[ros-kernel] CSRSS Consoles

art yerkes ayerkes at speakeasy.net
Tue Nov 11 11:58:31 CET 2003


> Does this confirm that, in graphics mode, consoles are windows owned and managed by csrss.exe/win32k.sys and that can even live alone?
> 
> N.B. this is not a joke.

If something, such as a cygwin process, duplicated a console handle, the
console window won't disappear until that handle is closed.  You can try
this by running a cygwin daemon such as nasd in a shell window, then 
looking for the cmd.

http://64.81.145.152/~arty/nasd-owns-console.jpg
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