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Consider applying screen size in pty.resize

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Since Dec 19, 2025.

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enhancement

The typical IOCTL with TIOCGWINSZ to request and TIOCSWINSZ to change the terminal size support two more settings beside cols and rows - xpixel and ypixel.

Would be nice if node-pty also reports/updates those on platforms that support it. This is used by several emulators to inform a slave application about the current screen size (triggered by a WINCH signal).

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