popup consoles on Windows 7

[Andy Koppe]

2009/7/3 Corinna Vinschen:

> 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...

Me neither.

Given that Cygwin applications themselves are usually marked as
console applications, shouldn't you therefore get a console popping up
(unless of course the invoking process already has a console)?

Or does Windows delay console allocation until the app actually tries to use it?

Andy

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