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Adds internal/console, the local terminal that the client puts into raw mode: raw VT input as UTF-8, remote output written back, the window size and resize events, and a Close that unblocks a pending Read. The session layer (next phase) will drive it; nothing imports it yet.

Unix (console_unix.go, build tag unix): opens /dev/tty as its own file description so stdin is never touched and Close can unblock a pending Read, does every ioctl through SyscallConn (never Fd()), gets the size from TIOCGWINSZ and resize events from SIGWINCH. Uses golang.org/x/term for raw mode.

Windows (console_windows.go, syscall_windows.go): ReadConsoleW/WriteConsoleW with VT input and output modes, UTF-16/UTF-8 codecs (utf16.go) that carry a surrogate pair split across reads and a UTF-8 sequence split across writes, writes chunked to at most 8192 UTF-16 units without ending a chunk on a high surrogate, polled resizes, and OnBreak for Ctrl+Break. Close wakes a blocked ReadConsoleW by injecting an Enter key record (works in raw and line-input mode), flushes pending input, waits for an in-flight Write and restores the modes. WriteConsoleInputW, SetConsoleCtrlHandler and INPUT_RECORD are declared locally because x/sys/windows v0.48.0 lacks them.

Same contract on both platforms: Close always returns the console to the modes captured at Open, whether or not MakeRaw ran, so a password prompt interrupted between Open and MakeRaw cannot leave echo off. Close is idempotent (a second Close waits for the first and returns nil). After Close, Write, MakeRaw and Size return an error wrapping os.ErrClosed and a restore func returns nil. Resizes takes its baseline when it is called, ends when its context ends or the console is closed, and never yields after its context ended. The docs state the remaining platform differences explicitly (Unix keeps unread input as OpenSSH does; Windows discards it).

Also: x/sys becomes a direct dependency, x/term v0.46.0 is added, and AGENTS.md gets a layout row. The package builds for every target including js/wasm and wasip1/wasm (only the portable console.go and utf16.go build there).

Test Plan

  • go test ./... -race (Linux; the console tests run against a real pty opened through /dev/ptmx, repeated with -count=20 to -count=50 for the timing-sensitive tests)
  • Windows tests cross-compiled and run on a Windows 11 VM under ssh -tt (ConPTY), with and without a console; console-free tests use per-Console seams for the read, write, inject and mode calls
  • Mutation checks for the new tests: each removes or inverts the production line the test pins and confirms the test fails on an assertion (Linux locally, Windows on the VM)
  • go vet for linux, windows, darwin, js/wasm and wasip1/wasm; CGO_ENABLED=0 builds for windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64; golangci-lint run on linux and windows; go fix -diff; ruleguard build
  • Desktop console hosts (classic conhost and Windows Terminal) not yet tested; macOS has build, vet and lint only, and whether Close unblocks a pending Read there is not yet measured

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added cross-platform terminal support for raw-mode input and output, terminal sizing, and resize notifications.
    • Terminal input and output support UTF-8, including characters split across reads or writes.
    • Terminal shutdown restores the original settings and unblocks pending reads.
    • On Windows, Ctrl+Break can trigger a registered callback.
  • Documentation
    • Expanded console documentation with terminal behavior and platform-specific details.

Add the console package skeleton (Size, ErrNotTerminal) and the
platform-neutral codecs the Windows console needs: a UTF-16 decoder that
holds a high surrogate across reads, a UTF-8 encoder that holds an
incomplete trailing sequence across writes, and a chunker that bounds
console writes without separating a surrogate pair.

Verified with table tests, split-equivalence fuzzing against the
standard library, and the full gate on linux and GOOS=windows.

Also add internal/console to the AGENTS.md Layout table.
Open /dev/tty rather than using stdin, so the non-blocking mode Go sets
(which lets Close unblock a pending Read) never leaks into the parent
shell, even on a crash. Raw mode, restore, window size and resize
events all go through SyscallConn; Fd is never called. Open records the
terminal state and restore returns to it, so a password prompt
interrupted between Open and MakeRaw cannot leave echo off; a missing
controlling terminal reports ErrNotTerminal. Close restores the mode
before closing. Resizes measures changes against the size when it is
called, so a resize cannot slip between the initial Size and the loop.

