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Problem

• Four natives use putDirect() on an unchecked this. A frozen object gains a property, a Proxy sees no trap, a WebAssembly GC reference aborts: release panic(main thread): abort() called, debug ASSERTION FAILED: WebAssemblyGCStructure should not do transition.
• Sites: setProcessPpid, jsRequireCacheSetter, jsRequireExtensionsSetter, JSStringDecoderConstructor::call, jsEventEmitterCastFast.

Fix

• process.ppid becomes a setterless CustomValue, so JSC's own [[Set]] assigns.
• The require setters, StringDecoder.call(obj) and the assigning emitter methods call Bun::defineOwnDataProperty(): a direct store for a plain extensible object, else defineOwnProperty(). The reading emitter methods store nothing.
• Verified: tests in 5 files (Notes). 35 fail without the fix.
• Self-reviewed: 4 changes asked for, 4 made (Notes).

Background

• putDirect() adds a property by Structure transition, with no hook. defineOwnProperty() asks the object.
• A CustomAccessor setter gets the receiver. A setterless CustomValue assigns like a data property.
• A foreign this is not a native emitter. It keeps its listeners in one, at this._events.
• Considered CustomValue for require.cache too: its getter gets the holder, and needs the receiver to find a Bun.ModuleGraph (Bun.ModuleGraph: a context per graph for timers and I/O, per-graph CommonJS #42590).

Downsides

• The ppid descriptor loses get and set. After Object.seal(process) or Object.freeze(process), process.ppid no longer follows a reparent.
• require.cache = x on a frozen require throws in sloppy mode too. process.emit("error", e) after process.removeAllListeners() now reports e.
• Instructions per call: require.cache = x 166 to 532, StringDecoder.call(this) 486 to 521, emitter methods on a foreign this +6 to +26, of process -22 to -33. Binary text: +3,584 bytes.

Notes

Repro on 1.4.3-canary.1 and on main e375701, one line per site (bun x.cjs). Each line prints false and a new key: the frozen object is changed.

const show = (name, f) => { const o = Object.freeze({}); try { f(o); } catch (e) { console.log(name, e.name); } console.log(name, Object.isFrozen(o), Reflect.ownKeys(o)); };
show("ppid", o => Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "ppid").set.call(o, 7));
show("StringDecoder", o => require("string_decoder").StringDecoder.call(o, "utf8"));
show("listenerCount", o => process.listenerCount.call(o, "x"));
show("on", o => process.on.call(o, "x", () => {}));
for (const k of ["cache", "extensions"]) show(k, o => Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(Object.getPrototypeOf(require), k).set.call(o, 1));

The abort: pass a WebAssembly GC reference as the receiver of any of the calls above, or as the receiver of Reflect.set(process, "ppid", 7, ref).

const bytes = new Uint8Array([0,0x61,0x73,0x6d,1,0,0,0, 1,10,2, 0x5f,1,0x7f,1, 0x60,0,1,0x63,0, 3,2,1,1, 7,6,1,2,0x6d,0x6b,0,0, 10,7,1,5,0,0xfb,1,0,0x0b]);
const ref = new WebAssembly.Instance(new WebAssembly.Module(bytes)).exports.mk(); // (struct (field (mut i32)))
process.on.call(ref, "x", () => {}); // main: abort, exit code 134. After: TypeError

After this change, compared with Node.js v26.3.0:

call	Node.js	after
Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "ppid")	{ value, writable, enumerable, configurable }	same (was { get, set })
Object.create(process).ppid = 1	own data property on the receiver	same as before
the same on a frozen receiver	TypeError in strict mode, silent in sloppy mode	same
Reflect.set(process, "ppid", 1, frozen)	false	false
Reflect.set(process, "ppid", 1, proxy)	defineProperty trap	defineProperty trap
Object.seal(process); process.ppid = 1	the value is stored, process stays sealed	same (before: process was not sealed after it)
Object.freeze(process); process.ppid = 1	rejected	same (before: the value was stored and process was not frozen after it)
Object.seal(process) or Object.freeze(process), then a reparent	process.ppid follows the reparent	the value of the moment of the lock (before: follows)
Object.defineProperty(process, "ppid", { enumerable: false }), then a reparent	the old value	the old value (before: follows)
require.cache = x	the value is stored on that require function	same as before
the same on a frozen require	TypeError in strict mode, silent in sloppy mode	TypeError in the two modes, and from Reflect.set
StringDecoder.call(frozen), on.call(frozen, ...)	TypeError	TypeError
listenerCount.call(frozen, "x")	0, no write	0, no write
a WebAssembly GC reference as the receiver	TypeError: WebAssembly objects are opaque	TypeError from the sites that define, false from Reflect.set(process, "ppid", ...), 0 from listenerCount

