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a dispose-refusal test in worktree.test.ts set process.exitCode = 1 through the code path it was exercising and never restored it. serially, some later test happened to reset exitCode, so the run exited 0 by luck. under --shard, a shard that ends on this test exits 1 with no failing test to explain why.

what changed

  • worktree.test.ts: the running-run dispose refusal test now captures process.exitCode before the call, asserts it's 1, and restores it with originalExitCode ?? 0 in the same finally that already restores console.log (a bare originalExitCode restore is a no-op in a fresh process, since Bun ignores assigning undefined)
  • test-setup.ts: the RT-302 HOME guard and the new exitCode guard share one afterEach, not two, because Bun stops running a setup file's afterEach hooks at the first throw, so two separate hooks would only ever report whichever is registered first and leave the other guard's state unrepaired for a test that broke both. The shared afterEach collects every problem it finds and throws one error naming all of them, then resets both so the leak can't cascade into the rest of the shard
  • lib/tests/exitcode-guard.test.ts + fixtures: pins the guard's "names the offending test, then repairs it" behavior the way home-guard.test.ts pins the HOME guard, by asserting a child bun test process's output, plus a fixture that breaks both HOME and exitCode in one test and asserts the shared afterEach blames that test, not the next one
  • three more real leaks the new guard surfaced once it was live: skills-init.test.ts and release-preflight.test.ts were already trying to reset with process.exitCode = undefined (the same bun quirk, ineffective), and compile-native.e2e.test.ts had no reset at all. all three now reset to 0, and the two compile-native tests that set exitCode = 1 now assert that before the shared afterEach clears it

verification

  • bun test commands/tests/worktree.test.ts -t "running-run dispose refusal": exit 0 (RED confirmed first with originalExitCode alone, per review: exits 1 in isolation because exitCode is undefined in a fresh process)
  • bun test lib/tests/exitcode-guard.test.ts lib/tests/home-guard.test.ts: exit 0 (RED confirmed first: without the guard, or with the two guards kept separate, the offending test's leak gets blamed on the next test instead of itself)
  • bunx tsc --noEmit: clean
  • bun test lib commands packages scripts (full serial): 10095 pass, 3 skip, 0 fail, exit 0
  • all six shards of bun test lib commands packages scripts --shard=i/6 exit 0 with 0 fail: 1/6 (1961 pass), 2/6 (1404 pass), 3/6 (1770 pass), 4/6 (1581 pass), 5/6 (1590 pass, 2 skip), 6/6 (1789 pass, 1 skip); pass+skip totals match the full serial run exactly

follow-up (parked, not in this PR)

  • an afterAll leak after the last test of a shard still exits 1 silently: no test runs afterward for the guard to attach the failure to. Not implemented here; noted for a later ticket.

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m4ttheweric and others added 3 commits September 25, 2026 13:46
The running-run dispose refusal test set process.exitCode = 1 via the
code path under test and never restored it, leaking into whatever test
happens to run next in the same shard.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
A test that sets process.exitCode to assert a CLI exit path and never
restores it leaks into every later test in the same process, which is
harmless serially (some later test resets it) but exits a sharded run
with no failing test to explain why.

Adds a global afterEach next to the HOME guard: it fails the leaking
test by name and resets exitCode so the leak cannot cascade into the
rest of the shard. Bun's process.exitCode setter ignores undefined, so
the reset assigns 0.

Pins the "names the offending test" behavior the way home-guard.test.ts
pins the HOME guard: a fixture run in a child bun test process, its
output asserted against.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
skills-init.test.ts, compile-native.e2e.test.ts and
release-preflight.test.ts each left process.exitCode set after a
test that exercised a CLI exit path, the same bug the worktree test
had, only masked in the serial suite by later tests resetting it.
Two already tried to reset with process.exitCode = undefined, which
Bun ignores once the value is truthy; only 0 actually clears it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The test setup now checks and clears leaked truthy process.exitCode values around tests. Regression tests cover leaks from tests and afterAll. Several test suites also reset or restore process.exitCode.

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Test exit-code isolation

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Exit-code guard and regression coverage
test-setup.ts, lib/__tests__/fixtures/exitcode-guard-first-file.ts, lib/__tests__/exitcode-guard.test.ts
The test setup checks for inherited exit codes before each test and checks for remaining truthy codes afterward. Subprocess tests cover values left by a test and by afterAll.
Exit-code cleanup in test suites
commands/__tests__/*, lib/skills/__tests__/compile-native.e2e.test.ts
Test helpers and cleanup hooks reset process.exitCode to 0 or restore its saved value.

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The worktree test can fail in the normal test run, while some exit-code leaks remain undetected or unattributed. Fix the restoration and guard gaps before merging.

