Provide API to access Console name (e.g. /dev/cons1) from a PseudoConsole handle #18214

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opened 2026-01-31 06:07:06 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @sullivan-sean on GitHub (Aug 20, 2022).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

It would be convenient to provide an API to access the name of a console from a handle (e.g. /dev/cons1) similar to the ttyname function on unix (https://linux.die.net/man/3/ttyname_r) for cross-platform applications that reference tty name.

I couldn't find any documented way of doing this or any similar issues, but apologies if there is an existing solution or duplicate issue.

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Reference: starred/terminal#18214