Verified with pty tests (no extra module: the pty is opened with x/sys
ioctls), 20 repeated runs of the timing-sensitive tests under -race,
sabotage checks, and the full gate including darwin vet and lint.
SIGWINCH is ignored by default, so a resize between the Resizes(ctx)
call and the caller starting to range over its result was dropped:
Notify only registered once ranging began. Resizes now checks the
current size once, right after Notify registers, so a change already
sitting there when iteration starts is still yielded instead of
waiting for the next signal.

Also makes TestCloseRestoresAndUnblocksRead prove the Read was really
pending (SetReadDeadline fails with os.ErrNoDeadline on a non-pollable
fd, so a blocking-mode regression would now be caught deterministically
instead of by a goroutine race), and rewords the Console, Read and
Close doc comments so the Close-unblocks-a-pending-Read claim is stated
as measured on Linux, not yet measured on darwin.

Verified with go test -race ./internal/console/..., 20 repeated runs of
the resize and close tests under -race, a sabotage check on the new
post-Notify check (removed, TestResizesYieldsChangeBeforeRangingStarts
fails with "Resizes never yielded the size that changed before ranging
started", restored), and the full scoped gate including darwin and
windows vet, cross-compiled builds, golangci-lint on both platforms,
go fix -diff and the ruleguard build.
Read and Write use ReadConsoleW and WriteConsoleW with the UTF-16
codecs, so code pages are never touched and split characters survive.
MakeRaw sets VT input and output modes (falling back without
DISABLE_NEWLINE_AUTO_RETURN on older hosts). Resizes polls the window
every 200 ms because ReadConsole always filters resize events. Writes
are chunked to 8192 UTF-16 units for classic conhost. Close is
idempotent: it wakes a blocked ReadConsoleW by injecting a key-down
record (re-injected until the reader returns), then flushes the input
buffer so nothing reaches the parent shell, and restores the Open-time
modes. OnBreak installs a SetConsoleCtrlHandler for Ctrl+Break;
OnBreak(nil) unregisters. WriteConsoleInputW, SetConsoleCtrlHandler
and INPUT_RECORD are declared locally because x/sys/windows does not
provide them.

Verified on the win11-qa VM under a ConPTY (5 runs, with and without a
console), struct layout checked against the Windows sizes, and the full
gate for GOOS=windows amd64 and arm64.
…sts fail

Close woke a blocked ReadConsoleW by injecting a space, which cannot
complete a read in line mode: ReadConsole returns only on a carriage
return there (SetConsoleMode, ENABLE_LINE_INPUT). Line mode is reached
when restore runs before Close or MakeRaw was never called. The wake
record is now an Enter key-down (VK_RETURN, scan code 0x1C, '\r'),
which completes the read in raw and line mode alike. A new test blocks
a Read in both line-mode cases and checks Close unblocks it and leaves
no input events; with the space record both cases fail.

TestWriteSplitUTF8 now asserts the UTF-16 units each partial Write
sends, and TestWriteLarge records every WriteConsoleW chunk through a
writeConsole seam and checks the size cap, the surrogate boundary and
that the chunks reassemble the input. Before, dropping the encode step
or the encoder carry left both tests green.

Also: the Close doc gives the sourced reason for re-injecting and says
a concurrent second Close can return before the first has restored;
the DISABLE_NEWLINE_AUTO_RETURN fallback comment no longer makes an
unsourced claim; ctrlHandler drops an unreachable nil check; and
TestRestoreReturnsToOpenBaseline restores the Open-time mode on exit.

Verified on the win11-qa VM under ConPTY (5 runs with a console, one
without), sabotage of each new assertion on the VM, and the scoped gate
for GOOS=windows amd64 and arm64.
…orms

Close now always returns the terminal to the Open baseline, also when
MakeRaw never ran, so a mode an interrupted ssh password prompt left
behind (echo off) is undone before et exits. restore is repeatable and
state-checked on both platforms: it reads the current mode and sets the
baseline only where it differs, so it never touches a terminal already at
the baseline (no SIGTTOU from a background job on Unix) and MakeRaw after
restore is still undone by Close.

