Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Actually, it turned out that the entire FreeConsole/AttachConsole > stuff is entirely unnecessary. I have a solution now which apparently > works for all OSes and it's really very simple. What I didn't realize > is that run.exe as a GUI application has no console attached. Thus, > only the child application started from run gets a hidden console > created by Cygwin. As a result there's some code unnecessary in > run.exe. The child process gets now simply started without console > window at all, which in turn results in Cygwin creating the console for > the child. > > New patch below.
...which only works if run is compiled under cygwin 1.7, not if it is compiled as a native app or under cygwin 1.5. I guess it's up to Alexander (or his replacement, if adoption is necessary)... You've basically come around to proposing what Andy said in his first reply. -- Chuck
