microsoft/node-pty

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Indexed issues: 45
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Dominant language: TypeScript
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Last GitHub push: Sep 14, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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45 open issues indexed

Windows: ConoutConnection worker and conpty_console_list_agent inherit process.execArgv, so the host's --require preload runs inside them Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

microsoft/node-pty#974 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Windows PowerShell 5.1 cannot run the install script because of || Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/node-pty#972 · Opened Sep 21, 2026
Update vulnerable npm dependencies Open

microsoft/node-pty#969 · 1 reaction · 2 assignees · Opened Sep 14, 2026
kill() on ConPTY can hard-kill an unrelated live process up to 5s later via bare-PID fallback in _getConsoleProcessList timeout Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/node-pty#967 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
ConPTY: the pseudoconsole is never closed on a natural shell exit — the exit watcher erases the baton before onExit, leaking one conhost.exe per pty Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

microsoft/node-pty#965 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2026
No AIX/IBM i PASE support (forkpty/openpty missing, but Unix98 primitives work) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/node-pty#963 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
pty_close_inherited_fds() is undefined on any non-Linux, non-macOS platform (build break on FreeBSD/OpenBSD too) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

microsoft/node-pty#962 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Windows ConPTY: unhandled 'error' event on conout/conin sockets + re-throw in error handler kills the embedding host Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

microsoft/node-pty#960 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Spectre-mitigated libraries are required for this project Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/node-pty#957 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Windows: 1.2.0-beta.15 terminal process exits before the first write (beta.14 is fine) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/node-pty#955 · Opened Aug 18, 2026
ConPTY kill(): the console-list agent races the pseudoconsole teardown, so the leftover-process sweep never runs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/node-pty#952 · Opened Aug 16, 2026
ConPTY/TSFN exit callback aborts the process during environment teardown — fixable with NODE_API_SWALLOW_UNTHROWABLE_EXCEPTIONS (same root cause as #904) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/node-pty#951 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 16, 2026
[darwin] pty_posix_spawn leaks the pty master+slave when posix_spawn fails, and one ptmx fd on every successful spawn Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

microsoft/node-pty#950 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 11, 2026
ConPTY kill path leaks the conin socket, one handle per pty Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

microsoft/node-pty#947 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Windows: conin socket has no 'error' listener, so a failed pty write is an uncaught exception Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/node-pty#942 · Opened Jul 28, 2026
unixTerminal: input is silently queued forever when libuv threadpool completions stop arriving (CustomWriteStream has no watchdog) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/node-pty#939 · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Possible `ExitEvent` leak when `BlockingCall()` returns `napi_closing` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/node-pty#938 · Opened Jul 18, 2026
Feature request: hide the Windows console window for ConPTY child processes Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/node-pty#937 · Opened Jul 12, 2026
npm RFC #868 will block this package's install script by default Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/node-pty#926 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 1, 2026
helperPath replace produces 'app.asar.unpacked.unpacked/…' when caller is itself in app.asar.unpacked → posix_spawnp ENOENT Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/node-pty#923 · 1 comment · Opened May 13, 2026
Request: 1.1.x patch release — `latest` (1.1.0) still ships spawn-helper without exec bit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/node-pty#919 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened May 5, 2026
Expose foreground process pid (tcgetpgrp on master fd) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

microsoft/node-pty#913 · Opened Apr 7, 2026
SIGABRT crash during Electron process exit (ThreadSafeFunction cleanup race) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/node-pty#904 · Opened Mar 27, 2026
Severe output delay (~3.5s) when using useConptyDll: true with PowerShell 7 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/node-pty#894 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Windows: ConoutConnection worker thread prevents Node.js from exiting after kill() Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

microsoft/node-pty#887 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2026
Ensure cols and rows are >= 1 on resize Open

microsoft/node-pty#877 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Remove useConpty boolean Open

breaking-change

microsoft/node-pty#871 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Add per arch packages Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/node-pty#864 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2026
Add prebuilt linux musl binaries to support Alpine linux Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/node-pty#852 · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 30, 2025
Windows crash on Node.js v22 – "Cannot resize a pty that has already exited" Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/node-pty#827 · 15 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2025
“SIGINT - custom in parent and child” is flaky on Linux (possibly need slow CPU to reproduce) Open

bug help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/node-pty#715 · Opened Sep 13, 2024
Improve names of .node files Open

debt

microsoft/node-pty#701 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2024
Platform Difference when launching non-existing Commands Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/node-pty#689 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 23, 2024
Suplementary Groups Open

feature-request

microsoft/node-pty#684 · 1 assignee · Opened May 16, 2024
spawn locks cwd on Windows Open

bug windows

microsoft/node-pty#647 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 8, 2023
encoding null returns Buffer on linux but string on windows! Open

bug windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/node-pty#489 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 14, 2021
provide a way to control argv[0] of the spawned process Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/node-pty#472 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened May 7, 2021
Killing a child process returns exit code `0` instead of `null` Open

enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/node-pty#461 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 24, 2021
Unable to kill pty process on Windows Open

bug help wanted windows

microsoft/node-pty#437 · 12 comments · 7 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 29, 2020
non-context-aware native module Open

enhancement

microsoft/node-pty#405 · 39 comments · 6 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 27, 2020
Consider applying screen size in pty.resize Open

enhancement

microsoft/node-pty#266 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 4, 2019
Feature request: callback to know when the sub-process is started, of why it failed to exec Open

enhancement help wanted

microsoft/node-pty#265 · 15 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 25, 2019
EIO when process ends Open

bug help wanted

microsoft/node-pty#178 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 14, 2018
data events can be fired after exit is fired Open

bug help wanted

microsoft/node-pty#72 · 16 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 3, 2017
Prebuilt binaries Open

enhancement

microsoft/node-pty#46 · 41 comments · 26 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 5, 2017

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