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OQ-43: TtyControl as a Clone trait object

  • Origin: crates/tty/tty-backend.md (the TtyHandle.control field shape); docs/research/alknet-tty/phase-0-findings.md OQ-TTY-01 (the trait- shape open question the local-PTY POC resolved).
  • Status: resolved
  • Door type: One-way (the TtyControl trait shape is part of the TtyBackend API surface — ADR-053), two-way (the concrete Clone newtype mechanism)
  • Priority: medium
  • Resolution: TtyHandle.control is Option<Box<dyn TtyControl + Send + Unpin + Clone>>. The Clone trait-object bound is satisfied via an Arc-backed Clone newtype: a small struct holding Arc<dyn TtyControlInner> where TtyControlInner: Send + Sync has the resize/signal methods, and the public TtyControl newtype implements Clone by cloning the Arc. The local-PTY POC used a concrete PtyControl struct (inherently Clone — it held Arc<Mutex<...>> fields); the trait-object form generalizes it so a backend can produce its own control type without the adapter knowing the concrete shape. The Clone constraint exists because the adapter's control-chunk dispatcher needs to be handed off to the spawned pump task (the POC's session::drive_session clones pty.control for the client→backend pump). See ADR-053 and tty-backend.md.
  • Cross-references: ADR-053, tty-backend.md, /workspace/alknet-tty-poc/src/local_pty.rs (PtyControl)