## What changed Add real-child tests for parent-death signaling, large environment transfers, explicit file descriptor inheritance, and fallback when the helper exits before acknowledgement. Introduce test-only pause points during environment transfer, reporting, and exec to verify that cancelling startup kills and reaps the helper. Cover cancellation after runtime shutdown and verify that the fallback reaper can reap an exited child while an earlier child remains alive. Probe an actual helper launch before asserting native-helper behavior, and skip fixtures when their required procfs or pidfd support is unavailable. GitOrigin-RevId: 5136dc242a91efd0596171266965f29903c6c970
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Run the following on Mac or Linux to install Codex CLI:
curl -fsSL https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.sh | sh
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powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.ps1 | iex"
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$env:CODEX_INSTALLER_USE_RELEASES_OPENAI_COM='false'; irm https://chatgpt.com/codex/install.ps1 | iex
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