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The updater stopped the daemon and started the Inno installer the moment
the daemon's endpoint disappeared — but the endpoint going away is not
the same event as the images being released. The ConPTY hosts
(OpenConsole.exe) are the daemon's children, not the shells', so the
per-pane kill never reached them, and the daemon's exit(0) skipped every
destructor that would have closed them; they kept the installed
OpenConsole.exe open for seconds after --stop-daemon returned. Silent
Setup then hit the lock, took the suppressed dialog's default (Abort),
and the updater's recovery relaunched the old build — "updated,
restarted, still the old version". A daemon that died without cleaning
up made it permanent: its orphaned hosts survive indefinitely, which is
the DeleteFile-code-5 users hit even after "closing everything".
Reproduced both shapes in isolation before fixing: with a pane open,
--stop-daemon returned ~1s in while OpenConsole.exe stayed locked for
another ~1.4s; after taskkill on the daemon, the orphaned host held the
lock forever.
The shutdown now finishes what it starts, at every layer that can be
the last one standing:
* The daemon reaps its remaining descendants and waits for them
before exiting, while the endpoint — the signal stop() watches —
is still up.
* stop() reads the pidfile before asking, and waits for that process
to actually exit after the endpoint goes, not just stop listening.
* The recorded-daemon reap waits for the images to be released
instead of returning on the async TerminateProcess.
* stop_for_update(dir) — reached via --stop-daemon
--update-install-dir, which PrepareToInstall and the portable
updater now pass — also terminates anything still running from the
installation directory (the orphan case no pidfile can name) and
only returns once the .exe/.dll images there open for writing,
naming the holdouts in the error if they never do.
* The updater runs that clearing itself before invoking Setup, so a
directory that cannot be cleared fails with a cause in update.log
and relaunches the previous build, instead of Inno's bare
"DeleteFile failed; code 5".
The update dialog on Windows also told a macOS truth — "the background
service keeps running, so whatever is open in your panes survives".
Windows cannot replace a running daemon's image, so its install path
stops the service; the dialog now says so.
tty7
A terminal workbench: persistent sessions, remote work, agents.
Pure Rust · GPU rendering on Zed's gpui · VT core from Alacritty
English · 简体中文
Why
- Performance — ~2× the throughput of Alacritty, Ghostty, or Kitty (benchmarks)
- Persistent sessions — quit or reboot; your shells and supported agent sessions keep running, no tmux
- Editor-grade input — suggestions, completion, highlighting, history search
- Remote development — files, repos, panes, and git data stay on the remote machine
- Native SSH — profiles, SFTP, port forwarding, and jump hosts
- Agent-aware — Claude Code, Codex & co.: status, notifications, git context
- CLI + Skills — agents create panes, run commands, and inspect output
Install
Native builds for each platform on Releases:
| macOS | …-macos-arm64.dmg · …-x86_64.dmg |
drag into Applications |
| Windows | …-setup.exe · portable ….zip |
|
| Linux | …-x86_64.AppImage |
chmod +x and run — X11/Wayland libraries bundled |
What's inside
| Editor-grade input | ghost suggestions from history · explained tab completion · syntax highlighting · multi-line editing · click places the caret · ⌃ R fuzzy history |
| Window | tabs & splits · ⌘ P palette · ⌘ F scrollback search · nine themes · IME |
| Agent-aware | per-pane detection (~17 CLIs): status dot · notifications · branch + diff · resume after reboot · tray icon when input is needed |
| Remote workspaces | remote files, repos, changes, diffs, worktrees, tabs, and panes · reconnect from any client and continue where you left off |
| CLI + Skills | bundled tty7 CLI · agent skill · pane/workspace control · real PTY commands · output, process, port, and agent status |
| SSH | native russh stack: profiles with keychain secrets · SFTP panel · port forwarding · jump hosts · one-time, unprivileged tty7-server install |
Terminal and keybinding reference: docs/features.md. The agent-facing CLI interface is documented in skills/tty7/SKILL.md.
Install the skill with:
npx skills add l0ng-ai/tty7
Benchmarks
Same machine, same day, same 155×40 grid — Apple M1 Pro, macOS 26.3.1, five-run averages (2026-07-04):
| tty7 | Alacritty | Ghostty | Kitty | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Plaintext I/O — 11 MB cat (lower = better) |
95 ms | 239 ms | 179 ms | 185 ms |
| DOOM-fire frame rate (higher = better) | 888 fps | 485 fps | 552 fps | 617 fps |
| Cold-launch memory | 116 MB¹ | 105 MB | 128 MB | 130 MB |
¹ GUI 105 MB + the persistent server 11 MB.
Methodology and one-command reproduction: scripts/bench/.
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