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in thread Question on Win32::Process

The process is a console application that is run without a console window

I think you may be confusing CREATE_NO_WINDOW with DETACHED_PROCESS.

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Re^3: Question on Win32::Process
by GrandFather (Saint) on Dec 29, 2005 at 09:18 UTC

    It is a direct quote from the "Process Creation Flags" documentation in the MSDN Library 2005

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      Interesting. This is a direct quote from MSDN on-line 

      CREATE_NO_WINDOW
0x08000000    This flag is ignored.

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      I wonder which one is authoritative?

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      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
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        I emailed MS and received the following reply from Julie Solon:

        Thanks for the feedback. I went back to the developer who asked me to make this change a few months back, and he apologized for the mistake. I’ll restore the text with a slight modification:
        The process is a console application that is being run without a console window. Therefore, the console handle for the application is not set.

        This flag is ignored if the application is not a console application, or if it is used with either CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE or DETACHED_PROCESS.
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        Indeed interesting. The version of MSDN I'm using is dated March 2005. I notice that the online version is December 2005 so I guess that is authoritive. But I can't see how they can have changed the behaviour for older versions of the OS, or even unpatched current versions. There is no indication of a change in behaviour in the documentation so unless it never worked ...

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