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FYI the <https://www.pantsbuild.org/blog/2025/06/29/introducing-the-sandboxer|sandboxer> is now enabled in pants’s own CI. If you see any issues, let me know!

If that goes well I would like to enable it for desktop builds as well. And eventually turn it on by default for all users.

This is so we can get rid of the complicated ETXTBSY mitigation heuristics