popup consoles on Windows 7

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Jun 26 16:48:00 GMT 2009


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

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