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Re: popup consoles on Windows 7
On Apr 15 22:15, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen:
> > If the above code also allocs a console window when run from a non-cygwin
> > (mingw) application, then this should be reported as a bug to Microsoft.
>
> I can confirm this one now. This little test opens a console window on
> 7, but not Vista, when compiled with 'gcc -mno-cygwin -mwindows'.
>
> int
> main(void)
> {
> HWINSTA wst = CreateWindowStation (0, 0, WINSTA_ALL_ACCESS, 0);
> SetProcessWindowStation(wst);
> AllocConsole();
> Sleep(3000);
> return 0;
> }
>
> There seems to have been quite a bit of rearchitecting in this area.
> On 7 there's a process called 'conhost.exe' for every console, which I
> don't think I've seen on previous Windows versions.
Confirmed. I'm going to send a bug report to MSFT.
Thanks,
Corinna
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