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In `@commands/__tests__/release-preflight.test.ts`:
- Line 57: Remove the suite-level process.exitCode resets at
commands/__tests__/release-preflight.test.ts:57-57,
commands/__tests__/skills-init.test.ts:82-82, and
lib/skills/__tests__/compile-native.e2e.test.ts:24-24 so the preload guard can
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set it.

In `@commands/__tests__/worktree.test.ts`:
- Line 299: Update the exit-code restoration in the test cleanup to assign 0
when originalExitCode is undefined, while preserving any saved numeric exit
code.

In `@test-setup.ts`:
- Around line 112-124: Add a check to the preload global afterAll using
repairExitCode, and throw an error if it returns a problem so process.exitCode
leaks from the final afterAll are reported and reset. Preserve the existing
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beforeEach(() => {
exitCodeBrokenBeforeTest = repairExitCode();
});
afterEach(() => {
const inherited = exitCodeBrokenBeforeTest;
exitCodeBrokenBeforeTest = null;
const problem = repairExitCode();
if (problem) throw new Error(`After this test: process.exitCode was left at ${JSON.stringify(problem)}. Restore it (capture before the call, restore in this test's own afterEach or a finally).`);
if (inherited) {
throw new Error(`process.exitCode was already ${JSON.stringify(inherited)} when this test started (an afterAll, or an afterEach that threw, earlier).`);
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<excerpt>Describes are ... test-ordering ... ``` Before, this would print ``` $&gt; bun-before test test-ordering ✓ scope &gt; two ✓ one ✓ three ``` Now, this will print ``` $&gt; bun-after test test-ordering ✓ one ✓ scope &gt; two ✓ three ``` ## Preload hooks Previously, beforeAll in a preload ran before the first file and afterAll ran after the last file. Now, beforeAll will run at the start of each file and afterAll will run at the end of each file. This behaviour matches Jest and Vitest. ```ts // preload.ts beforeAll(() =&gt; console.log(&quot;preload: beforeAll&quot;)); afterAll(() =&gt; console.log(&quot;preload: afterAll&quot;)); ``` ```ts // preload-ordering-1.test.ts test(&quot;demonstration file 1&quot;, () =&gt; {}); ``` ```ts // preload-ordering-2.test.ts test(&quot;demonstration file 2&quot;, () =&gt; {}); ``` ``` $&gt; bun-before test --preload=./preload preload-ordering preload-ordering-1.test.ts: preload: beforeAll ✓ demonstration file 1 preload-ordering-2.test.ts: ✓ demonstration file 2 preload: afterAll ``` ``` $&gt; bun-after test --preload=./preload preload-ordering preload-ordering-1.test.ts: preload: beforeAll ✓ demonstration file 1 preload: afterAll preload-ordering-2.test.ts: preload: beforeAll ✓ demonstration file 2 preload: afterAll ``` ## Describe failures Current behaviour is that when an error is thrown inside a describe callback, none of the tests declared there will run. Now, describes declared inside will also not run. The new behaviour matches the behaviour of Jest and Vitest. ```ts // describe-failures.test.ts describe(&quot;erroring describe&quot;, () =&gt; { test(&quot;this test does not run because its describe failed&quot;, () =&gt; { expect(true).toBe(true); }); describe(&quot;inner describe&quot;, () =&gt; { console.log(&quot;does the inner describe callback get called?&quot;); test(&quot;does the inner test run?&quot;, () =&gt; { expect(true).toBe(true); }); }); throw new Error(&quot;uh oh!&quot;); }); ``` Before, the inner describe callback would be called and the inner test would run, although the outer test would not: ``` $&gt; bun-before test describe- ... describe ... the inner describe callback get called ... ``` ... Ran ... [1011.00 ... $&gt; bun-after test hook-timeouts ✗ my test [501.15ms] ... a beforeEach/afterEach hook timed ... for this test. ``` ## Hook execution order beforeAll will now execute before the tests in the scope, rather than immediately when it is called. ```ts describe(&quot;d1&quot;, () =&gt; { beforeAll(() =&gt; { console.log(&quot;&lt;d1&gt;&quot;); }); test(&quot;test&quot;, () =&gt; { console.log(&quot; test&quot;); }); afterAll(() =&gt; { console.log(&quot;&lt;/d1&gt;&quot;); }); }); describe(&quot;d2&quot;, () =&gt; { beforeAll(() =&gt; { console.log(&quot;&lt;d2&gt;&quot;); }); test(&quot;test&quot;, () =&gt; { console.log(&quot; test&quot;); }); afterAll(() =&gt; { console.log(&quot;&lt;/d2&gt;&quot;); }); }); ``` ``` $&gt; bun-before test ./beforeall-ordering.test.ts &lt;d1&gt; &lt;d2&gt; test &lt;/d1&gt; test &lt;/d2&gt; $&gt; bun-after test ./beforeall-ordering.test.ts &lt;d1&gt; test &lt;/d1&gt; &lt;d2&gt; test &lt;/d2&gt; ``` ## test inside test test() inside test() now errors rather than silently failing. Support for this may be added in the future. ```ts test(&quot;outer&quot;, () =&gt; { console.log(&quot;outer&quot;); test(&quot;inner&quot;, () =&gt; { console.log(&quot;inner&quot;); }); }); ``` ``` $&gt; bun-before test outer ✓ outer [0.06ms] 1 pass 0 fail Ran 1 test across 1 file. [8.00ms] $&gt; bun-after test outer 1 | test(&quot;outer&quot;, () =&gt; { 2 | console.log(&quot;outer&quot;); 3 | test(&quot;inner&quot;, () =&gt; { ^ error: Cannot call test() inside a test. Call it inside describe() instead. ✗ outer [0.71ms] 0 pass 1 fail ``` ## afterAll inside test afterAll inside a test is no longer allowed ```ts test(&quot;test 1&quot;, () =&gt; { afterAll(() =&gt; console.log(&quot;afterAll&quot;)); console.log(&quot;test 1&quot;); }); t…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>Bun 1.4 | Bun Blog</title>
<location>https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4</location>
<excerpt>### `bun run --parallel` v1.3.9 v1.4 ... (or ` ... filter`), and `prebuild`/`postbuild` hooks are grouped with ... main script so dependency order is preserved. `--sequential` runs scripts one at a time with the same prefixed output and filtering</excerpt>
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<location>GitHub issue 23066 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)</location>
<excerpt>Bun v1.2.23, global beforeAll/afterAll is called once per test file, rather than only once for all tests. · Issue `#23066` · oven-sh/bun · GitHub Bun v1.2.23, global beforeAll/afterAll is called once per test file, rather than only once for all tests. xuxucode on Sep 29, 2025 ### What version of Bun is running? 1.2.23 ### What platform is your computer? Darwin 23.3.0 arm64 arm ### What steps can reproduce the bug? bunfig.toml: ``` [test] preload = [&quot;./test/setup.ts&quot;] ``` .test/setup.ts ``` import { afterAll, beforeAll } from &`#39`;bun:test&`#39`; beforeAll(async () =&gt; { console.log(&`#39`;beforeAll&`#39`;) }) afterAll(async () =&gt; { console.log(&`#39`;afterAll&`#39`;) }) ``` ### What is the expected behavior? Only once for all tests like Bun 1.2.22. ### What do you see instead? Global beforeAll and afterAll are called multiple times, once per test file. ### Additional information No response None yet ### Development No branches or pull requests</excerpt>
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Citations:

- 1: https://bun.com/docs/test/lifecycle
- 2: https://bun.com/docs/test/configuration
- 3: GitHub pull request 22534 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 4: https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.4
- 5: GitHub issue 23066 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: GitHub issue 4035 in oven-sh/bun (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

Check process.exitCode in the preload afterAll.

When the final test file's afterAll sets process.exitCode, the new afterEach guard has already run. The existing preload afterAll only schedules cleanup, so the run can exit nonzero without reporting the leaking hook. Check and reset the value at the global teardown boundary.

Suggested fix
 afterAll(() => {
   spawn("sh", ["-c", 'chmod -R u+w "$@" 2>/dev/null; exec rm -rf "$@"', "sh", runTmp, home, socketDir], {
     detached: true,
     stdio: "ignore",
   }).unref();
+  const problem = repairExitCode();
+  if (problem) {
+    throw new Error(`After all tests: process.exitCode was left at ${JSON.stringify(problem)}. Restore it (capture before the call, restore in the hook's own finally).`);
+  }
 });
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In `@test-setup.ts` around lines 112 - 124, Add a check to the preload global
afterAll using repairExitCode, and throw an error if it returns a problem so
process.exitCode leaks from the final afterAll are reported and reset. Preserve
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m4ttheweric and others added 2 commits September 25, 2026 14:36
process.exitCode = originalExitCode is a no-op in a fresh process (Bun
ignores assigning undefined once the value is truthy), so the dispose
refusal test's own restore left the leak in place; it only passed
because an earlier test in the file set exitCode = 0 first. Also pins
process.exitCode at the value the code path under test is asserted to
have set, immediately before the reset that would otherwise hide it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bun runs a setup file's afterEach hooks in registration order and
stops at the first throw, so the HOME guard and the exitCode guard as
two separate afterEach hooks only ever reported whichever ran first: a
test that broke both had its exitCode leak silently blamed on the next
test instead of itself. Merges them into one afterEach that repairs
and reports both, joining every problem it finds into a single error.

Extends exitcode-guard.test.ts with a fixture that breaks both HOME
and exitCode in one test and asserts the shared afterEach fails that
test, not the next one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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m4ttheweric merged commit d00a964 into main Sep 25, 2026
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m4ttheweric deleted the rt-309-exitcode-guard branch September 25, 2026 19:46
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