X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:20:33 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7 Message-ID: <20090626152033.GO30864@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <416096c60906260239r5bdaf60bw6a9febe885726f55@mail.gmail.com> <20090626102313.GA12963@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60906260503o52ae73ben1140bbbd2db993bb@mail.gmail.com> <20090626121215.GJ30864@calimero.vinschen.de> <416096c60906260541t56687113p9c940d4251f68405@mail.gmail.com> <20090626133618.GA14187@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090626145213.GK30864@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090626150342.GD30070@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090626151439.GN30864@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090626151439.GN30864@calimero.vinschen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-02-20) 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 On Jun 26 17:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 26 11:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >It's an interesting idea, but rather tricky to implement. I assume > > >you will get an ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to attach to a console > > >of another user, and a cygserver service would usually run under SYSTEM. > > >Relying on a service at all doesn't sound overly tempting, either. I'm > > >still hoping for another solution. > > > > FWIW, I can add another failure point to the mix. I spent all day one > > Saturday trying to come up with a workaround. It looks like this is one > > of the many cases where clever Microsoft programmers have worked around > > the clock closing up any loopholes which would allow useful behavior. > > > > Hmm. As I was typing this I had another idea which I don't think I > > tried. I'll look into that this weekend. > > I have a local band-aid using AttachConsole and ShowWindowAsync. If > your idea doesn't work, we could at least use this pathetic workaround. Apart from that, I had no luck toying around with creating another desktop either. And maybe, just maybe, Microsoft actually provides some workaround. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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