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## Why

Linux pipe launches need session, parent-death signal, and descriptor setup. Move this work into a fresh, single-threaded executable image to avoid forking the app-server for child setup.

## What changed

- Register an early setup helper and launch it through `posix_spawn` for Linux pipe processes.
- Start the helper with an empty environment, then transfer the target environment over a control socket so loader settings cannot interfere with helper startup.
- Await target execution asynchronously, propagate setup and execution errors, and kill incomplete launches on cancellation.
- Preserve direct spawning as a fallback when the helper is unavailable or fails before target execution.

## Testing

Add coverage for launch semantics, avoiding fork, loader environment isolation, early argument dispatch, closed standard descriptors, and fallback under bootstrap failure or descriptor pressure. Add an app-server regression test that reuses a process handle after an execution failure.

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tests

Route pipe processes through the shared child launcher (#47605 )

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BUILD.bazel

feat: add support for building with Bazel (#8875 )

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Cargo.toml

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README.md

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README.md

codex-utils-pty

Lightweight helpers for spawning interactive processes either under a PTY (pseudo terminal) or regular pipes. The public API is minimal and mirrors both backends so callers can switch based on their needs (e.g., enabling or disabling TTY).

API surface

spawn_pty_process(program, args, cwd, env, arg0, size) → SpawnedProcess
spawn_pipe_process(program, args, cwd, env, arg0) → SpawnedProcess
spawn_pipe_process_no_stdin(program, args, cwd, env, arg0) → SpawnedProcess
combine_output_receivers(stdout_rx, stderr_rx) → broadcast::Receiver<Vec<u8>>
conpty_supported() → bool (Windows only; always true elsewhere)
TerminalSize { rows, cols } selects PTY dimensions in character cells.
ProcessHandle exposes:
- writer_sender() → mpsc::Sender<Vec<u8>> (stdin)
- resize(TerminalSize)
- close_stdin()
- has_exited(), exit_code(), terminate()
SpawnedProcess bundles session, stdout_rx, stderr_rx, and exit_rx (oneshot exit code).

Usage examples

use std::collections::HashMap;
use std::path::Path;
use codex_utils_pty::combine_output_receivers;
use codex_utils_pty::spawn_pty_process;
use codex_utils_pty::TerminalSize;

# tokio_test::block_on(async {
let env_map: HashMap<String, String> = std::env::vars().collect();
let spawned = spawn_pty_process(
    "bash",
    &["-lc".into(), "echo hello".into()],
    Path::new("."),
    &env_map,
    &None,
    TerminalSize::default(),
).await?;

let writer = spawned.session.writer_sender();
writer.send(b"exit\n".to_vec()).await?;

// Collect output until the process exits.
let mut output_rx = combine_output_receivers(spawned.stdout_rx, spawned.stderr_rx);
let mut collected = Vec::new();
while let Ok(chunk) = output_rx.try_recv() {
    collected.extend_from_slice(&chunk);
}
let exit_code = spawned.exit_rx.await.unwrap_or(-1);
# let _ = (collected, exit_code);
# anyhow::Ok(())
# });

Swap in spawn_pipe_process for a non-TTY subprocess; the rest of the API stays the same. Use spawn_pipe_process_no_stdin to force stdin closed (commands that read stdin will see EOF immediately).

Tests

Unit tests live in src/lib.rs and cover both backends (PTY Python REPL and pipe-based stdin roundtrip). Run with:

just test -p codex-utils-pty --no-capture