At the moment the NewPty API is based around the ptsname-style API where you get a pathname in /dev/pts/ that you can open. However, many years ago I added support for getting the peer end of a pty with the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl (allowing you to get the peer end without worrying about the filesystem having a fake /dev/pts).
In principle, you can do this manually today, but it would be nice if this was supported (on Linux at least). #86 adds GetPtyFromFile, maybe GetPtyFiles would be better? (On other operating systems you could just return the non-race-free
At the moment the
NewPtyAPI is based around theptsname-style API where you get a pathname in/dev/pts/that you can open. However, many years ago I added support for getting the peer end of a pty with theTIOCGPTPEERioctl (allowing you to get the peer end without worrying about the filesystem having a fake/dev/pts).In principle, you can do this manually today, but it would be nice if this was supported (on Linux at least). #86 adds
GetPtyFromFile, maybeGetPtyFileswould be better? (On other operating systems you could just return the non-race-free