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What does this PR do?

Adds the read shell builtin to the restricted shell. read consumes a delimited chunk from stdin and assigns each IFS-split field to a shell variable (defaulting to REPLY when no name is given).

This is the first builtin in the codebase that mutates parent-shell state, so the change extends the builtin contract with two minimal capabilities on builtins.CallContext:

  • SetVar(name, value) error — routes through the runner's existing setVarErr, so MaxVarBytes (1 MiB) and MaxTotalVarsBytes (1 MiB) are enforced for free.
  • GetVar(name) (string, bool) — needed so read can consult IFS for field-splitting.

These two together form the minimal complete contract for any future state-aware builtin (export, unset, shift, …).

Motivation

read is a fundamental POSIX builtin. The canonical idiom while IFS= read -r line; do …; done < file is widely used in shell scripts. Until now the shell had no way to express it; read was explicitly blocked at dispatch time. Lifting that block required granting builtins a way to mutate parent-shell variables, which was a deliberate architectural decision discussed during implementation rather than a one-line capability add.

Surface

Supported flags (six + --help):

Flag Behaviour
-r Raw mode (no backslash interpretation)
-p PROMPT Print PROMPT to stderr; only when stdin is a TTY (matches bash)
-d DELIM Single-rune delimiter; -d '' means NUL
-n NCHARS At most N characters (UTF-8 aware), capped at 1 MiB
-N NBYTES Exactly N bytes, ignoring delimiters, capped at 1 MiB
-t SECONDS Read deadline via *os.File.SetReadDeadline; context.WithTimeout fallback. Returns exit 142 on timeout (bash convention: 128 + SIGALRM)

Excluded from v1 with rationale in SHELL_FEATURES.md: -a (needs a parallel SetArrayVar contract addition; can follow later), -s/-u/-e/-i (interactive-terminal features that don't apply in a non-interactive shell).

Memory & DoS hardening

  • -n and -N are rejected at flag-parse time when N > 1 MiB or N < 0. The 1 MiB anchor matches the existing MaxLineBytes cap in cat / head and the runner's MaxVarBytes/MaxTotalVarsBytes.
  • readInput enforces a separate runtime byte ceiling (also 1 MiB) so a UTF-8-amplified -n cannot exceed the buffer cap.
  • Bytes are read one at a time without buffering so subsequent read calls on the same stdin observe unconsumed bytes (a bufio.Reader would swallow bytes past the delimiter — common bug in naive implementations).
  • Defenses layered: flag-time rejection → runtime byte cap → MaxVarBytes on the assigned value → MaxTotalVarsBytes on the aggregate variable store.

IFS field-splitting

Implements POSIX read semantics:

  • Whitespace IFS chars (space, tab, newline) coalesce; non-whitespace IFS chars introduce a separate (possibly empty) field per occurrence.
  • Leading and trailing IFS-whitespace is stripped from the input.
  • When the input has more fields than names, the last variable absorbs the remainder verbatim with only trailing IFS-whitespace stripped.
  • When fewer fields than names, missing variables are set to empty.

Testing

16 new YAML scenarios under tests/scenarios/cmd/read/:

  • basic/ (7) — single var, default REPLY, multi-var, last-absorbs, fewer-fields, redirect-from-file, EOF-returns-1.
  • flags/ (6) — raw vs non-raw, line continuation, delimiter, -n, -N.
  • ifs/ (3) — default IFS (space/tab), custom IFS (:), empty IFS (no stripping).
  • errors/ (4) — -n and -N cap rejection, invalid timeout, invalid identifier.
  • help/ (1) — --help exits 0 with usage.

The non-bash-comparison scenarios all pass locally. Bash byte-for-byte comparison (RSHELL_BASH_TEST=1) was not run locally — Docker daemon was not running. Worth verifying in CI.

Three pre-existing help scenarios were updated for the bumped builtin count (28 → 29). The obsolete shell/blocked_commands/.../read.yaml scenario was deleted.

Symbol allowlists in analysis/symbols_builtins.go updated: 10 new symbols added to the global ceiling (context.CancelFunc, context.DeadlineExceeded, fmt.Fprint, os.ErrDeadlineExceeded, os.File, os.ModeCharDevice, time.Now, unicode/utf8.{DecodeLastRuneInString,FullRune,RuneSelf}) plus a new "read": per-command sublist.

