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Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:38:04 -0700
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On 29.06.2016 15:28, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've encountered a strange behavior. When a Cygwin C application that 
> is
> compiled with "-mwindows" tries to spawn another program, that 
> application
> suddenly gets a console window!

I tracked this down to the fhandler_console::need_invisible() call in
child_info_spawn::worker().

Whatever that is supposed to do is not working properly because
the invisible window is perfectly visible.


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