Who is responsible to start up a Wineconsole
Eric Pouech
eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Mon May 8 11:27:41 CDT 2006
Uwe Bonnes wrote:
>>>>>>"Eric" == Eric Pouech <eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
>
> Eric> Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> >> Hallo,
> >>
> >> on XP, Program->Execute->(../system32/)telnet.exe starts up a
> >> Console. "wine telnet.exe" on the command line however silently
> >> terminates, as the call to GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo returns an
> >> empty LPCONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO structure.
> >>
> >> Shouldn't wine start up some wineconsole in that circumstances as XP
> >> does?
> Eric> never guess what windows explorer does in your back... - the
> Eric> right test sequence would be from a program where we know how
> Eric> CreateProcess is called - wine behaves AFAIK as windows: it only
> Eric> creates a console when it's asked to (either because of a specific
> Eric> flag in CreateProcess(), or by calling AllocConsole()).
>
> MSDN tells for AllocConsole that Console Application (CUI) are initialized
> with a console (preloaded), unless they are created as a detached process.
but they don't clarify what happens when the parent has no console.
I want to see the test program (CreateProcess with console inheritance,
called from a process without any console, starting a CUI process). I'm
still not sure that it will create the console.
> If I understand the wine loader right, and didn't overlook something in the
> relay log, the initial wine process doesn't start the first process by a
> CreateProcess call. So no chance to fiddle withe the flags.
that's why we use wineconsole...
wine doesn't create any console, wineconsole does...
A+
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Eric Pouech
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