Reviewer notes

  • The two-field expansion of CallContext is the architecturally significant change. Future state-aware builtins should reuse SetVar/GetVar rather than reaching past them.
  • Non-raw backslash handling does require multi-rune lookahead (\<delim> is a line continuation, \<X> is just X). The readInput function handles this with a single helper closure for rune reads.
  • -p is silent in this codebase because stdin is always a pipe in scripted contexts. The TTY check is there for parity in case stdin is ever wired to a terminal by a calling embedder.
  • Per AGENTS.md, this PR is opened as a draft; please do not add the verified/allowed_symbols label automatically — that is reserved for human approval after reviewing the symbol-allowlist changes.

Checklist

  • Tests added (16 YAML scenarios)
  • Documentation updated (SHELL_FEATURES.md)
  • Symbol allowlists updated
  • make fmt clean, go vet clean, full test suite passes locally
  • Bash comparison verified locally (skipped — Docker not running)

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Adds the `read` shell builtin, which consumes a delimited chunk from
stdin and assigns the IFS-split fields to one or more shell variables
(defaulting to REPLY when no name is given). This is the first builtin
in the codebase that mutates parent-shell state, so the change extends
the builtin contract with a minimal pair of capabilities.

Contract change (builtins.CallContext):
  - SetVar(name, value) error: assign to a shell variable; routes
    through the runner's setVarErr so MaxVarBytes and
    MaxTotalVarsBytes are enforced.
  - GetVar(name) (string, bool): read a shell variable (used to
    consult IFS for field-splitting).

Wired at both CallContext construction sites in interp/runner_exec.go.

Builtin (builtins/read/read.go) supports:
  -r              raw mode (no backslash interpretation)
  -p PROMPT       print to stderr (only when stdin is a TTY, matches bash)
  -d DELIM        single-rune line delimiter; -d '' uses NUL
  -n NCHARS       read at most N characters (UTF-8 aware), capped at 1 MiB
  -N NBYTES       read exactly N bytes ignoring delimiters, capped at 1 MiB
  -t SECONDS      timeout via *os.File.SetReadDeadline (or context.WithTimeout
                  fallback); returns 142 on timeout to match bash
  --help          usage to stdout

Excluded from v1: -a (would need SetArrayVar), -s/-u/-e/-i (interactive
features that don't apply to a non-interactive shell). Documented in
SHELL_FEATURES.md.

Field-splitting follows POSIX read semantics: whitespace IFS chars
coalesce, non-whitespace IFS chars introduce separate fields, leading
and trailing IFS-whitespace is stripped, and the last variable absorbs
the remainder when there are more fields than names.

Bytes are read one at a time without buffering so subsequent reads from
the same stdin observe unconsumed bytes (a buffered reader would
swallow them past the delimiter).

Tests: 16 new scenarios under tests/scenarios/cmd/read/ covering
basic, flags, ifs, errors, and help. Three help scenarios bumped from
28 to 29 builtins; the obsolete read-is-blocked scenario removed.
Symbol allowlists updated for the new package's imports.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Builtins must not call time.Now directly; the canonical pattern is
callCtx.Now (script-start reference, captured once per Run for stable
multi-builtin reasoning) for things like find -mtime / ls -l.

For read -t SECONDS we want a true monotonic "from now" deadline, not a
script-start reference (a 5s timeout 10s into the script must not fire
immediately). callCtx.Now is therefore wrong here. The right answer is
to read the deadline already computed by context.WithTimeout — that
call is on the symbol allowlist, the stdlib does the time.Now lookup
internally, and ctx.Deadline() lets us project that same instant onto
*os.File.SetReadDeadline so kernel and context deadlines stay in sync.

Removes time.Now from both the global builtin allowlist and the read
per-command sublist.

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Four bash-compatibility fixes flagged by codex:

1. Preserve unsplit input for REPLY and -N
   When no NAME is given, bash assigns the raw line to REPLY without
   IFS trimming or splitting. With -N, bash assigns the whole read to
   the first NAME and leaves remaining NAMEs empty (no IFS splitting).
   Both paths now skip splitIFS entirely.

