fix(codex): repair desktop restart membership and POSIX-only cases on Windows

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Summary

Repair desktop restart process membership when a Windows installation root and executable path use different slash spellings. The Windows adapter normalizes both slash forms on both operands before applying the shared lexical boundary check. Its PowerShell prefilter also normalizes both operands, so valid candidates reach the final check; sibling prefixes such as Codex-evil remain excluded.

The shared helper retains host-specific separator semantics, including literal backslashes on POSIX. macOS/Linux adapter cases that require getuid() explicitly skip on Windows and remain covered on their native hosts. Current-user process ownership is unchanged. The source-owner documents describe the prefilter and final membership boundary.

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• Published head 67e5fd2691bd714a74ca0fba3f94a31f307045fd includes dev aa91958e3b050084e1edc07dcd66b05ef6eac604.
• The mixed-separator negative control failed before the fix. Fixed restart tests: 31 pass, 10 platform skips, 85 assertions, plus actual PowerShell with synthetic CIM rows: 2 pass, 8 assertions. No live application restart or process termination was used.
• Typecheck, structure, privacy and diff checks passed. New import-resolution checks passed. The size check's initial timeout was followed by an isolated pass without a baseline change.
• Runtime CI 34914374667 passed on 732e85c8ce3ce7d2024f47e30a32869fc0df59d9. The only subsequent change is the requested documentation wording correction; production and test blobs are unchanged. The lane includes ordinary gates and macOS control while skipping the supplemental full Windows matrix.
• The mixed-separator maintainer request and CodeRabbit wording finding are answered. The author requested Ingwannu re-review through the web at 2026-09-15 00:54:43 UTC; this is verified in the GitHub timeline and was not duplicated.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved desktop process membership checks to prevent similarly named paths from being treated as children of an installation path.
  • Preserved correct separator handling across POSIX and Windows systems, including mixed Windows path separators.
  • Improved restart target matching for mixed path formats.

• Documentation

  • Clarified how installation paths, process ownership, and restart target selection are determined.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for mixed separators, path boundaries, and Windows process filtering.
  • Updated platform-dependent tests to skip unsupported Windows scenarios.

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Walkthrough

The change tightens desktop process membership checks across POSIX and Windows. It rejects sibling path prefixes, normalizes mixed Windows separators, expands restart tests, and documents the runtime membership contract.

Changes

Desktop process membership

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Platform-aware membership logic src/codex/desktop-app/types.ts, src/codex/desktop-app/windows.ts	isUnderRoot now validates the root boundary with platform-aware separators. Windows path handling normalizes both slash forms before PowerShell filtering and shared membership checks.
Membership and restart validation tests/clients/desktop-app-restart-posix.test.ts, tests/clients/desktop-app-restart.test.ts	Tests cover POSIX separator rules, mixed-slash Windows paths, sibling exclusions, restart outcomes, and platform-specific suite execution.
Runtime membership contract documentation structure/*.md, structure/providers/openai-tiers.md, structure/ops/docs-and-release.md	Documentation describes installation-root membership, process ownership, restart boundaries, mixed-slash handling, and cross-platform coverage.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 732e8

The documentation should be corrected to clearly describe accounting fields and regression-test coverage. These are localized documentation issues and do not affect runtime membership behavior.

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리뷰 · 우선순위 67 / 80

이 PR은 Windows CI에서 tests/clients/desktop-app-restart-posix.test.ts가 깨지는 문제를 고칩니다. 지금 dev(HEAD 6e08402d8, 패키지 2.55.0)의 src/codex/desktop-app/types.ts isUnderRoot는 멤버십 경계를 path.sep 하나만으로 만듭니다. Windows는 /도 경로 구분자로 받는데, 프로브가 슬래시 경로를 돌려주면 설치 루트 안에 있는 실행 파일이 “루트 밖”으로 잘못 판정됩니다. 그러면 사용자가 요청한 데스크톱 재시작이 실패처럼 보이지 않은 채 아무 일도 안 하는 no-op이 될 수 있습니다. 형제 접두사 구멍(chatgpt vs chatgpt-evil)을 막으려고 만든 함수라, 닫히는 방향이 너무 세면 실제 멤버까지 잘라 버립니다.

