stderr?

[jamesrwhite]

stderr?

[chjj]

Terminals don't work this way. A pty fd is, conceptually speaking, basically just a socket. There is no stdin/stdout/stderr. The parent process creates a master/slave fd pair, the parent keeps the master pty fd, and the forked child keeps the slave fd - the child then dup2's the slave fd onto stdin/stdout/stderr, so there's no way to tell stdout/stderr apart when you read from the master fd. (You can see openpty and forkpty implemented in src/unix/pty.cc for a better look at how this works).

I included .stdout and .stderr properties on the Terminal object just because that's what everyone is used to from the child_process module. People might be inclined to use them out of habit, but they're purely aesthetic and don't serve any real purpose.

[jamesrwhite]

Ah I see, that makes a lot more sense now. Thank you for clarifying :)