Close is idempotent and a second Close waits for the first to finish
before returning nil: on Unix Close holds the mutex for its whole body, on
Windows later callers wait on a done channel. After Close, MakeRaw, Write
and Size return errors wrapping os.ErrClosed and a restore func returns
nil without touching the console. On Windows, Write holds a writer lock
for its whole call and Close takes it before restoring, so a Write in
flight finishes under the modes it started with; wakeAndWait keeps
injecting after a failed wake record instead of abandoning the wait.

Windows gains a newConsole constructor and per-Console injectFn and
writeFn fields (nil means the real call) so console-free tests can drive
Close.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; the
Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt (count 3) and
without a console (count 3); vet on linux, windows and darwin;
golangci-lint on linux and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and
darwin/arm64 builds. Every new or changed test was mutation-checked
against the production line it guards, Windows mutants on the VM: 27
killed of 27.
… docs

Add tests that pin how restore interacts with Close. On Unix a restore
func run concurrently with Close must return nil: it runs under the
mutex Close holds, so it never reaches a closed descriptor. On Windows a
Close that starts while a restore func is setting modes must wait for
it, so the two never set console modes at the same time.

Windows restore now reads and sets modes through per-Console getModeFn
and setModeFn fields (nil means the real call), so a console-free test
can check that Close sets a baseline mode only where the current mode
differs from it.

Docs: the Unix Console type states the same concurrency rules as the
Windows one; both Write docs state the platform difference (on Unix a
Write racing Close can reach the terminal until the descriptor closes,
on Windows Write writes nothing once Close has started); the Windows
Close doc says its wait for an in-flight Write has no bound and that
whether WriteConsoleW can stall is unmeasured.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; the
Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt (count 3) and
without a console (count 3); vet on linux, windows and darwin;
golangci-lint on linux and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and
darwin/arm64 builds. New tests mutation-checked: 4 killed of 4 (Windows
mutants on the VM).
The Windows Read and Write paths only ran against a real console, so go
test without one exercised neither. The package-level writeConsole var is
replaced by the per-Console writeFn field and Read gains a readFn field;
nil means the real ReadConsoleW or WriteConsoleW call.

Write tests now run without a console through a scripted fake: large
writes stay within writeUnits per call and never end a chunk on a high
surrogate, a UTF-8 sequence split across Writes reaches the console
once complete, and full, partial, zero-unit, failed and impossible
results are each handled. Write now rejects a count larger than the
chunk instead of slicing past it. The Write doc records that a partial
write can split a surrogate pair only if the console itself reports
half a pair written; that is unmeasured and Write does not back off.

Read tests use a scripted fake that fails when its script runs out: a
surrogate pair split across two console reads decodes to one UTF-8
sequence, a device attributes reply and a cursor position report pass
through byte for byte, a small buffer leaves the rest for the next Read,
and a read of zero units is retried.

On a real console the tests now also check that the output mode is
restored by restore and by Close, that Close flushes typeahead nobody
read, and every KEY_EVENT_RECORD field offset and size. openConsole
closes the console at test end and reports a Close error, and the 100 ms
upper bound on a second Close is gone.

Measured on the win11-qa VM under ConPTY (ssh -tt), 2026-09-25: a
consumed Ctrl+Break (GenerateConsoleCtrlEvent) leaves a pending
ReadConsoleW pending in raw and in line mode, so Read is unchanged; the
measurement is recorded in the Read doc.

Verified: the Windows test binary on the VM under ssh -tt and without a
console (count 3 each); go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on
Linux; vet on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint on linux and
windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64 builds. Mutation
runs on the VM: 19 killed of 19.
…se path

Resizes could still yield a size after its context ended: the check made
right after SIGWINCH registration yields without looking at ctx, and the
loop's select picks at random when a signal (or, on Windows, a tick) and
the cancellation are both ready. Both platforms now check ctx.Err before
each yield, and the Resizes docs say nothing is yielded once ctx has
ended.

