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Re: [BUG?] run.exe and pdflatex
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jan 11 10:11, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> > So, what was the reason, then, to remove "si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE" from
> > spawn_guts in CVS? Having it makes it much easier to fix run.exe
> > appropriately...
>
> I would be somewhat surprised if this code would have any effect in
> the trunk. The code in question looked like this:
>
> if (!wincap.pty_needs_alloc_console () && newargv.iscui && myself->ctty == -1)
> {
> si.dwFlags |= STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW;
> si.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE;
> }
>
> Given that pty_needs_alloc_console() is false only on 9x, and is always
> true on NT, the above code was only executed on 9x. Since 1.7 dropped
> 9x support, the code could go away. Shoot if I missed something.
You didn't, but I'm confused now. Why would the code that uses execve to
spawn a Cygwin console process NOT pop up a console window? Even if the
parent is compiled with -mwindows, if the app needs a console, one would
be created, wouldn't it?
Igor
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