Support for virtual terminal

[rsp4jack]

PTY was supported since Windows 10: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/creating-a-pseudoconsole-session

[mtkennerly]

Hi! Could you give me some more context about how this feature would help you or if you're currently facing some kind of error?

[rsp4jack]

Think about a service which has an interactive console on standard IO, it would be nice to manipulate it over shawl.

As an example for CLI, shawl console <name> will open PTY to that service.

[mtkennerly]

Gotcha. I would be open to something like this (as long as the maintenance footprint isn't too large), but I don't think I'm prepared to work on it myself. I'll leave this open in case anyone would like to try prototyping it.

Some open questions:

• Does this work if the service is running as a different user?
• Is there some existing program that could open the PTY, so Shawl would only need some minor adjustments to play nice with that program, rather than implementing the full functionality in Shawl itself?