require.cache and require.extensions are own data properties of each require function in Node.js. Here they are accessors on the shared prototype of the require functions, and this change keeps their descriptors. jsRequireCacheGetter needs the receiver: for a require function of a Bun.ModuleGraph it returns the cache of that graph (test/js/bun/module-graph/). The getter of a CustomValue gets the object that holds the property, which is the shared prototype. A custom setter cannot see if the assignment is in strict mode, so the two setters throw in the two modes. extensions stays an accessor too, so that the two properties keep one shape.

The shape of ppid. The ppid getter does not read its receiver, so ppid can be a CustomValue. That shape equals Node.js on the descriptor, on each assignment row above and in util.inspect(process) (main prints ppid: [Getter/Setter]). Its cost is the read after Object.seal(process) or Object.freeze(process): JSC redefines each property, and for a CustomValue it stores the value that the getter gave at that moment. test/regression/issue/29169.test.ts has a test.todo for each of the two. The other shape is the accessor of main with a setter that calls Bun::defineOwnDataProperty(), as for require.cache. It keeps the read live and keeps the { get, set } descriptor, and it throws where Node.js is silent or returns false. It is a change of one table row and one setter, if a maintainer prefers it.

Unhandled "error" events. EventEmitter::fireEventListeners reported an "error" event with no listener only while the emitter held a receiver. The emitter holds the receiver of the last call that changed it, weakly, and removeAllListeners() clears it. So process.removeAllListeners(); process.emit("error", e) dropped e: exit code 0 and nothing printed. With the Proxy receivers of this PR the same happened after a collection of the Proxy that made the emitter, where main reports e. The guard was there to read the global object from the receiver. The report now always happens. Node.js throws e from emit(). Here e goes to the uncaught exception path, as before this PR.

Answers that differ from Node.js. The native emitter methods on a receiver that is not an emitter give these answers before and after this PR. Each test that pins one says so.

• A method that assigns defines only _events. Node.js defines _events and _eventsCount, and _maxListeners for setMaxListeners.
• once and prependOnceListener work on a receiver with no on method. Node.js throws a TypeError.
• listenerCount throws for a primitive receiver. Node.js returns 0.
• An object that inherits from process gets its own listeners. In Node.js it shares the listeners of process.
• An "error" event with no listener is reported as uncaught. In Node.js emit() throws it.

Cost per call. Instructions inside the host function, from its first instruction to its return, on release builds of main e375701 and of this branch. The count comes from ptrace(PTRACE_SINGLESTEP), because perf and valgrind are not available on the machine. Each row is calls 40 to 49 of a loop. The count is the same for the 10 calls, apart from the rows marked "lowest", where the call allocates. The row for Object.create(process) changes by 1 from run to run.

call	main	this PR
process.listenerCount("x")	120	87
process.emit("x", 1), no listener	224	200
process.emit("x", 1), one listener	610	588
process.on("x", f)	1,738	1,705
StringDecoder.call(this, "utf8"), this is a new plain object	486	521
listenerCount.call(o, "x"), o has an emitter in _events	314	320
emit("x", 1) on Object.create(process), one listener	775	790
on.call({}, "x", f), a new object for each call (lowest)	2,304	2,330
listenerCount.call(o, "x"), o has no _events	279	276
emit.call(o, "x", 1), o has no _events	382	286
listenerCount.call({}, "x"), a new object for each call (lowest on main)	906	276
require.cache = x, a new require function for each call	166	532

• The methods of process are cheaper because IDLOperation<JSEventEmitter>::call tests for a native emitter inline. On main each call goes through the out-of-line jsEventEmitterCastFast() first.
• The 35 instructions of StringDecoder.call(this) are the two tests before the direct store: a plain object, extensible, no own property of that name. The first push called defineOwnProperty() for every receiver.
• require.cache = x runs the setter one time for each require function, because the own property that it defines hides the accessor. A require function is not a plain object, so the setter calls JSFunction::defineOwnProperty().
• Size: size bun-profile gives 80,852,162 and 80,855,746 bytes of text. Data and bss are equal. The stripped binary grows by 4,096 bytes, one page.
• Nothing is added per process. ppid stays a row of processObjectTable, so Object.keys(process) keeps its order and the process object does no work for ppid when it is created. The table generator names a setter for each row that is not ReadOnly, so setProcessPpid is now a null constant.