Tests: TestResizesStopsAfterCancel changes the size and cancels before
ranging, so the post-registration check sees a change it must not yield;
TestResizesStopsWhenConsumerBreaks breaks out of the range with ctx
still live, once at the post-registration yield and once at the signal
loop yield, and requires the range statement to finish. The bare waits
on the Resizes consumers are bounded by waitTimeout. The Close test now
builds its Console through open, the path Open takes, skipping if the
process is a session leader (open does not pass O_NOCTTY), and its
SetReadDeadline comment says what it proves. A new test,
TestOpenRejectsNonTerminalTTYPath, pins that a tty path which opens but
is not a terminal gives ErrNotTerminal.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; the
Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt and without a
console (count 3 each); vet on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint
on linux and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64
builds. Mutation runs: 6 killed of 7; the survivor is the in-loop ctx
check, which no deterministic test can drive (select order is random).
…n errors

Windows Open now wraps every failure with ErrNotTerminal and keeps the
cause: GetStdHandle errors and a GetConsoleMode failure on either handle
give an error satisfying errors.Is(err, ErrNotTerminal) that also wraps
the Windows error. Before, a GetConsoleMode failure returned the bare
sentinel and GetStdHandle errors did not satisfy ErrNotTerminal at all.
MakeRaw joins the input-mode rollback error to the output-mode error
instead of discarding it.

Docs: OnBreak(nil) now says Ctrl+Break goes to the Go runtime's handler,
which delivers it as os.Interrupt only if the program called
signal.Notify for it and otherwise passes it to the default handler that
ends the process (runtime/os_windows.go ctrlHandler, go1.27.0). The
code-page claim and the handler-thread claim cite the Microsoft docs
(ReadConsole and WriteConsole remarks; HandlerRoutine). INPUT_RECORD's
KEY_EVENT_RECORD is one of the union's largest members. The Unix Open
doc says it opens the controlling terminal /dev/tty after checking stdin
and stdout, and both Open docs describe the intended caller instead of
cmd/et. controlFile and isTerminal gain doc comments. The Windows Read
doc says Once Close has started and that a generated Ctrl+Break was
measured while a physical key press is not; the Write doc says a chunk
never ends on a high surrogate.

Tests: TestOpenWithoutConsoleKeepsCause checks the ErrNotTerminal wrap
and the kept cause where stdin is not a console. The Linux test teardown
reports close errors, ignoring only os.ErrClosed from the deliberate
second close of a pty slave a Console already closed.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; the
Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt and without a
console (count 3 each), and with stdout redirected for the stdout
branch; vet on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint on linux and
windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64 builds. Mutation
runs on the VM: 3 killed of 3.
…test

TestCloseWaitsForInFlightWrite ran on a zero-handle Console whose mode
calls always failed, so Close never set a mode and the test could not see
whether Close restored the console before an in-flight Write finished;
a Close that restored first and only then waited for the writer would
have passed.

The test now fakes the mode calls: getModeFn reports a mode that differs
from both baselines, so Close really sets each, and setModeFn fails the
test if a Write is still inside its console call. It also fails if Close
set no mode at all, and its comment claims only what it checks.

Verified on the win11-qa VM: the test passes without a console and
under ssh -tt (count 3); a Close that restores before taking the writer
lock fails on the new check, and dropping the writer lock in Close or in
Write still fails (3 killed of 3). Scoped gate: vet on linux, windows
and darwin, golangci-lint on linux and windows, CGO_ENABLED=0
windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64 builds.
Since Size returns an error wrapping os.ErrClosed after Close, a Resizes
range whose ctx outlived Close kept running and yielded nothing: on
Windows it kept polling every 200 ms, on Unix it kept its SIGWINCH
registration. Both loops now end the sequence when Size reports a closed
Console, as does the Unix check made right after SIGWINCH registration.
Other Size errors still leave the sequence running. Both Resizes docs say
the sequence ends when ctx ends or the Console is closed, and state when
each platform notices the Close: Windows at the next poll, Unix at the
start of ranging or the next SIGWINCH.

Tests: on Linux, TestResizesEndsAfterClose closes the Console before
ranging, and while the signal loop waits, then delivers SIGWINCH; the
range must end with ctx still live. On Windows, without a console, a
closed Console's range ends, and TestResizesKeepsPollingOnOtherErrors
checks that a Size error other than a Close does not end it.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; the
Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt and without a
console (count 3 each); vet on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint
on linux and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64
builds. Mutation runs: 4 killed of 5; the survivor is returning on any
Size error on Unix, which no test can tell apart because TIOCGWINSZ does
not fail on an open pty (the Windows equivalent is killed).
Wave-added paths had no test that could fail. TestCloseReportsRestoreError
makes the Unix restore fail through the setState seam and requires Close
to return that error and a second Close to return nil.
TestSizeConcurrentWithClose runs Size in a loop while Close runs and
requires every error to wrap os.ErrClosed, which pins that Size reads the
terminal under the lock Close holds. On Windows, the
TestRestoreSkipsUnchangedMode test gains a set_fails case: a failed mode
set reaches Close's caller.

