X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:16:22 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Peshansky Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <4786AC35.4030608@upb.de> <4786B436.5030702@upb.de> <20080111095321.GK5097@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080111153027.GA19142@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Jan 11 10:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > So, what was the reason, then, to remove "si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE" from > > > spawn_guts in CVS? Having it makes it much easier to fix run.exe > > > appropriately... > > > > I would be somewhat surprised if this code would have any effect in > > the trunk. The code in question looked like this: > > > > if (!wincap.pty_needs_alloc_console () && newargv.iscui && myself->ctty == -1) > > { > > si.dwFlags |= STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW; > > si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE; > > } > > > > Given that pty_needs_alloc_console() is false only on 9x, and is always > > true on NT, the above code was only executed on 9x. Since 1.7 dropped > > 9x support, the code could go away. Shoot if I missed something. > > You didn't, but I'm confused now. Why would the code that uses execve to > spawn a Cygwin console process NOT pop up a console window? Even if the > parent is compiled with -mwindows, if the app needs a console, one would > be created, wouldn't it? > Igor Ugh. ENOCOFFEE. fhandler_console::need_invisible() takes care of it. So run.exe can be changed to use execve even in CVS HEAD. Sorry for the noise. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." -- Rabbi Hillel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/