2. Count -N input as characters, not raw bytes
   Bash's -N is character-based, not byte-based: read -N 1 over "éx"
   stores "é" (2 bytes), not the first byte of the UTF-8 sequence.
   Dropped the dedicated byte-mode branch and unified -N with the
   default rune+escape path; -N differs only in that it ignores the
   delimiter rune. Backslash handling in -N now matches bash too
   (escapes processed unless -r).

3. Permit values exactly at the read byte cap
   The cap check fired before the -n / delimiter checks, so a value of
   exactly MaxReadBytes was rejected on the next iteration even though
   the flag validation and MaxVarBytes both allow that size. The cap
   now fires only when an append would push past it, so a 1 MiB
   value/line followed by EOF or the delimiter returns successfully.

4. Handle a single trailing IFS separator
   `printf 'a:b:\n' | { IFS=: read a b; }` should give b="b" because
   the trailing colon represents an empty trailing field that bash
   silently drops. splitIFS now strips a lone trailing non-ws IFS
   character from the last absorbed field when it is the only such
   character in that field. Verified across the spectrum: a:b: → b,
   a:b:: → b::, a::b: → :b: (only one strip when there is exactly
   one trailing IFS char in the absorbed remainder).

New scenarios:
  basic/reply_preserves_padding.yaml
  flags/N_counts_chars_utf8.yaml
  flags/N_applies_escape.yaml
  flags/N_skips_field_split.yaml
  ifs/trailing_single_ifs_stripped.yaml

All 22 read scenarios pass; full suite green.

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The bash comparison test runs in debian:bookworm-slim's default C/POSIX
locale, where bash's `read -N` counts bytes (so `read -N 1` over `éx`
returns the first byte 0xC3 — an invalid UTF-8 fragment). rshell always
counts UTF-8 characters regardless of locale, so the test assertion
`[é]` matched bash on macOS (UTF-8 locale) but not in CI.

Setting LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 for the bash side puts bash in UTF-8 mode,
making the comparison meaningful: both shells now treat -N as
character-based on UTF-8 input. Verified locally with
`LC_ALL=C bash` (returns `[\xc3]`) vs `LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 bash` (returns
`[é]`).

The intentional divergence in C-locale environments is documented in
the scenario comment.

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Three bash-compatibility fixes from the latest codex review:

1. Preserve partial input on read timeouts
   When `-t` fires after some data has been read but before the
   delimiter, bash assigns the partial line and returns 142. Previous
   implementation returned 142 immediately and discarded the bytes.
   Restructured run() to track a `timedOut` flag and fall through to
   the assignment path when there is data, surfacing 142 only at the
   end. Empty result + timeout still returns 142 with no assignment.

2. Handle `-t 0` as a non-blocking poll
   Bash's `read -t 0` returns 0 if input is immediately available
   (data buffered or EOF), 142 otherwise — no waiting, no consumption.
   Previously `context.WithTimeout(ctx, 0)` produced an already-expired
   context that always reported timeout.
   Added pollAvailable() that sets an in-the-past read deadline on
   *os.File stdin (computed from c.Now to avoid a direct time.Now
   call) and probes for one byte. The byte is consumed on success — an
   intentional divergence from bash, documented inline; matching bash
   exactly would require a platform-specific select(2) call.

3. Use a real isatty check for the -p prompt
   `os.ModeCharDevice` matched any character device including
   /dev/null, so `read -p PROMPT x </dev/null` would emit the prompt;
   bash suppresses it. Replaced with golang.org/x/term.IsTerminal,
   which uses the platform's TIOCGETA / GetConsoleMode and returns
   false for /dev/null, pipes, and regular files.

Symbol allowlist updates:
  + golang.org/x/term.IsTerminal (global ceiling + read sublist)
  + time.Hour (read sublist; in-the-past poll deadline)
  - os.ModeCharDevice (no longer needed; removed from global ceiling
    and read sublist).

go.mod gains a direct dep on golang.org/x/term.

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# Conflicts:
#	SHELL_FEATURES.md
#	analysis/symbols_builtins.go
#	interp/register_builtins.go
#	tests/scenarios/cmd/help/restricted.yaml
#	tests/scenarios/cmd/help/restricted_all_flag.yaml
#	tests/scenarios/cmd/help/unrestricted.yaml
#	tests/scenarios/cmd/help/unrestricted_all_flag.yaml
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Three bash-compatibility fixes from the latest codex review:

1. Defer invalid-name failure until assignment time
   For `printf 'a b c\n' | { read good 1bad mid; }` bash assigns
   good=a, prints an error for 1bad, leaves mid untouched, and
   returns 1. Previously rshell rejected the whole call before the
   read ran, so even good was left empty. The validation has been
   moved into the assignment loop: each name is checked just before
   its SetVar call, and the error message now matches bash's exact
   format (`read: \`1bad': not a valid identifier`).

2. Honour the last of -n / -N when both are specified
   bash applies last-set-wins: `read -n 1 -N 2` reads 2 chars,
   `read -N 2 -n 1` reads 1. The previous implementation always
   chose -N when present. pflag's `Changed()` only reports whether
   a flag was set, not relative parse order, so we install a
   custom `pflag.Value` (`orderedIntValue`) that records, on each
   Set(), a monotonic counter shared between the two flags. The
   handler picks the flag with the larger counter.

3. Don't consume input for `read -t 0` (Unix)
   bash's `read -t 0` is a non-consuming availability probe, so
   `read -t 0 && read line` over `printf "hello\n"` should leave
   `line=hello`. The previous implementation set a deadline in the
   past and read one byte, which leaked the byte on success. Added
   a platform-specific `pollInputNonConsuming` helper using
   `unix.Poll(fds, 0)` for Unix; Windows continues to fall back to
   the consume-based probe (documented as a follow-up).

Symbol allowlist updates:
  + golang.org/x/sys/unix.{Poll,PollFd,POLLIN,POLLHUP}
  + strconv.Atoi / strconv.Itoa (used by orderedIntValue)

New scenarios:
  errors/invalid_name_after_valid.yaml
  flags/n_N_last_wins.yaml

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When read hits EOF or times out before any data, bash assigns "" to
every requested NAME (clearing any prior value) and then returns the
non-zero exit code. The previous early-return on `line == ""` skipped
the assignment loop, so `X=old; read X </dev/null` left X=old instead
of clearing it.

Removed the early return; the assignment loop now runs with the
zero-valued `values` slice, which writes "" to each variable. The
existing exit-code logic at the end of run() then surfaces 1 (EOF) or
142 (timeout) as appropriate.

Verified bash matches:
  X=old; read X </dev/null                  → rc=1, X=""
  A=oldA B=oldB; read A B </dev/null        → rc=1, A="", B=""
  good=oldgood mid=oldmid;
    read good 1bad mid </dev/null           → rc=1, good="", mid=oldmid
                                              (loop stops at 1bad)
  { sleep 0.2; printf "x\n"; } | { X=old;
    read -t 0.05 X; }                       → rc=142, X=""

New scenario at tests/scenarios/cmd/read/basic/eof_clears_existing_var.yaml
locks in the multi-var EOF-clears-existing-value behavior.

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Bash's line-continuation behaviour for backslash-delim only applies
when the delimiter is newline. With a custom -d delimiter, `\<delim>`
is an escape — the delimiter character is appended literally:
`printf 'a\,b,c' | read -d , x` should assign `a,b`. The previous
code treated any `\<delim>` as continuation, dropping both bytes and
silently losing data for any escaped custom-delim input.

Tightened the line-continuation check to require `delim == '\n'` so
non-newline delimiters fall through to the regular escape branch
(backslash dropped, next rune appended).

Verified against bash:
  printf 'a\,b,c' | read -d , x        → x="a,b"
  printf 'a\,b,c' | read -d , -r x     → x="a\\"
  printf 'a\\\nb\n' | read x           → x="ab"   (continuation, unchanged)
  printf 'a\\bc\n' | read x            → x="abc"  (regular escape, unchanged)

New scenario at tests/scenarios/cmd/read/flags/escape_custom_delim.yaml.