Self-review. The review of the first push asked for the CustomValue shape and found two bugs in the code of that push. Later pushes removed the cost that the first two added for receivers that never hit the bug.

• A custom setter cannot see if the assignment is in strict mode. With createDataProperty() in the ppid setter, a frozen receiver threw in sloppy mode too, Reflect.set ended in an exception, and Object.seal(process); process.ppid = 1 threw. JSC's own [[Set]] has none of these. CustomValue fits ppid only: the require.cache getter needs the receiver (above).
• A reading method of the second push ran on a new emitter that it did not store. Nothing referenced that emitter during the call, and a collection inside the event name conversion freed it. A reading method now gets no emitter for such a this and answers as for no listeners: false, 0, [], the default of 10, this.
• process.emit.call(ref, "error", e) reported the unhandled error on thisObject->globalObject(), which is null for a WebAssembly GC reference. The report now goes to the global object of the emitter's context, or of the method when this has no emitter. An object from a node:vm context now reaches process.on("uncaughtException"), as in Node.js. On main the error is printed and the exit code is 1.
• About scope, not taken here: to fold fs.Stats: make the date accessors define the property like Object.defineProperty #42518 into this PR (it is in review on its own), and the process.env setters below.
• The review of the fourth push (the accessors of require.cache and require.extensions) asked for four changes. All are made: the report of an unhandled "error", the ppid line under Downsides with its test.todo, the list of the sites that this PR leaves, and a note at each emitter test that pins an answer that Node.js does not give. The review weighed the two shapes of ppid and kept the CustomValue.
• The same review named three follow-ups that are not in this PR: to forward the emitter methods for a receiver that is not a native emitter to node:events, an own cache property on each require function of a Bun.ModuleGraph, and a receiver sweep of all natives.

Emitter lifetime on main. After process.on.call(o, "x", f), the call process.listenerCount.call(o, { toString() { delete o._events; Bun.gc(true); return "x" } }) reads a freed emitter. A release build with ASAN and Malloc=1 reports heap-use-after-free. Without Malloc=1 the count is 0, not 1. this._events is the only reference to the emitter and the method body keeps only wrapped(). IDLOperation<JSEventEmitter>::call now holds the emitter with EnsureStillAliveScope. The test for it fails before the fix on a release build with ASAN. On a debug build it passes with and without the fix.

Other notes:

