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Re: popup consoles on Windows 7


2009/4/16 Corinna Vinschen:
>> 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! Is there a way to monitor developments on this issue?

Andy

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