zsh is not capable of opening up a zpty instance

[fredrikaverpil]

I've successfully installed zsh and then opened the shell:

sudo apt-get install zsh
/bin/zsh

But then I noticed zsh is not capable of opening up a zpty instance:

zpty -b test cat

zpty: can't open pseudo terminal: exec format error

zpty -w test hi

zpty: no such pty command: test

zpty -r test

zpty: no such pty command: test

zpty -d test

zpty: no such pty command: test

zpty -L

...did not return anything at all.

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I originally created an issue with the zsh pure prompt where this was discussed: sindresorhus/pure#210

[fpqc]

Known issue, WSL does not yet support opening ptys (only tty right now) at all, according to a friend of mine who has done some more research on this than I have.

[russalex]

Marking this one as a dup of #323. We are hard at work on pty support. Unfortunately it is not yet working in our dev branch so no ETA, but we'll make certain to keep people informed.

[fredrikaverpil]

@russalex Sounds great. Perhaps we should close this issue then, as it is a duplicate?
Cheers!

[russalex]

Sounds like a plan to me. Thanks.