On Jun 26 17:14, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 26 11:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:52:13PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > >It's an interesting idea, but rather tricky to implement. I assume > > >you will get an ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED when trying to attach to a console > > >of another user, and a cygserver service would usually run under SYSTEM. > > >Relying on a service at all doesn't sound overly tempting, either. I'm > > >still hoping for another solution. > > > > FWIW, I can add another failure point to the mix. I spent all day one > > Saturday trying to come up with a workaround. It looks like this is one > > of the many cases where clever Microsoft programmers have worked around > > the clock closing up any loopholes which would allow useful behavior. > > > > Hmm. As I was typing this I had another idea which I don't think I > > tried. I'll look into that this weekend. > > I have a local band-aid using AttachConsole and ShowWindowAsync. If > your idea doesn't work, we could at least use this pathetic workaround.
Apart from that, I had no luck toying around with creating another desktop either. And maybe, just maybe, Microsoft actually provides some workaround. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
