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2009/7/2 Julio Costa <costaju AT gmail DOT com>: > HKCU\Console\<argv[0]>\WindowPosition = 0x80008000 Good idea! > Why on Earth are we having this trouble to have an available console > all the time? Is it necessary to redirect the in/out streams? Is it > another thing? From earlier in the thread: > me: >> The proper, yet probably completely impractical solution: compile >> Cygwin programs for the GUI subsystem instead of the console one and >> attach to the parent process' console, if any, with explicit calls at >> program startup. POSIX programs don't use the Win32 console API, so >> there should be no need to always have a console available. Corinna: > The problem is rather that you want to be able to run certain native > applications which refuse to run if no console is allocated. Or they > pop up a console on their own. So be it, I'd be tempted to say, and point people that do insist on running native console at /bin/run. But then I haven't been at the sharp end of a barrage of compatibility complaints. Actually, couldn't spawn_guts() tell whether it's about to execute a console program, and only allocate a hidden console in that case? Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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