• A descriptor can no longer tell a live ppid from a cached one, which is what test/regression/issue/29169.test.ts checked. It now reparents a process and waits for process.ppid to change. The first process exits only after the second one reports that it read ppid, and the second one polls, so nothing depends on timing. The test removes BUN_FEATURE_FLAG_NO_ORPHANS from the environment of the two processes, because with it a process kills its descendants on exit.
• StringDecoder: the encoding property keeps its current attributes (not enumerable). node:string_decoder: make encoding an enumerable own data property #34609 changes that attribute and touches the same line. The private decoder slot is defined after encoding, in the order of the Node.js constructor. A Proxy ignores private names, so write on a Proxy receiver still throws the invalid-this error, as before.
• A Proxy receiver of the EventEmitter methods now works. Before, _events landed on the proxy cell, the next call did not find it through [[Get]], and each call made a new emitter.
• A reading method no longer replaces a _events of the user that is not a native emitter. A method that assigns still does, as on main.
• listenerCount with a primitive this named listeners in its ERR_INVALID_THIS message. It now names listenerCount.
• The unused Process_defaultSetter has the same putDirect() body and is deleted. Remove dead code from the JSC bindings, headers.h, the console builtin, and bun_jsc #40232 deletes it too.
• node:string_decoder: construct subclasses of StringDecoder #42582 (merged) split the StringDecoder constructor into call and construct. This branch is rebased on it.
• Sites of the same class that this PR leaves:
  • The TZ, NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED and BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH setters of process.env abort on a WebAssembly GC reference in the same way. process.env: keep the native accessors of TZ, NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED, BUN_CONFIG_VERBOSE_FETCH and the proxy keys away from every object but process.env #42710 covers them.
  • Listener.getsockname(out) and the clock marker that jest.useFakeTimers() puts on setTimeout store through the Rust JSValue::put, which is a putDirect(). A frozen object is changed, and a WebAssembly GC reference aborts the process on this branch too. A separate change covers the two.
  • process.emitWarning(error, type, code) stores code and detail on the Error that the caller passes, also on a frozen one. Node.js does not write to that Error. No change is open for it.
  • The other accessor rows of the process table (_eval, argv, connected, debugPort, execArgv, exitCode, title) keep their setters. Those store into the process and not into this. Checked on the release build: for each of the 87 keys of process, Reflect.set and Reflect.get with a frozen object or a WebAssembly GC reference as the receiver change nothing and do not abort. The same holds for 47 functions of process with such a this or first argument.
  • Siblings that are already open: fs.Stats: make the date accessors define the property like Object.defineProperty #42518, worker_threads: do not abort when markAsUntransferable/markAsUncloneable gets a WebAssembly GC reference #42479, spyOn: install and restore through one writer that throws when the object refuses #34976, Error.captureStackTrace: honor the target's integrity level #33412.
• Receivers checked on the debug, release and release ASAN builds of this branch, each against 16 entry points (Reflect.set of ppid, cache and extensions, the cache and extensions setter functions, StringDecoder, on, once, setMaxListeners, listenerCount, listeners, eventNames, getMaxListeners, emit, removeListener, removeAllListeners): plain object, frozen, sealed, non-extensible, array, frozen array, function, frozen function, bound function, class, Date, frozen Map, typed array, non-extensible typed array, frozen Headers, Proxy, revoked Proxy, WebAssembly GC reference, null-prototype object, Error, RegExp, arguments, String object, Symbol object, Promise, generator, Object.create(process) and the same frozen, an object with a non-configurable _events accessor, an object with a read-only encoding, an object from a node:vm context and the same frozen. No abort, no sanitizer report, no locked object changed. The three builds give the same results, also with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 on the debug build.
• Tests that fail without the fix, on a release build of main: test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts 20, test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js 6, test/js/node/process/process.test.js 5, test/js/node/string_decoder/string-decoder.test.js 3, test/regression/issue/29169.test.ts 1. On a release ASAN build the emitter lifetime test fails too.
• Suites run with the debug build: the five test files above in full, process-on.test.ts, process-signal-listener-count.test.ts, process-nexttick.test.js, call-constructor.test.js, require-extensions.test.ts, and in test/js/node/test/parallel/: test-process-ppid.js, test-process-prototype.js, test-process-emit.js, test-process-emitwarning.js, test-process-env-delete.js, test-process-uncaught-exception-monitor.js, test-process-exception-capture.js, test-process-beforeexit.js, test-process-warning.js, test-process-exit.js, test-process-next-tick.js, test-process-kill-pid.js, test-event-emitter-errors.js, test-event-emitter-subclass.js, test-event-emitter-listeners.js, test-event-emitter-remove-listeners.js, test-event-emitter-remove-all-listeners.js, test-events-once.js, test-require-cache.js, test-module-cache.js, test-require-dot.js, test-require-resolve.js, test-require-extensions-main.js, test-require-extension-over-directory.js, test-string-decoder.js, test-string-decoder-end.js, test-string-decoder-fuzz.js. The new tests also pass with BUN_JSC_validateExceptionChecks=1 and on the release and release ASAN builds of this branch. The 8 files of test/js/bun/module-graph/ pass on the release build.
• With a debug build on the machine, process-on.test.ts (should work inside --compile) and some tests of process.test.js run out of time, with and without this change. They pass with the release builds.

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Reproduced on bun 1.4.3-canary.1 and on main e375701 (linux x64) with one script per site:

• Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(process, "ppid").set.call(Object.freeze({}), 7)
• require("string_decoder").StringDecoder.call(Object.freeze({}), "utf8")
• process.listenerCount.call(Object.freeze({}), "x")
• Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(Object.getPrototypeOf(require), "cache").set.call(Object.freeze({}), 1) (and "extensions")

Each call adds a property to the frozen object. With a WebAssembly GC reference as the receiver, each call ends in panic(main thread): abort() called (exit code 134).

With this change ppid has no setter function, and Reflect.set(process, "ppid", 7, frozen) returns false. The require.cache and require.extensions setters, StringDecoder.call(frozen) and process.on.call(frozen, ...) throw a TypeError. listenerCount returns 0, writes nothing and builds no emitter. 35 of the new tests fail on a release build of main. All pass on the debug, release and release ASAN builds of this branch.

require.cache and require.extensions stay accessors. The cache getter needs the receiver to return the cache of a Bun.ModuleGraph. The description has the instruction counts per call, the size, and the sites of the same class that this PR leaves.

