD, which serves respondWithFile() only here. The test of main for an empty range expected content-length: 0 from respondWithFD(). It sends the headers before anything reads the descriptor now, so that case expects no content-length.

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