popup consoles on Windows 7

[Andy Koppe]

Corinna Vinschen:
> Treat it as a bug in Windows 7, probably.  Do you get the console window
> as soon as you call AllocConsole, or does it open later?

It opens when invoking AllocConsole(). If I take out both the
AllocConsole() and the execve(), no console is opened.


> If so, it could also be the Cygwin code which allocates another console for some reason.

Without the AllocConsole in mintty, I think it's the AllocConsole in
fhandler_console::need_invisible() that opens the console window.
Previously it went to the invisible window station created for that
purpose, but now it doesn't.


> If the above code also allocs a console window when run from a non-cygwin
> (mingw) application, then this should be reported as a bug to Microsoft.

Okay, I'll try that. Any tips on how best to report Cygwin-related bugs to MS?

Andy

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