Test hygiene: fakeModes fails the test and returns an error when its
script runs out instead of panicking on an empty slice; the Windows tests
share one named waitTimeout bound instead of literal 5 s waits; and the
cleanups that reset the input mode report a SetConsoleMode failure.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; the
Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt and without a
console (count 3 each); vet on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint
on linux and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64
builds. Mutation runs: a restore that swallows its error, Size without
the lock (under -race), Size without its closed check, and a Windows
restore that drops the set error each fail: 4 killed of 4.
TestCloseReportsRestoreError checked that a failed restore reaches the
caller but not that Close still closes the terminal afterwards, so a
Close that returned early on the restore error and left the descriptor
open would have passed. The test now requires a Write after that Close
to fail with an error wrapping os.ErrClosed.

The TestSizeConcurrentWithClose comment now says what the test checks:
under -race it catches a Size that reads the closed flag without the
lock, while a Size that drops the lock before its ioctl is caught only
when the ioctl lands after the close.

Verified: go test -race -count=20 ./internal/console/ on Linux; a Close
that returns on the restore error before closing the terminal fails the
new assertion; vet on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint on linux
and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0 windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64 builds.
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The change adds an internal console package with Unix and Windows implementations. It provides raw mode, UTF-8 input and output, terminal sizing, resize iteration, and close behavior. Shared conversion helpers and platform-specific tests cover these operations.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared contract and Unix console
internal/console/console.go, internal/console/console_unix.go, internal/console/console_linux_test.go, internal/console/pty_linux_test.go, go.mod, AGENTS.md
Adds the shared Size type and ErrNotTerminal error, plus Unix terminal opening, raw-mode restoration, I/O, sizing, resize iteration, and close behavior. Linux tests exercise terminal state, I/O, closure, and resize handling. The package layout and module requirements are updated.
UTF-8 and UTF-16 conversion
internal/console/utf16.go, internal/console/utf16_test.go
Adds stateful UTF-8 and UTF-16 conversion and chunk sizing that preserves surrogate pairs. Tests cover malformed input, split sequences, and chunk boundaries.
Windows console I/O and sizing
internal/console/console_windows.go, internal/console/console_windows_test.go
Adds Windows console setup, raw modes, UTF-8 reads and writes, visible-size reporting, and resize polling. Tests cover input and output conversion, partial writes, sizing, and resize termination.
Windows close and Ctrl+Break handling
internal/console/console_windows.go, internal/console/syscall_windows.go, internal/console/console_windows_test.go
Adds close-time reader wake-up, waiting for active operations, baseline mode restoration, input-record injection, and Ctrl+Break handling. Tests cover close behavior, mode restoration, and control-handler behavior.

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  Application->>Console: MakeRaw()
  Console->>Terminal: Set raw terminal modes
  Application->>Console: Read(), Write(), or Size()
  Console->>Terminal: Perform I/O or query dimensions
  Terminal-->>Console: Input, write result, or dimensions
  Application->>Console: Close()
  Console->>Terminal: Restore baseline state and close
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What changed in this PR

Adds a cross-platform raw console package for Unix and Windows, including terminal I/O, resizing, Unicode conversion, and cleanup.

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  • Implements Unix and Windows console behavior.
  • Adds UTF-8/UTF-16 codecs and platform tests.
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File Summary
internal/​console/​utf16.go Unicode conversion and chunking helpers.
internal/​console/​utf16_test.go Codec and chunking tests.
internal/​console/​syscall_windows.go Windows API declarations.
internal/​console/​pty_linux_test.go Linux PTY test helpers.
internal/​console/​console.go Shared console types and errors.
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internal/​console/​console_windows_test.go Windows console behavior tests.
internal/​console/​console_unix.go Unix console implementation; moderate finding that closing does not wake Resizes.
internal/​console/​console_linux_test.go Unix console behavior tests.
go.sum Dependency checksums.
go.mod Direct console dependencies.
AGENTS.md Documents the console package.