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readByte := func() (byte, error) {
for {
if err := ctx.Err(); err != nil {
return 0, err
}
n, err := r.Read(one)

P1 Badge Honor run deadlines while read is blocked

When read is waiting on an idle stdin without its own -t flag, the whole-run context deadline is only checked before entering r.Read(one), so an interp.MaxExecutionTime, CLI --timeout, or parent context cancellation cannot interrupt a blocking terminal/pipe read. This newly allowed builtin can therefore hang an otherwise time-bounded rshell run until input arrives; propagate any existing ctx.Deadline() to pollable *os.File stdin (similar to the -t path) or otherwise arrange for the read to unblock on cancellation.


if !ignoreDelim && nrn == delim && delim == '\n' {
continue

P2 Badge Cap consumed bytes for continuations

For non-raw reads, an input made of repeated backslash-newline pairs never appends to buf and never increments runes, so the 1 MiB MaxReadBytes cap is not reached while read drains arbitrarily large input looking for a logical line terminator. In contexts where stdin is attacker-controlled, this bypasses the resource bound documented for the builtin and can burn unbounded CPU/I/O; count consumed bytes as well as buffered bytes before continuing here.

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Two fixes from the latest codex pass:

1. Honour run deadlines while read is blocked (P1)
   When read waited on idle stdin without its own -t flag, an
   inherited context deadline (interp.MaxExecutionTime, CLI --timeout,
   parent ctx cancellation) was only checked between bytes, not
   inside the blocking r.Read syscall. A blocking terminal/pipe read
   could hang an otherwise time-bounded run.

   Lifted the SetReadDeadline propagation out of the `if -t` block so
   it fires whenever readCtx has any deadline. context.WithTimeout
   already returns the earlier of -t and the inherited deadline via
   ctx.Deadline(), so a single SetReadDeadline call covers both
   cases. Plumbed this for *os.File stdin (the runner's typical pipe
   shape); other readers still rely on the per-byte ctx.Err() check.

2. Cap consumed bytes for continuations (P2)
   Non-raw input made of repeated backslash-newline pairs never
   appended to buf and never incremented runes, so the 1 MiB
   MaxReadBytes cap (which only checked output buffer size) never
   fired while read drained the stream looking for a logical
   terminator. With attacker-controlled stdin this could burn
   unbounded CPU/I/O.

   Added a `consumed` counter that increments on every successful
   readByte. The cap is now checked in readByte itself, so any
   sequence of input — including discarded continuations or escape
   bytes — is bounded at MaxReadBytes total. The existing
   tryAppend size check is retained for defence in depth.

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Comment thread builtins/read/read.go Outdated
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Two fixes from the latest codex pass:

1. Allow max-sized records to reach EOF or delimiter (P2)
   The new consumed-bytes cap fired with `>=` MaxReadBytes, which
   meant a 1 MiB line followed by its newline errored out before
   read could observe the terminator. The cap should fire only when
   another byte would push us past it. Changed the check to `>` so
   reading exactly MaxReadBytes data bytes plus a 1-byte delimiter
   succeeds. Drain attacks still bounded — they error after at most
   one byte over the cap.

2. Reject non-finite / oversized -t timeouts (P2)
   `strconv.ParseFloat` accepts NaN, Inf, scientific notation, and
   values whose nanosecond conversion overflows time.Duration into
   a negative duration that fires immediately. Bash rejects all of
   these as "invalid timeout specification".

   Added parseReadTimeout that pre-validates the timeout string is
   non-empty and contains only `[0-9.]` with at most one '.', then
   ParseFloat for the numeric value, then NaN/Inf/overflow guards.
   The error message now matches bash:
     read: NaN: invalid timeout specification

Verified bash rejects: NaN, Inf, 1e6, 1e20, -5, notanumber
Verified bash accepts: 1, 1.5, 0.5, .5, 1., 100000000

Symbol allowlist: math.IsNaN, math.IsInf, math.MaxInt64 added to
the read sublist.

Updated tests/scenarios/cmd/read/errors/invalid_timeout.yaml to
exercise NaN, Inf, scientific notation, and negative inputs and
to assert the bash-style error message.

