## Summary
- detect WSL1 before Codex probes or invokes the Linux bubblewrap
sandbox
- fail early with a clear unsupported-operation message when a command
would require bubblewrap on WSL1
- document that WSL2 follows the normal Linux bubblewrap path while WSL1
is unsupported
## Why
Codex 0.115.0 made bubblewrap the default Linux sandbox. WSL1 cannot
create the user namespaces that bubblewrap needs, so shell commands
currently fail later with a raw bwrap namespace error. This makes the
unsupported environment explicit and keeps non-bubblewrap paths
unchanged.
The WSL detection reads /proc/version, lets an explicit WSL<version>
marker decide WSL1 vs WSL2+, and only treats a bare Microsoft marker as
WSL1 when no explicit WSL version is present.
addresses https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/16076
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- add a Linux startup warning when system `bwrap` is present but cannot
create user namespaces
- keep the Linux-specific probe, sandbox-policy gate, and stderr
matching in `codex-sandboxing`
- polish the missing-`bwrap` warning to point users at the sandbox
prerequisites and OS package-manager install path
## Details
- probes system `bwrap` with `--unshare-user`, `--unshare-net`, and a
minimal bind before command execution
- detects known bubblewrap setup failures for `RTM_NEWADDR`,
`RTM_NEWLINK`, uid-map permission denial, and `No permissions to create
a new namespace`
- preserves the existing suppression for sandbox-bypassed policies such
as `danger-full-access` and `external-sandbox`
- updates the Linux sandbox docs to call out the user-namespace
requirement
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Addresses #15282
Problem: Codex warned about missing system bubblewrap even when
sandboxing was disabled.
Solution: Gate the bwrap warning on the active sandbox policy and skip
it for danger-full-access and external-sandbox modes.
## Summary
- split the joined `PATH` before running system `bwrap` lookup
- keep the existing workspace-local `bwrap` skip behavior intact
- add regression tests that exercise real multi-entry search paths
## Why
The PATH-based lookup added in #15791 still wrapped the raw `PATH`
environment value as a single `PathBuf` before passing it through
`join_paths()`. On Unix, a normal multi-entry `PATH` contains `:`, so
that wrapper path is invalid as one path element and the lookup returns
`None`.
That made Codex behave as if no system `bwrap` was installed even when
`bwrap` was available on `PATH`, which is what users in #15340 were
still hitting on `0.117.0-alpha.25`.
## Impact
System `bwrap` discovery now works with normal multi-entry `PATH` values
instead of silently falling back to the vendored binary.
Fixes#15340.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-sandboxing`
- `cargo test -p codex-linux-sandbox`
- `just fix -p codex-sandboxing`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
## Summary
- move the bwrap PATH lookup and warning helpers out of config/mod.rs
- move the related tests into a dedicated bwrap_tests.rs file
## Validation
- git diff --check
- skipped heavier local tests per request
Follow-up to #15791.
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