Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/2001/10/26/17:15:16
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:01:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:49:32PM +0100, Keith Starsmeare wrote:
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
> >To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
> >Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 8:18 PM
> >Subject: Re: setup.exe command line options
> >
> >
> >> I agree with the option names being similar to the dialog boxes but I'd
> >> prefer that you use '--' options. If you could invent suitable short
> >> '-q' style options that would be good too.
> >
> >OK, that's a good idea - my command lines were getting very long!
> >
> >One other thing would be a --help option, is there a way that I can output
> >to stdout? printf, and fprintf(stdout,..) don't output to the command line.
> >I'm currently using fprintf(stderr, ..), which brings up a handy dialog box,
> >for tracing.
>
> There is no way that I know of to do this with a -mwindows based
> utility, unfortunately. It's a real pain. This was recently discussed
> on the cygwin-xfree mailing list.
I just found the function to do that. It's a new function in the
Windows XP API called AttachConsole(pid) which attaches the calling
process to the same console as the process `pid' (e.g. the parent)
already has allocated.
On the downside... there's no way to do that on 9x/NT/2K.
Corinna
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