Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 15:00:27 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygdev Subject: Re: rxvt pops up console with 2001-Aug-07 shapshot Message-ID: <20010822150027.O17561@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygdev Mail-Followup-To: cygdev References: <20010822132051 DOT L17561 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> <20010822131803 DOT K17561 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from fujieda@jaist.ac.jp on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:55:42PM +0900 On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:55:42PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote: > >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:18:03 +0200 > >>> Corinna Vinschen said: > > > > I think inetd and cygrunsrv shouldn't invoke AllocConsole() and > > > > Can you explain why you think that? I'm not quite sure why that > > should be a problem. > > When we allow inetd or cygrunsrv as a service to interact with > the desktop, the console window pops up and remains on the > desktop until the service terminates. I feel it is annoying. > > Moreover, when we execute inetd as a normal application, the > console window remains until the inetd terminates. Both my daemon > patch and the run utility by Charles Wilson can't prevent it. But as I said, the AllocConsole() was the solution to prevent opening console windows for native windows apps... Isn't that a chicken-egg problem??? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc.