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Re: Cygwin's spawn/exec, mintty and the "Program Compatibility Assistant"
On 2/17/2012 7:18 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Bottom line:
>
> - From observation I assume that it's all about having a runlevel manifest
> or not. On W7 the binary additionally needs a special W7 compatible
> manifest.
>
> - Console applications are only affected when started directly from the
> GUI. If they are started from a correctly-manifested console app (CMD),
> they and their children are not affected anymore.
>
> - So we would have to create all executables with a W7-compatible
> manifest. That is quite certainly not an option.
>
> - So we have to keep the CREATE_BREAKAWAY_FROM_JOB stuff in Cygwin
> for the time being.
So, should run.exe (and run2.exe) be modified to do something similar to
what Cygwin does, since they both use CreateProcess directly?
--
Chuck