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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc index 43f73597c..6ec1e29da 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_console.cc @@ -1977,9 +1977,20 @@ fhandler_console::need_invisible () debug_printf ("window station is not visible"); invisible_console = true; } - else + /* Band-aid for Windows 7. AllocConsole is broken on W7 in that it + doesn't allocate the console in the hidden, active WindowStation, + but instead on the WindowStation on which the application has + originally been started on. This effectively disallows to create + a hidden console. + So what we do now is this. First we try to attach to an existing + console window of the parent process. If that doesn't work, we + skip generating a hidden WindowStation entirely. After creating + the new console, we hide it. Unfortunately it's still visible in + the taskbar. Hopefully this will be fixed in SP1... */ + else if (!wincap.has_broken_alloc_console () || !AttachConsole (-1)) { - if (myself->ctty != TTY_CONSOLE) + if (myself->ctty != TTY_CONSOLE + && !wincap.has_broken_alloc_console ()) { h = CreateWindowStationW (NULL, 0, WINSTA_ACCESS, NULL); termios_printf ("%p = CreateWindowStation(NULL), %E", h); @@ -1991,6 +2002,8 @@ fhandler_console::need_invisible () } b = AllocConsole (); /* will cause flashing if CreateWindowStation failed */ + if (b && wincap.has_broken_alloc_console ()) + ShowWindowAsync (GetConsoleWindow (), SW_HIDE); debug_printf ("h %p, horig %p, flags %p", h, horig, oi.dwFlags); if (horig && h && h != horig && SetProcessWindowStation (horig)) CloseWindowStation (h); |