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Comment thread builtins/read/read.go Outdated
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Two fixes from the latest codex pass:

1. Skip NUL bytes unless NUL is the delimiter (P2)
   Bash silently strips embedded NUL bytes from the assigned value
   regardless of mode. The only case where NUL matters is `-d ''`
   (NUL delimiter), and that path is handled by the delim check
   above the new NUL skip. Verified bash produces "abc" for
   `printf 'a\0b\0c\n' | read x` and "abcd" for `read -N 5 -d ''
   <<< 'ab\0cd'` — neither retains the NUL byte.

   Added an `if rn == 0 { continue }` after the delim check in
   readInput. The NUL byte is still counted toward `consumed` (so
   pathological NUL-stuffed input remains bounded) but is not
   appended and does not increment `runes`.

2. Preserve abort semantics on variable storage exhaustion (P2)
   AST-level assignment treats `errTotalVarStorageExceeded` from
   the writeEnv as a script-aborting resource-cap violation
   (interp/vars.go: sets `r.exit.exiting = true`). The previous
   `read` SetVar wrapper called `r.setVarErr` and returned the
   raw error to the builtin, which surfaced it as a regular
   status-1 failure — letting the script continue past the cap
   and weakening the DoS guard.

   Added a public sentinel `builtins.ErrVarStorageExceeded`. The
   SetVar wrapper now translates the private interp sentinel to
   the public one (preserving the original error message via
   wrapping). `read` checks `errors.Is(err, builtins.ErrVarStorageExceeded)`
   and returns `Result{Code: 1, Exiting: true}` so the runner
   stops the script, matching AST-assignment behaviour.

New scenario: tests/scenarios/cmd/read/basic/strips_nul_bytes.yaml
locks in the NUL-strip behaviour against bash.

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@codex review this PR (iteration 7). P0/P1/P2/P3 prefix.

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Iteration 7 self-review result: 0 findings. SUCCESS_COUNT=4/5.

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@codex review this PR (iteration 8). P0/P1/P2/P3 prefix.

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Iteration 8 self-review result: 0 findings. SUCCESS_COUNT=5/5 — loop reached clean terminator.

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Review-Fix Loop Summary

Iteration log

# Unresolved threads P0/P1/P2 findings Fixes applied CI status
1 3 (3 self) 4 (0/0/2 + 2 P3) self + 2 P2 codex 6 fixed Passing
2 1 codex 1 P2 codex 1 fixed Passing
3 1 codex 1 P2 codex 1 fixed Passing
4 0 0 Passing
5 0 0 Passing
6 0 0 Passing
7 0 0 Passing
8 0 0 Passing

Findings fixed across the loop

Iteration 1 (self + codex):

  • P2 multi-byte -d delim divergence (rune→byte semantics, full readInput rewrite)
  • P2 missing scenario for multi-byte -d
  • P3 kernelCancel watchdog ran in pollMode (reordered)
  • P3 goroutine retry did not observe ctx.Done (added)
  • P2 codex: preserve bytes after invalid UTF-8 (obsoleted by byte-level rewrite)
  • P2 codex: dot-only timeout -t . / -t +. should be 0 (added short-circuit)

Iteration 2 (codex):

  • P2 codex: pollAvailable non-Unix fallback consumed input (removed consume-based fallback)

Iteration 3 (codex):

  • P2 codex: bare + timeout should be 0 (added empty-after-strip short-circuit)

Iterations 4–8: zero findings; codebase converged.

Final state

  • Unresolved threads: 0 (from matt-dz or chatgpt-codex-connector)
  • P0/P1/P2 findings: 0
  • CI: Passing on all real checks. The only failing check is Static Analysis Label Check, which is the manual-approval gate intentionally exempt per AGENTS.md (Never add the verified/allowed_symbols GitHub label).

Remaining issues

None — PR is ready for human review and merge.

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Comment thread builtins/read/read.go Outdated
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…fields

Codex P2: when the last assigned field's absorbed remainder contains
internal IFS characters (ws or non-ws), bash preserves a trailing
non-ws IFS character verbatim. The previous splitIFS rule "strip a
lone trailing non-ws IFS char if exactly one such char in the
absorbed string" was incorrect — `IFS=' ,' read a <<< 'b a,'`
should produce a="b a," (the comma is preserved because the space
is internal IFS-ws), but rshell stripped the comma yielding
a="b a".

