On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 01:11, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 12:14:31PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 11:02:12AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:44:23PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>I have some testing code which only tries to create an invisible console >>>>if the application to execv is not a Cygwin application. It seems to >>>>work nicely. I'm just not sure if it's really *that* simple... >>> >>>I actually had some plans (which I have talked about here from time to >>>time) for the invisible console for cygwin apps so I am not ready to >>>admit defeat for this method yet. >> >>I think I have a workaround for this which avoids the flashing console... > > I've checked in a workaround for the problem: > > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2009-q3/msg00010.html >
cgf rules!! > I checked this by removing the Windows 7 code from mintty and rebuilding > it. With the currently released version of Cygwin 1.7.0-50 this causes > a windows console to be displayed on the screen along with the expected > mintty window. With the 20090703 snapshot, which includes Corinna's > workaround, I got a flashing console. With the code in CVS I got the > expected behavior of no console flash. > Cool! But not so cool as if M$FT would correct their bugs :( booo! > As I type this I realize that I didn't really confirm that the new > invisible console code has the desired effect in mintty. It is supposed > to make some (native?) apps work better. I thought that one of the apps > was the "net" command and I don't have any problems running it but does > anyone remember a specific program (maybe even a cygwin program?) which > required the existence of a console to work correctly? If so, I'd like > to add it to the comments in the source code and verify that it still > works. > Remember old DOS days? EDIT. It even resizes my cmd window, so I bet it *must* have a strong reason to want a console. > If you want to try a snapshot, make sure that you grab the new helper > app "cygwin-console-helper.exe" and put it in /bin. Without this, > you'll still see the same flashes as the 20090703 snapshot. The new > .exe file is in here: > > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/cygwin-inst-20090704.tar.bz2 > Thanks for looking (hard) into this. I've no Win7 right now, but I already downloaded a copy, just because of these matters. I'll try it during next week. -- ___________ Julio Costa -- 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
