On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:45:23AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote: >As detailed here: >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-05/msg00471.html > >run.exe currently launches clients without any stdio handles and without >any console at all. That's over-ambitious: what run REALLY should do is >launch the client with a *hidden* console and *working* stdio handles. > >Run is a console-hider, not a daemonizer -- and some apps (like, err, >rxvt-unicode), even tho they are GUIs, don't behave well when launched >without working stdio (even if those handles point to an invisible >console, and really shouldn't be used by the app anyway!) > >The attached patch adapts code from cygwin's fhandler_init, using >NT/2K/XP-only APIs to enable AllocConsole() to initialize the stdio >handles *without* that console ever becoming visible, not even for a >brief flash. Because these APIs are only available on some of the >supported OSes, I use LoadLibrary/GetProcAddress and function pointers, >so that on the older OSes the behavior should be unchanged from 1.1.9-1.
Hopefully the run code is GPLed... cgf -- 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/