Fix: tighten the strip rule. Strip the trailing non-ws IFS char
only when the candidate string (s minus that char, then trim
trailing IFS-ws) contains NO IFS characters at all — i.e., a
single-field shape. Multiple internal IFS chars (any kind) means
the absorbed value represents data from multiple fields and is
preserved verbatim including the trailing delim.

Verified empirically against bash 5.2:
  IFS=' ,' read a    <<< 'b a,'    → a="b a,"  (preserve)
  IFS=' ,' read a    <<< 'b,a,'    → a="b,a,"  (preserve)
  IFS=' ,' read a b  <<< 'a b c,'  → b="b c,"  (preserve)
  IFS=' ,' read a    <<< 'a,'      → a="a"     (strip, single-field)
  IFS=' ,' read a    <<< 'a ,'     → a="a"     (strip, single-field)
  IFS=':'  read a    <<< 'b a:'    → a="b a"   (strip, ' ' not IFS)

Add ifs/preserve_trailing_delim_multifield.yaml covering the four
distinct preserve/strip cases. The existing trailing_single_ifs_stripped
and separator_plus_spaces scenarios continue to pass under the
refined rule (their inputs are all single-field shape).

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…-13b845

# Conflicts:
#	analysis/symbols_builtins.go
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// Non-Unix fallback: report not-available rather than consume.
return builtins.Result{Code: 1}

P2 Badge Implement non-consuming Windows poll for read -t 0

On non-Unix platforms, pollInputNonConsuming reports unsupported and this fallback unconditionally returns status 1, so Windows rshell always says read -t 0 has no data for non-regular stdin even when a pipe already has buffered bytes; for example, printf 'x\n' | { read -t 0 && read v; } takes the false branch on Windows while it succeeds on bash/Linux. Since the project documents Windows support for builtins, readiness checks using read -t 0 need a non-consuming implementation such as PeekNamedPipe/console polling rather than an unconditional false negative.

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Codex P2: on non-Unix platforms, pollAvailable's fallback returned
Code 1 unconditionally, so Windows rshell always reported `read -t 0`
as "no data" for non-regular stdin even when buffered bytes were
sitting in a pipe. Scripts using `printf x | { read -t 0 && read v; }`
took the false branch on Windows while succeeding on bash/Linux.

Implement non-consuming readiness probing on Windows via a new
internal helper package:

  - builtins/internal/winpoll/winpoll_windows.go uses
    GetFileType(handle) to dispatch by descriptor type:
      * FILE_TYPE_DISK  → always available (regular files don't block).
      * FILE_TYPE_PIPE  → PeekNamedPipe via kernel32.dll reports the
                          buffered byte count without consuming any
                          data; lpTotalBytesAvail > 0 ⇒ available.
      * FILE_TYPE_CHAR  → GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents reports
                          queued console-input event count (close
                          enough; counts non-character events too,
                          but matches bash-on-WSL heuristics).
      * other           → unsupported, caller falls back to Code 1.

  - builtins/internal/winpoll/winpoll_other.go is a no-op stub for
    non-Windows builds.

  - builtins/read/poll_other.go now delegates to winpoll.PollNonConsuming
    instead of returning unsupported unconditionally.

The PeekNamedPipe call uses unsafe.Pointer to pass &avail through
syscall.SyscallN — narrow exception isolated to builtins/internal/
(per the same convention as winnet for iphlpapi.dll). No pointer
arithmetic occurs; the returned uint32 is consumed directly.

Update internalPerPackageSymbols and internalAllowedSymbols to
allowlist the new Windows-specific symbols (GetFileType,
GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents, FILE_TYPE_* constants, Handle) plus
the existing syscall.MustLoadDLL and unsafe.Pointer.

Verified: GOOS=windows go build ./... succeeds; analysis tests pass.

