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According to Charles Wilson on 8/17/2009 12:42 PM:
> Okay, so here's another idea:
> 
> And in configure_startupinfo():
> 
>     /* foo() is some magic mechanism for determining that the HANDLEs
>      * returned by GetStdHandle() are from a console, and not redirected
>      * or ptys of some sort.

See this thread on the gnulib list, which claims that you can use this
undocumented snippet to decide whether a HANDLE is a console:

> #define IsHandleConsole(h) (((long) (h) & 3) == 3)

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2009-08/msg00065.html

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