[BRLTTY] Using BrlAPI clients in tmux (wass: Linux console hacking (was: Re: Footsteps towards better accessibility in Linux))

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2026/04/08 at 19:40 +0200]

>It could be using the same non-root approach as libbrlapi: open
>/proc/self/stat and check the tty major/minor of the controlling tty,
>see getControllingTty()

Perhaps by following the chain to the top. stat[6] is the controlling tty for the current process which, inside tmux, is a pty. WINDOWPATH needs to be the controlling tty of tmux itself, which I don't think it exposes.

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