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Bindings for process.ppid, require.cache, require.extensions, StringDecoder, and EventEmitter now use receiver property-definition behavior. EventEmitter methods select whether to create _events and handle calls without emitter state. Tests cover restricted, inherited, proxied, primitive, and WebAssembly GC receivers.

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Receiver property bindings src/jsc/bindings/BunProcess.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/JSCommonJSModule.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/JSStringDecoder.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ObjectBindings.h, test/js/node/module/node-module-module.test.js, test/js/node/process/process-ppid.test.ts, test/js/node/string_decoder/string-decoder.test.js, test/regression/issue/29169.test.ts	process.ppid, require.cache, and require.extensions use custom-value semantics. StringDecoder defines its properties through exception-aware own-property definitions. Tests cover descriptors, assignment failures, proxy traps, WebAssembly GC receivers, and process.ppid updates after reparenting.
EventEmitter receiver policy src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSEventEmitterCustom.h, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSEventEmitterCustom.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSEventEmitter.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/EventEmitter.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/EventEmitter.h	EventEmitter operations select whether to create _events. Methods define return and mutation behavior when a receiver has no emitter state. The default listener limit is shared, and unhandled error reporting uses the script execution context global object.
EventEmitter receiver validation test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts	Tests cover receiver method results, property descriptors, proxy traps, WebAssembly GC receivers, argument validation, and emitter retention during re-entrant garbage collection.

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Use describe.each() for the decoder variants.

Replace the manual outer for loop with describe.each() so each constructor variant is a named parameterized suite.

As per coding guidelines: “Use describe.each() for parameterized tests.”

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In `@test/js/node/string_decoder/string-decoder.test.js` at line 22, Replace the
manual outer loop over FakeStringDecoderCall, RealStringDecoder, and
SubStringDecoder with a describe.each() parameterized suite, giving each decoder
variant a named test context while preserving the existing tests and behavior.

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In `@src/jsc/bindings/JSStringDecoder.cpp`:
- Line 617: Update JSStringDecoderConstructor::call so the explicit receiver’s
encoding property descriptor omits JSC::PropertyAttribute::DontEnum, making it
enumerable like ordinary assignment. Extend the receiver test to assert that the
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In `@test/js/node/string_decoder/string-decoder.test.js`:
- Line 22: Replace the manual outer loop over FakeStringDecoderCall,
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suite, giving each decoder variant a named test context while preserving the
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The fix for the error event with no listener in e87ef41 covers the report that I worked on in a separate branch. I do not open a second PR for it.

Branch: robobun/b4cb32dc/report-unhandled-process-error. One commit, 2 files: the same removal of the m_thisObject guard in fireEventListeners, and 18 subprocess cases in test/js/node/events/event-emitter.test.ts. A release build of c909344 passes all 18. main 9390b39 fails 14.

Three of the cases fail on main and have no test in this PR:

1. process.emit("error", new Error("boom")) as the only statement, with --no-warnings or NODE_NO_WARNINGS=1. On main nothing is printed and the exit code is 0. Without the default warning listener, nothing sets m_thisObject at startup.
2. A receiver from a node:vm context that has an emitter of its own:

   process.on("uncaughtException", e => console.log("caught", e.message));
   const receiver = require("node:vm").runInNewContext("({})");
   process.on.call(receiver, "x", () => {});
   process.emit.call(receiver, "error", new Error("boom"));

   main prints the error and exits with code 1. The listener does not run. This PR and Node.js v26.3.0 print caught boom.
3. The script of case 2 inside a worker_threads Worker. main ends with panic: Segmentation fault at address 0x0 (WebWorker__dispatchError, Worker.cpp:207). With this PR the listener of the Worker runs and the Worker exits with code 0.

Cases 2 and 3 check which global object gets the report.

The branch also removes m_thisObject.clear() from removeAllListeners(). With the guard gone, listener calls are the only reader of m_thisObject, and each call that adds a listener sets it again.

Instruction counts of fireEventListeners

Release builds on linux x64, gdb stepi, BUN_JSC_useJIT=0. The counts are the instructions that fireEventListeners executes itself.

	main 9390b39	this PR c909344	the branch (report in a NEVER_INLINE helper)
emit, no listener	48	49	46
emit, one listener	170	173	171
size of the function	1,490 B	1,429 B	1,269 B, helper 176 B

The number of conditional branches is the same in the three builds: 4 with no listener, 26 with one listener. The source of these two paths does not change. The compiler assigns the registers again for the whole function.