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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/