고치는 방식은 두 갈래입니다. 첫째, isMembershipSeparator를 두고 /는 모든 호스트에서 구분자로 인정하고, \\는 호스트 sep이 백슬래시일 때만 구분자로 둡니다. POSIX에서 백슬래시는 파일 이름 문자라서 거기서까지 구분자로 인정하면 형제 구멍이 다시 열립니다. 둘째, macOS/Linux 어댑터 테스트는 process.getuid()에 의존하는데 Windows 호스트에는 없어서 프로브가 “실행 불가”로 끝나는 것이 맞습니다. 그래서 해당 describe를 describe.skipIf(process.platform === "win32")로 건너뛰고, Ubuntu/macOS 샤드에서만 돌립니다. 멤버십·락 케이스는 Windows에서도 계속 돕니다. 본문 기준 로컬에서 해당 스위트가 27 pass / 10 skip / 0 fail이라고 합니다.

현재 dev 방향(#4536 Google structured output + Anthropic parallel=false)과는 다른 축이지만, 최근 데스크톱 재시작 사다리(src/codex/desktop-app/)가 Windows 샤드에서 빨간 채로 있으면 기여 PR이 초록으로 못 가는 비용이 큽니다. 범위는 작습니다(+31/−5). Draft이고 Cross-platform CI 전체는 아직 안 돌린 상태입니다. 베이스는 dev보다 #4536 한 커밋 뒤입니다.

라인 119-125 - isMembershipSeparator - /를 전 호스트에서 인정하고 \\는 win32에서만 인정하는 규칙은 형제 구멍과 Windows 혼용 구분자를 동시에 다루는 올바른 최소 수정입니다.
라인 127-132 - isUnderRoot - 루트 끝/다음 문자가 구분자인지만 보므로, 예전 root + sep 접두사와 POSIX에서는 같은 집합을 유지합니다. Windows에서만 슬래시 멤버가 새로 통과합니다.
경로 src/codex/desktop-app/windows.ts 주석 - 아직 “isUnderRoot prefixes with the host path.sep”이라고 적혀 있어 이 PR 이후에는 어긋납니다. toHostMembershipPath는 소문자화·유닉스 CI용 \\→/ 접기만 하고, 실제 Windows에서 /와 \\가 섞인 케이스는 이제 isUnderRoot가 받습니다. 주석을 같이 고치는 편이 좋습니다.
경로 테스트 describe 제목 - “measured on Windows”인데 이제 Windows에서 skip됩니다. 이름만 읽으면 혼란스럽습니다.
경로 베이스 - HEAD 6e08402d8(#4536)이 빠져 있습니다. 충돌 가능성은 낮지만 머지 전에 fast-forward 리베이스가 필요합니다.
경로 Draft / CI - hygiene·target은 통과, Cross-platform 전체는 미실행. Windows 샤드에서 이 파일이 정말 초록인지가 이 PR의 존재 이유입니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

• Draft를 ready로 올리기 전에 Windows 포함 Cross-platform CI를 필수 게이트로 둘지
• windows.ts 주석·skip된 describe 이름을 이 PR에서 같이 정리할지, 후속으로 미룰지
• [agent] fix: send Google structured output on the generateContent wire and map Anthropic parallel=false #4536 한 커밋만 뒤인 상태를 리베이스 후 바로 머지할지

너의 추천
dev에 리베이스한 뒤 Windows 샤드에서 해당 테스트가 초록인지 확인하고 ready로 올린 다음 머지하세요. windows.ts 주석과 skip describe 제목은 같은 PR에서 짧게 맞추는 편이 낫습니다. 기능 범위는 유지할 가치가 큽니다.

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Hosted cross-platform CI result for the published head e696a223e, run 34793832912.

The change does what it claims. Five of the six Windows shards are green: windows 1/6, 2/6, 3/6, 4/6 and 6/6 all pass, and tests/clients/desktop-app-restart-posix.test.ts no longer fails anywhere. At dev that file failed 9 of 17 on Windows and took the shard down for every contributor pull request. Ubuntu and macOS shards are green as well.

One Windows shard still fails, windows 5/6, for a reason that is not this change. The failure is injectCodexConfig integration (Design B) > a paginated home still receives the model catalog path the picker reads in tests/codex-integration/codex-inject-integration.test.ts. That test asserts the raw text of config.toml contains the catalog path, but model_catalog_json is written as a TOML basic string, so on Windows the file holds C:\\Users\\... while the assertion looks for C:\Users\.... I reproduced it on a Windows host at dev with no local changes: 74 pass / 1 fail, same failure text. It is a second independent dev regression on the same shard, and I opened #4568 for it as a test-only fix rather than mixing it into this pull request.

So the Windows shard needs both changes to go green. This one clears the desktop-app-restart-posix failures; #4568 clears the remaining codex-inject-integration failure. Neither depends on the other.

For context on why this matters beyond CI: the isUnderRoot change is a real product fix, not a test accommodation. On Windows the boundary was built from path.sep alone, so a member path written with forward slashes read as outside the install root, and windows.ts folds case but keeps backslashes. The POSIX semantics are provably unchanged, since / was already accepted there and \ is only accepted where sep === "\\".

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Requesting changes on exact head f79c14730986a9e63f2e51cdeeea099d13ec4ea3.

The new boundary-character check fixes C:/root/file against C:/root, but it does not fix mixed Windows spellings. isUnderRoot() still runs executable.startsWith(root) before looking at the separator. Therefore C:/Program Files/OpenAI.Codex/chatgpt.exe versus C:\Program Files\OpenAI.Codex (and the reverse) still returns false even though Windows names the same tree. The rationale explicitly says a probe can return either separator, but the regression uses / on both operands.

Please normalize both slash forms in the existing Windows-only toHostMembershipPath() seam before calling the shared boundary helper, and add both mixed-direction cases plus the OpenAI.Codex-evil control. Keeping that normalization Windows-local preserves the correct POSIX rule that backslash is an ordinary filename character; the shared helper can then remain a lexical boundary check over one normalized spelling.

The exact-head ordinary CI and the tested same-spelling cases are green, but they do not exercise this remaining Windows failure. The POSIX-only skips themselves are reasonable and are not the blocker.

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structure/AGENTS.md requires structure/ documents to state the current subsystem contract. At line 458, the sentence is incomplete and does not clearly state what the row carries. Change it to A row also carries what its logical request cost upstream is. or use an equivalent complete sentence.

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- Around line 279-280: Update the documentation sentence referencing the desktop
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[luvs01]

Implemented the mixed-separator review request in 732e85c8ce3ce7d2024f47e30a32869fc0df59d9 (including the dev refresh). Both operands are normalized in the Windows seam; the PowerShell prefilter now does the same before final shared-boundary validation. The opposite mixed directions and both sibling-prefix exclusions are covered. Focused restart checks passed (31 pass, 10 platform skips, 85 assertions), plus two actual PowerShell/synthetic-CIM cases (2 pass, 8 assertions). POSIX backslash semantics and current-user ownership are preserved. Current-head CI is linked in the updated description. Requesting re-review of the corrected seam.

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Approved on exact head 67e5fd2691bd714a74ca0fba3f94a31f307045fd. The previous blocker is fixed: Windows-local normalization now folds both operands before the shared lexical boundary check, the PowerShell prefilter normalizes the same way, and both mixed directions plus sibling-prefix exclusions are covered. POSIX backslash semantics remain unchanged. Isolated Linux verification on this head passed 41 tests with the 2 Windows-only PowerShell fixtures correctly skipped, plus typecheck, structure, privacy, and diff checks; protected runtime hashes remained unchanged. This clears my code-review change request. The PR is still a draft and the current head has only metadata checks, so it must be marked ready and obtain exact-head Windows/cross-platform CI before any merge.