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Feature request: Add support for pty fds in process

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the existing process and stream APIs, then study the linked CreatePseudoConsole and openpty references. Before implementation, clarify the public API and platform-specific behavior required for supporting pty file descriptors.

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Description

The main use case is for batch run some apps which doesn't understand "non-tty" stdin.

Windows supports this from win10 , 1803 and requires the special HANDLEs created via CreatePseudoConsole
Linux creates these pty via openpty(3).

Dominant language
C++
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