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Re: rxvt pops up console with 2001-Aug-07 shapshot
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:55:42PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:18:03 +0200
> >>> Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> said:
>
> > > I think inetd and cygrunsrv shouldn't invoke AllocConsole() and
> >
> > Can you explain why you think that? I'm not quite sure why that
> > should be a problem.
>
> When we allow inetd or cygrunsrv as a service to interact with
> the desktop, the console window pops up and remains on the
> desktop until the service terminates. I feel it is annoying.
>
> Moreover, when we execute inetd as a normal application, the
> console window remains until the inetd terminates. Both my daemon
> patch and the run utility by Charles Wilson can't prevent it.
But as I said, the AllocConsole() was the solution to prevent
opening console windows for native windows apps...
Isn't that a chicken-egg problem???
Corinna
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