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… Windows Size

Windows Read with an empty p and nothing buffered still entered
ReadConsoleW and could block until input arrived. It now returns 0, nil
at once after the closing check, without reading the console.

Windows Size released the Console lock after its closing check and only
then queried the screen buffer, so a Size could succeed after Close had
started, against its doc. It now holds the lock through the query, as the
Unix Size does. Lock order is unchanged: Size takes only the Console
lock; Close takes it to start, then the writer lock and the Console lock
again. The query goes through a per-Console sizeFn field (nil means
GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo) so a test can park it.

TestOpenAcceptsTerminal now opens through openThroughPath, so a test
process that is a session leader skips instead of adopting the pty as its
controlling terminal.

Tests without a console: TestReadEmptyBufferReturnsAtOnce fails if Read
reads the console for an empty buffer; TestSizeHoldsLockAgainstClose
parks a Size query, starts Close, and requires Close neither to set a
mode nor to return until the query finishes, then Size after Close to
report os.ErrClosed.

Verified: the Windows test binary on the win11-qa VM under ssh -tt and
without a console (count 3 each); mutation runs on the VM (dropping the
empty-read return, and releasing the lock before the size query) both
fail; go test ./... -race and go test -race -count=20
./internal/console/ on Linux; vet on linux, windows, darwin, js/wasm and
wasip1/wasm; golangci-lint on linux and windows; CGO_ENABLED=0
windows/arm64 and darwin/arm64 builds.

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🟠 Major · Cancel the reader thread before Close returns after a wake timeout. · console_windows.go:421-470

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Cancel the reader thread before Close returns after a wake timeout.

When WriteConsoleInputW cannot inject the wake record, wakeAndWait times out while windows.ReadConsole remains blocked. CancelSynchronousIo is the Windows API for this synchronous read, but it requires a real handle to the thread performing the read. Console stores only the standard handles and a reading flag, so Close cannot cancel that operation.

Close then flushes input, restores modes, closes done, and returns an error. A later Close returns nil, so the caller has no package operation that can join or cancel the blocked reader. This can leave a reader goroutine and pending console read in a long-lived supported workflow, and it violates TestCloseUnblocksRead.

Keep the reader on an owned OS thread, retain its real thread handle, call CancelSynchronousIo from Close, and wait for exited before completing cleanup. Add a cancellation test hook so the timeout and cancellation paths are testable.

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In `@internal/console/console_windows.go` around lines 421 - 470, Update Console’s
reader lifecycle so the read runs on an owned OS thread and retains that
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@coderabbitai On the outside-diff item about cancelling the reader thread after a wake timeout (console_windows.go Close): I'm not taking this in this PR.

The case needs WriteConsoleInputW to fail, or another process attached to the same console to consume every injected wake record for the full second. That is the documented failure path: Close returns a non-nil error, its doc says the reader may still be blocked in ReadConsoleW, and the session layer then stops waiting for the reader instead of joining it, which is the behaviour the design already accepts on Windows.

CancelSynchronousIo does unblock a pending ReadConsoleW under ConPTY in my own measurement, but Microsoft does not document cancelling synchronous console reads, and it would need the read pinned to an owned OS thread with a duplicated real thread handle. That is a structural change to the reader lifecycle that doesn't belong in a review-cycle fix, so I'm tracking it separately as a possible fallback after the injected wake times out.

TestCloseUnblocksRead is not violated: it covers the wake path, which is what unblocks the reader, and it passes on the Windows host.

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@tphakala, thanks for clarifying. I checked Close and TestCloseUnblocksRead. The code documents the timeout path and returns an error if the reader does not return. The test covers the successful wake path, not a guarantee that every pending read terminates. I withdraw the cancellation suggestion for this PR.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for the possible CancelSynchronousIo fallback?


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Learning: In `internal/console/console_windows.go`, Windows `Console.Close` retries injected Enter wake records for up to one second. If the reader does not return, `Close` returns an error and a pending `ReadConsoleW` may remain blocked. `TestCloseUnblocksRead` covers the successful wake path. Pinning the read to an owned OS thread and using `CancelSynchronousIo` is a possible future fallback, not a requirement for this PR.

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