RFC: PTY process attachment (terminal spawns + local fd handover)#33
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…r re-check The original gate composition was contradictory: gate 2 restricts attach-terminal to the uplink-capability proxy, while gate 3 required the caller to be the process creator (principal AND capsule). The proxy never creates agent processes, and as a run-loop capsule its effective principal is its load-time owner, not the client it bridges — so as written, no caller could ever satisfy both gates. Fix: attach-terminal takes the acting principal as an explicit parameter, following the publish-as trusted-uplink assertion precedent, checked against the process owner. Creator-capsule scoping stays unchanged for every other id-keyed call. Forward-compatible with kernel-owned per-connection binding (astrid#852) replacing the per-call assertion.
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Summary
PTY-backed host-owned processes plus a local fd-handover attachment contract: an uplink (e.g. the CLI) can drive a full-screen interactive program that Astrid spawns, sandboxes, audits, and keeps alive independently of the attached terminal. Builds on the persistent-process tier (rfcs#22); the interactive complement to capsule-contributed CLI verbs (astrid#891).
Contract changes (additive amendment to astrid:[email protected])
spawn-request.terminal: option<terminal-config>— PTY allocation, childsetsid'd with the slave as controlling terminal; merged output feeds the existing ring-buffer machinery, soread-since/write-stdin/watchdrive a PTY process programmatically without any attachment. Valid onspawn-background/spawn-persistentonly.resize(id, rows, cols)— TIOCSWINSZ + SIGWINCH.attach-terminal(id, stream, principal)— host dups the PTY master and passes it over the uplink's Unix-domain stream via SCM_RIGHTS; zero per-keystroke traffic through the bus or WASM. Gated:uplinkcapability, asserted-principal owner check (publish-as trust precedent; forward-compatible with astrid#852 kernel-owned binding), PTY-backed + running, AF_UNIX only. Audited per attach. The rejected alternative (uplink exec'ing binaries directly) and the remote-transport non-goal are written up.Unresolved questions
astrid:processborrowingastrid:net'stcp-streamneeds WIT-level confirmation (alternative: opaque proxy-minted stream token).TERMstays with the existing env mechanism; geometry-onlyterminal-config.