tmux usage in adb shells in Android

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I successfully compiled tmux (current version in the repo) in Android 15 for usage in adb shells on phones running the Android OS.

That works very well -- but only for the root user.

The user shell (this is the user used for adb shells) does not have permissions in SELinux to use sockets in the current Android version.

On phones with root access I can get around that limitation by adding the missing SELinux policies with (for example) the Magisk tool
magiskpoliciy, e.g:

# allow tmux for non-root user
#
# these commands must be executed by the user root
#
magiskpolicy --live "allow shell shell_data_file sock_file { create getattr setattr write unlink }"  
magiskpolicy --live "allow shell devpts chr_file { read write open }"

But on phones without root access that is not possible and tmux does not work in adb shells.

Is it possible to replace the use of sockets with something else?

(see this post on XDA for some details:

https://xdaforums.com/t/guide-how-to-run-long-running-programs-in-an-adb-shell.4709036/
)