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Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:34:57 +0100
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Subject: Re: popup consoles on Windows 7
From: Andy Koppe <andy DOT koppe AT gmail DOT com>
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2009/7/3 Corinna Vinschen:

> I have some testing code which only tries to create an invisible console
> if the application to execv is not a Cygwin application. =C2=A0It seems to
> work nicely. =C2=A0I'm just not sure if it's really *that* simple...

Me neither.

Given that Cygwin applications themselves are usually marked as
console applications, shouldn't you therefore get a console popping up
(unless of course the invoking process already has a console)?

Or does Windows delay console allocation until the app actually tries to us=
e it?

Andy

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