fix(fs): appendFile must report failure, not resolve; writeFileSync must throw; mode must reach open(2) (#9421) - #9491
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`fs/promises.appendFile` always resolved, `fs.appendFileSync` never threw, and `fs.appendFile(path, data, cb)` called back with no error. All three routed through `js_fs_append_file_sync_options`, which reports failure by *returning 0* rather than by throwing, and all three discarded that status with `let _ = ...`. The op now goes through `js_fs_append_file_result`, which returns a Node-shaped fs error value (`code` / `errno` / `syscall` / `path`) the way `write_file_path_or_fd_result` already did for `writeFile`, so the sync FFI throws it, the callback form passes it as `err`, and the promise rejects. This is PerryTS#9421: `claude --bare -p hi` wrote 1 transcript record where Node wrote 5, deterministically. The session writer recovers with try { await appendFile(p, chunk) } catch { await mkdir(dirname(p), { recursive: true }); await appendFile(p, chunk) } and that catch is the only thing that ever creates `~/.claude/projects/<slug>/`. Under Perry the first append resolved, the recovery arm never ran, the directory was never created, and every queued record was discarded with no error at any layer. Only `--bare` exposes it: otherwise auto-memory creates `projects/<slug>/memory/` ~47 ms earlier and makes the directory as a side effect. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
…TS#9421) Sibling of the appendFile swallow in the previous commit, found while fixing it. `fs.writeFileSync` kept a private copy of the write op inside `js_fs_write_file_sync_options` that reported failure by returning `0`, and every caller discarded it. The promise and callback forms were never affected -- both already ran `write_file_path_or_fd_result` -- so the sync form now runs that same core and the three agree. The private copy diverged in more than error reporting: it read its payload with `bytes_from_value` instead of `consume_write_file_input`, which is where writeFile's argument validation and its `encoding` option live. Deleting it fixes three divergences at once: writeFileSync("/no/such/dir/f", "x") was: returned now: throws ENOENT writeFileSync(p, 42) was: wrote now: ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE writeFileSync(p, "414243", "hex") was: "414243" now: "ABC" Second, `open_file_for_write_flag` never passed `mode` to `open(2)`, so every file Perry created landed `0666 & ~umask` regardless of the request -- including the claude-code transcript this issue is about, which asks for `0600` and got `0644`, world-readable. Three call sites, all in the write/append family. Using the `open(2)` mode also gives Node's create-only rule for free: an existing file keeps its permissions. Measured on the recompiled cc binary, `--bare -p hi`, fresh HOME: still 5 records with types and order matching Node, and the transcript is now `0600` where Node is `0600` and the previous commit was `0644`. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe filesystem runtime now propagates append and synchronous write failures as Node-shaped errors. Shared write handling validates data, honors encoding, and applies requested modes when creating files. New tests cover promise, synchronous, callback, encoding, append, and permission behavior. ChangesFilesystem API corrections
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to appendFile still mishandles encoding and invalid data, which can write incorrect bytes or silently succeed without writing anything. The PR is not merge-ready until these input-handling cases are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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- Line 594: Update js_fs_append_file_result to convert string content using the
existing options.encoding-aware helper, and validate unsupported content values
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Honor appendFile encoding and validate data.
js_fs_append_file_result uses bytes_from_value for both path and file-descriptor writes. This helper ignores options.encoding for strings and returns an empty vector for unsupported values. Thus, appendFileSync(path, "414243", "hex") writes the six digits instead of ABC, and appendFileSync(path, 42) can report success without writing data. Use the existing encoding-aware conversion and return ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE before opening or writing the file.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/fs/mod.rs` at line 594, Update
js_fs_append_file_result to convert string content using the existing
options.encoding-aware helper, and validate unsupported content values instead
of accepting bytes_from_value’s empty vector. Return ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE before
opening or writing the file, while preserving normal path and file-descriptor
append behavior.
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Solves #9421 — cc session transcripts written incompletely (1 record vs node's 5 under
--bare -p hi).Root cause: the error was swallowed, and an accident masked it
The async-queue records were enqueued and the drain did run. Its single
appendFilefailed withENOENT— and perry resolved the promise anyway.js_fs_append_file_sync_optionsreported failure by returning0, and all three callers discarded it withlet _ = …: the promise form always resolved, the sync form never threw, the callback form passed no error.That mattered because the bundle's recovery arm
is the only code that ever creates
~/.claude/projects/<slug>/— and with the error swallowed it never ran. Node hits the identical ENOENT and recovers. Proven by strace alignment: perry's failedopenatis followed by no syscalls at all; node's is followed bymkdir×3 and a successful retry.last-promptsurvived because it goes throughopenSync(path, "ax"), which throws correctly.The
--baregate was never in the write path. Non-bare cc creates~/.claude/projects/<slug>/memory/(the auto-memory default) 47 ms before the first flush, creating the transcript directory as a side effect and masking the bug.--bareskips auto-memory — the flag removed the accident, not the code path.Commit 1 —
appendFilereports failureNew
js_fs_append_file_result → Result<(), f64>returning a node-shaped fs error (code/errno/syscall/path), mirroring the existingwrite_file_path_or_fd_result. Sync throws it, callback passes it aserr, promise rejects.--bare -p hi×5, recordsqueue-operation ×2, user, assistant, last-promptlast-promptonly-p hi×5 (control)Commit 2 — the
writeFileSyncsibling, andmodeThe promise and callback forms were probed and are not broken — both already run
write_file_path_or_fd_result. Only the sync form was, because it carried a private copy of the write op — and the copy had diverged in more than error reporting. Deleting it in favour of the sharedconsume_write_file_inputpath fixed three divergences at once:writeFileSync("/no/such/dir/f","x")ENOENTwriteFileSync(p, 42)/{}/nullERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPEwriteFileSync(p,"414243","hex")414243ABCmodenow reachesopen(2).open_file_for_write_flaghas exactly 3 call sites, all in this family; anOption<u32>flows toOpenOptions::mode, which also buys node's create-only semantics for free (an existing file keeps its permissions — pinned in the fixture). The real-world consequence:Verification
test_gap_9421_append_file_promise_reject.ts— on unfixed main:resolved/no-throw/writer-file: MISSING; after: byte-identical to node, including thewriter-modeassertion. Standalone — no bundle required.test_gap_9421_write_file_sync_throws.ts— all three sync call shapes (named/namespace/computed — all were broken), promise+callback controls, argument validation,encodingboth spellings,flag:"a",mode×4 — 14 diff lines on unfixed main, byte-identical after.cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib -- --test-threads=1: 2957 passed, 0 failed.--bare -p hi×5 → 5,5,5,5,5;-p hi×5 → 7,7,7,7,7. Regression sweep across all six stdin/transcript stress cases, commit-1 binary vs commit-2 binary: identical exit codes, HOME-tree entries and record counts — no behaviour change beyond the intended throw.Explicitly out of scope, filed separately
The stress suite's other two transcript-shaped cases are different bugs, split by input-shape A/B during this investigation: #9489 (
process.stdinemits onedataevent per line — 200k events for 1 MB, cc truncates piped prompts to a random prefix) and #9490 (setEncoding("utf8")passes raw0x80–0xFFthrough and loses data — transcript JSONL unparseable). Neither is touched here.Closes #9421.
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