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… in Readable, Writable and Duplex, with a node-vs-compiled lifecycle parity test Readable destroys itself after 'end', Writable after 'finish' and Duplex once both sides are done, unless autoDestroy is false. Write and final errors go through errorOrDestroy. write() reports ERR_STREAM_WRITE_AFTER_END before ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED. end() reports ERR_STREAM_ALREADY_FINISHED, then ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED, and otherwise holds its callback until finish, a final error or destroy. end(chunk, cb) no longer hands cb to write(). String chunks are decoded to Buffer unless decodeStrings is false.
…uto-destroys, with a node-vs-compiled keep-alive body test IncomingMessage's _destroy closed the connection on every destroy. With autoDestroy, a request whose body was read to the end destroys itself, which dropped the keep-alive connection after each request. It now closes the connection only when the request did not complete.
…push() after EOF, as Node does 'end' was emitted synchronously from push(null) while flowing, so with autoDestroy a stream was destroyed before the code that ended it returned. Node defers both to endReadableNT. A push() after push(null) now goes through errorOrDestroy with ERR_STREAM_PUSH_AFTER_EOF instead of being dropped. Duplex shares Readable's errorOrDestroy.
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end() called _final at once, so a Transform ended from a 'data' handler inside _transform flushed and pushed null before the rest of its output (ERR_STREAM_PUSH_AFTER_EOF), and a Writable with an asynchronous _write emitted 'finish' before the write had completed. Writable and Duplex now count writes in flight and run the pending _final from the last one's callback.
…uild.mjs when a unit includes it gea_node_brotli.hpp decodes whole buffers and, through a handle table over BrotliDecoderState, streams (open/write/finish/close); plugin/index.mjs lists the intrinsics. build.mjs links -lbrotlidec -lbrotlicommon only when a unit includes gea_node_brotli.hpp, finding the library through BROTLI_DIR, Homebrew, vcpkg or the system, and names the package to install when it is missing. The build also refuses a libbrotlidec affected by CVE-2026-111497 (decoder out-of-bounds write, fixed upstream in brotli 1.2.1, 1.1.1 and 1.0.10): it compiles and runs a BrotliDecoderVersion() check against the library it is about to link and stops with an upgrade hint below the fixed release of that line.
…ate, DeflateRaw) and brotliDecompress with their facades and compatibility rows The stream classes are Transforms over native zlib and brotli stream handles: _transform pushes the output of each chunk as it arrives, _flush finishes the stream, and every exit path releases the handle. stream.ts follows Node where these streams depend on it: - Writable and Duplex convert string chunks to Buffers (decodeStrings, default true, off in object mode). - autoDestroy (default true): a Writable is destroyed after 'finish', a Readable after 'end', a Duplex once both have happened, so 'close' fires. - An error from _write, _final or a write after end destroys the stream (emits 'error' then 'close'); with autoDestroy false it only emits 'error'. - write() and end() after destroy call back with ERR_STREAM_DESTROYED. http.IncomingMessage._destroy tears down the connection only when the request did not complete, as Node does, so the autoDestroy that follows a read body no longer closes the connection before the response is written. scripts/test-zlib-streams.mjs compares a compiled probe with Node: each decoder over split input, truncated and corrupt input, round trips, output before end, 'close' after success and after errors, and string writes.
…ing, as Node does A decoder whose stream has ended with input left over pushes null, so 'end' fires before end() as in Node. Gunzip stops at a zero byte after a member on both the stream and the one-shot path instead of reading it as the next header.
inflate, deflate, brotli decompress and the stream writes hand their bytes back through bufferResult, so gzipSync, gunzipSync, deflateSync, inflateSync, brotliDecompressSync, the callback forms and stream chunks are what Buffer.isBuffer accepts, as in Node.
…troyed A write was expanded in full before anything was pushed, so a consumer enforcing a decoded-size limit (raw-body, under body-parser) saw the output only after the whole expansion was in memory: 1,681 bytes of brotli became one 1 GiB chunk. Each native read now yields at most 16 KiB and keeps the unread input and pending output in the codec; _transform and _flush push piece by piece until the codec needs input and stop when the stream is destroyed, so a 'data' handler's destroy() ends decoding after its limit, as in Node.
…rotli test test-native-brotli.mjs repeated brotliPrefix() and, on Windows, accepted a vcpkg triplet directory without the lib/ check build.mjs makes. Both now import windowsLibraries() and brotliPrefix() from scripts/native-libraries.mjs.