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[Claude Opus 4.7 (1M)] Addressed in 76cab76. Implemented non-consuming readiness probing on Windows via a new internal helper package builtins/internal/winpoll:

  • PeekNamedPipe via kernel32.dll for pipes — lpTotalBytesAvail > 0 ⇒ available, never consumes data.
  • GetNumberOfConsoleInputEvents for console/TTY (FILE_TYPE_CHAR).
  • Regular files (FILE_TYPE_DISK) report always-available (kernel reads don't block).
  • GetFileType dispatches by descriptor type; anything unrecognised falls through to the conservative "not available" answer.

builtins/read/poll_other.go (the !unix build) now delegates to winpoll.PollNonConsuming instead of returning unsupported unconditionally. The unsafe.Pointer use is isolated to builtins/internal/winpoll/winpoll_windows.go (single call site, no pointer arithmetic), following the same convention as builtins/internal/winnet for iphlpapi.dll.

Cross-build verified: GOOS=windows go build ./... succeeds; analysis tests pass; existing read tests on Linux/macOS unchanged.

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Comment thread builtins/internal/winpoll/winpoll_windows.go
Codex P2: on Unix, the poll path treats POLLHUP (peer hung up,
no buffered data) as available for `read -t 0` because bash 5.2
considers EOF as "I can complete the read without blocking" and
returns rc=0. The Windows winpoll implementation only reported
`avail > 0`, so `printf '' | { read -t 0 v; }` reported exit 1
on Windows while bash reports 0.

Per Microsoft's PeekNamedPipe docs, when the writer end of the
pipe is closed the call returns FALSE with GetLastError() ==
ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE. Use that as the EOF-ready signal: on a
broken-pipe failure return (available=true, supported=true);
any other failure returns (false, false) so the caller falls
back to the conservative "not available".

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internalAllowedSymbols to allowlist syscall.Errno (for the type
assertion) and golang.org/x/sys/windows.ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE.

Verified: GOOS=windows go build ./... succeeds; analysis tests
and existing read tests pass.

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Codex Review: Didn't find any major issues. Keep it up!

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similar to other commands, can we add a description of the command + description per flag?

Comment thread interp/runner_exec.go
// refuse to run with "variable access is not
// available", which is the closest analogue to bash's
// "exec read fails because read is a builtin, not an
// executable on PATH" behaviour.
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why this comment is needed?

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The omission of SetVar/GetVar in this struct literal is load-bearing: it's how find -exec isolation works. read checks c.SetVar == nil and refuses to mutate the calling scope (matching bash, which exec-forks per match). The comment exists so a future maintainer doesn't "fix" the missing fields and silently break the isolation. Test: tests/scenarios/cmd/read/hardening/find_exec_isolation.yaml.

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vr := r.writeEnv.Get(name)
return vr.Str, vr.IsSet()
},
Proc: r.proc,
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why those changes to interp/runner_exec.go are needed?

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read is the first builtin that mutates parent-shell state, so the runner needs to expose the minimum surface for it:

  • SetVar (assign vars in the calling scope — the whole point of read).
  • GetVar (consult IFS for field-splitting).
  • Translate the internal errTotalVarStorageExceeded sentinel to the public builtins.ErrVarStorageExceeded so the builtin can propagate Result.Exiting on resource-cap exhaustion (matches AST-level setVar semantics).
  • Post-call ctx.Err() check so a read -t that hits the run-level deadline surfaces context.DeadlineExceeded to cmd/rshell main instead of the builtin's 142.

@AlexandreYang requested fuller per-command and per-flag descriptions
to match the verbose-help builtins.

- Replace the single-line package doc with a comprehensive comment
  block (Usage, Flags table, Field splitting, Backslash escapes,
  Exit codes, Unsupported flags) modeled after echo.go's package
  comment.

- Enrich the `--help` output handler so `read --help` (and, via
  builtins/help, `help read`) produces a fuller help screen:
  brief description → Options (pflag-generated from the existing
  per-flag descriptions, unchanged) → Field-splitting paragraph →
  Backslash-escape paragraph → Exit-status table → Unsupported-
  flag note.

  No `Help` field is added on the Cmd struct: read registers its
  own --help handler, and TestHelpFieldOnlyOnNoFlagsCommands
  enforces that flag-having builtins surface help via --help so
  `help read` and `read --help` produce identical output.

The per-flag descriptions on the pflag.StringP/BoolP/VarP calls
were already present and remain unchanged.

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