Fixes #15283. ## Summary Older system bubblewrap builds reject `--argv0`, which makes our Linux sandbox fail before the helper can re-exec. This PR keeps using system `/usr/bin/bwrap` whenever it exists and only falls back to vendored bwrap when the system binary is missing. That matters on stricter AppArmor hosts, where the distro bwrap package also provides the policy setup needed for user namespaces. For old system bwrap, we avoid `--argv0` instead of switching binaries: - pass the sandbox helper a full-path `argv0`, - keep the existing `current_exe() + --argv0` path when the selected launcher supports it, - otherwise omit `--argv0` and re-exec through the helper's own `argv[0]` path, whose basename still dispatches as `codex-linux-sandbox`. Also updates the launcher/warning tests and docs so they match the new behavior: present-but-old system bwrap uses the compatibility path, and only absent system bwrap falls back to vendored. ### Validation 1. Install Ubuntu 20.04 in a VM 2. Compile codex and run without bubblewrap installed - see a warning about falling back to the vendored bwrap 3. Install bwrap and verify version is 0.4.0 without `argv0` support 4. run codex and use apply_patch tool without errors <img width="802" height="631" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-25 at 11 48 36 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/77248a29-aa38-4d7c-9833-496ec6a458b8" /> <img width="807" height="634" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-25 at 11 47 32 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5af8b850-a466-489b-95a6-455b76b5050f" /> <img width="812" height="635" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-25 at 11 45 45 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/438074f0-8435-4274-a667-332efdd5cb57" /> <img width="801" height="623" alt="Screenshot 2026-03-25 at 11 43 56 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0dc8d3f5-e8cf-4218-b4b4-a4f7d9bf02e3" /> --------- Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>
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