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- Line 1106: In both Writable.callFinal and Duplex.callFinal, return immediately
from the _final callback if the stream has been destroyed, before settling
finish or processing the result. Extend the pendingEnds destroy outcome to
invoke finalCallback after held.destroy() and verify the destroyed stream does
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false, then resume draining from _read while preserving the existing callback
and finishing state. Ensure pending decompressed output is not consumed into the
readable buffer while downstream backpressure is active.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Ignore a late _final callback after destroy().
callFinal() checks this.destroyed only before it calls _final. If _final completes asynchronously and the stream is destroyed first, the late callback(null) still runs. It sets writableFinished = true, emits 'finish', and runs destroy() again, which does nothing. Node does not emit 'finish' on a destroyed stream.
destroy() has already set writableAborted = true, so the final state is contradictory. The destroy-during-final case also has no coverage. The pendingEnds probe's destroy outcome never calls finalCallback afterwards.
Add the same guard at the start of the _final callback in both Writable.callFinal and Duplex.callFinal.
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Also extend the pendingEnds probe: call finalCallback?.() after held.destroy(), so Node's behavior is the oracle.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Honor push() backpressure in drain_, or decompression output is unbounded.
drain_ loops until the native codec reports no pending output. It ignores the boolean that this.push(piece) returns. All output of one _transform call is therefore buffered in the readable side, even when the consumer is paused. For example, pipe() pauses the source when the destination write() returns false. A small Brotli or gzip input can still expand to the full decompressed size in memory. The probe's BROTLI_GIB_OF_ZEROS payload is about 1 GiB of output. The probe only covers a flowing consumer that calls destroy() in a data handler. Node's zlib stops producing when push() returns false.
Stop the loop when push() returns false. Keep the callback and finishing state and resume from _read. Alternatively, cap the output of each call. Add a probe with a paused consumer or a slow Writable sink.
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Publish scripts/native-libraries.mjs.
The new ./build entry imports this module, but package.json does not include it in files. The installed package can therefore fail with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND. scripts/test-package.mjs does not catch this omission because its archive assertions do not include the module.
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Reviewed 9b9a7f1..c374ef6 and measured the head (122f06b, which now includes #5) on Linux (WSL, clang 18, compiler main 0b2d50e), side by side with main (af4c409).
Tests at the head: STREAM_LIFECYCLE_PARITY_OK:27; keep-alive body PASS (3 POST bodies over one connection); test-http-overlapping-awaits, test-response-headers, test-abort-signal and test-events-arguments all pass. test-hono and test-fastify-host-surfaces fail in exactly the same way on main in this environment (no prebuilt hono-hello binary, no fastify install), so not this PR.
Code: the autoDestroy and error ordering, push-after-EOF, and end()/_final sequencing match Node's semantics. Of the classes that inherit the new autoDestroy default: ServerResponse keeps its own end()/destroy(), so keep-alive on the response side is unaffected; IncomingMessage._destroy now skips __gea_http_destroy after a complete read; and fs.ReadStream holds no fd.
HTTP cost: server pinned to one core, wrk -t4 -c64 -d8s after a 2 s warmup, CPU read from /proc, 3 alternating rounds:
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raw-http-hello GET, CPU per request |
13.30 / 13.49 / 13.44 µs | 13.78 / 14.28 / 13.70 µs |
| keep-alive body POST, CPU per request | 17.24 / 16.94 / 17.00 µs | 16.96 / 16.07 / 16.98 µs |
A bare GET costs about 2.5–6% more CPU (roughly 74k → 72k rps at saturation). The likely cause is the deferred 'end' microtask plus the auto-destroy and its 'close' microtask on every IncomingMessage. POSTs that read a body show no change. Fine to merge; a possible follow-up is a fast path for an IncomingMessage that ends with no 'end'/'close' listener and whose _destroy would be a no-op.
What Node's stream lifecycle needs from node:stream for IncomingMessage bodies read by body-parser and raw-body: autoDestroy, decodeStrings, write/end error ordering, 'end' on the next turn, _final held until the write in flight completes, and keep-alive surviving an auto-destroyed request.
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STREAM_LIFECYCLE_PARITY_OK:27(scripts/test-stream-lifecycle.mjs), keep-alive body PASS: 3 POST bodies over one connection match Node (scripts/test-http-keep-alive-body.mjs); full sweep green on c374ef6. hello-nest stays at 10 of 11 on main + #4 + this + #5 + the Nest stack (the one deviation is D7, the JSON parse message wording).Related
Base of #5 (zlib streams).
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