Escaped config strings (ghostty_os::osbytes) kept reaching OS
boundaries undecoded, and decoding was occasionally applied to plain
text. The root cause was that both were plain `String`s. Now:
- `EncodedOs` is a newtype (no Display/AsRef<Path>) that decodes only
via to_os/to_path/to_bytes/to_wide; plain text enters via
from_plain_text. OS helpers (env, home, xdg, passwd, resources dir,
path expansion), config::Path, WorkingDirectory, theme/file_load/edit
paths, terminal pwd, OpenUrl/Pwd actions and termio cwd use it, so the
compiler forces decoding at every boundary. os::open takes &OsStr.
Config output is unchanged.
Fixes all rows of docs/rewrite/notes/review-rv5-codex.md (final-Z7.md):
screen-file copy; regex/OSC 8 URLs no longer decoded (regression);
lossless Windows WTF-8/WTF-16 for args, env and CreateProcessW; Windows
resources dir/TERMINFO; color OSC request lists and X11 color lookup no
longer allocate globally (C zero-allocation test extended); macOS Mach
handler resumes all threads before KERN_FAILURE (hang regression) and
SIGABRT minidumps go through the exception thread; plus open-config,
background images, crash dir, ssh cache, exe dir/PATH, fontconfig
filenames, file links, kitty TMPDIR, .hushlogin and benchmark paths.
The typing also surfaced and fixed gtk-custom-css, bell audio, bash
HISTFILE, OSC 52 writes and the C config getters.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace (3376 passed)
- just check-macos (both), just check-windows, just check-wasm
- diff <(ghostty-rs +show-config --default --docs) \
<(ghostty +show-config --default --docs)
Resolves the 13 rows still partial in docs/rewrite/notes/review-rv4-
codex.md (details in final-Z5.md):
- Escaped config strings are decoded to raw bytes at every OS boundary:
Flatpak cwd/argv to D-Bus, screen-file paths, the default config
template, GHOSTTY_RESOURCES_DIR/TERMINFO/shell integration/
bindtextdomain consumers, custom shader loading, list-themes hyperlinks.
- osbytes escapes literal U+FDD0 on non-Unix too (bijective everywhere);
the GTK paste dialog only decodes text that was actually encoded.
- shadertoy: whole-array uses of iChannelTime rebuild a plain float[4]
from the std140-padded members (naga-validated, MSL offsets checked).
- libghostty-vt: the OSC parser holds caller-allocated storage inline
and command payloads borrow from it, so ghostty_osc_end performs no
global allocations (verified from Rust and C).
- crash: aarch64 Linux minidump context fixed; macOS fatal signals record
siginfo, registers and a fault-safe stack walk.
- tripwire: selectionString map allocation-failure cleanup test ported.
- libghostty-vt emits the versioned soname libghostty-vt.so.0 at build
time (no patchelf needed at install).
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace (3342 passed)
- just check-macos; just check-macos x86_64-apple-darwin;
just check-windows; just check-wasm
- cargo check --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu -p ghostty-crash
Zig treats paths, arguments and environment values as byte slices; the
port converted them lossily in many places. Now (final-Z1.md):
- argv, env (incl. present non-UTF-8 values), HOME, PATH lookup,
passwd, resources dir, TMPDIR, cgroup, config path canonicalization,
+validate-config, +list-themes and Zig-string escapes (\xFF) keep raw
bytes. String-based config values carry bytes via ghostty_os::osbytes,
a bijective escape (noncharacter U+FDD0 + byte) that leaves all valid
UTF-8 - including Nerd Font private-use icons - unchanged.
- os/file rlimit fallbacks exist on all targets.
- i18n locale canonicalization is an exact port of libintl's tables
(e.g. pa-Guru -> pa_IN).
- New ghostty-build-info crate is the single source of version, channel,
commit and build mode for all consumers.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-os -p ghostty-config -p ghostty-cli
(incl. randomized osbytes round-trip property tests)
Ports the macOS-specific Zig code behind cfg(target_os = "macos"):
- renderer: a GraphicsApi trait with generic::Renderer<G>; Metal backend
(all renderer/metal/* files, shaders.metal verbatim, runtime library
compile, IOSurface layer, CVDisplayLink), shadertoy -> MSL via naga;
OpenGL remains the backend elsewhere.
- font: CoreText face, shaper and discovery with build.rs backend
selection (coretext default; coretext-freetype / coretext-harfbuzz /
coretext-noshape features), no fontconfig/freetype/harfbuzz on Apple.
- input: KeymapDarwin via UCKeyTranslate, option-as-alt, mac keycodes.
- os: macos, mach, cf_release_thread, NSProcessInfo args and macOS
branches; config: macOS defaults, keybinds, Application Support paths.
- termio/core: login(1) wrapping, openpty/execvpe, Darwin child exit
handling, os_log logging.
Compile-checked for aarch64/x86_64-apple-darwin (clippy -D warnings
clean) using the cross setup in docs/rewrite/notes/macos-M1.md; cannot
run here. The embedded runtime/C API (embedded.zig) is the next step.
Also includes the cross-platform integration edits shared by the crash,
verification, Windows and macOS work (Cargo target-gating, thread
crash-context hooks, apprt-gtk surface/IME refactor, termio/os cfg
gates), a cfg fix so ghostty-config builds on wasm32, and an allow for
the intentional recursion in the crash overflow test.
Test Plan:
- cargo test --workspace (3224 passed)
- cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
- cargo check --target aarch64-apple-darwin -p ghostty-renderer (with
the documented cross env)
Ports ZIG/src/os for Linux into ghostty-os: XDG dirs, home dir, hostname,
env/PATH helpers, passwd lookup (via nix), shell detection, resources
dir discovery, string encodings (printf-q, URL percent), systemd
sd_notify, i18n via gettextrs, xdg-open, desktop/cgroup/kernel info,
temp dirs, URI parsing (port of std.Uri incl. Ghostty's extra options),
and a zbus-based Flatpak HostCommand implementation.
The crate stays free of unsafe. Consequences, all tracked as
TODO(integration) in docs/rewrite/notes/ghostty-os.md:
- locale::ensure_locale is a no-op (setlocale/setenv are unsafe; GTK
calls setlocale itself); setenv/unsetenv are not exposed.
- passwd's Flatpak branch needs the termio pty and falls back to the
sandbox entry for now.
- FlatpakHostCommand's D-Bus path is untested (no portal here).
Intentional fix: a leading '@' in NOTIFY_SOCKET is treated as an
abstract socket.
macOS/Windows/WASM modules are out of scope.
Test Plan:
- cargo test -p ghostty-os (88 tests)
- cargo clippy -p ghostty-os --all-targets -- -D warnings
ddidderr