As subject.

Does anyone care about this? For those on Windows, the black box is
REALLY annoying when you develop scheduled CLI scripts which call
external apps. It takes focus away from what ever you are doing and
there is no need for the window.

I'm not saying that the shell shouldn't be launched, that is a
separate issue, just that the console window shouldn't/needn't be
shown.

Regards,

Richard Quadling.

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Richard Quadling
Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"

Just in case you can't see the patches ...

Index: tsrm_win32.c

RCS file: /repository/TSRM/tsrm_win32.c,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -r1.31 tsrm_win32.c
--- tsrm_win32.c 20 Mar 2007 17:57:44 -0000 1.31
+++ tsrm_win32.c 22 Mar 2007 15:39:50 -0000
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@

cmd = (char*)malloc(strlen(command)+strlen(TWG(comspec))+sizeof(" /c "));
sprintf(cmd, "%s /c %s", TWG(comspec), command);

• if (!CreateProcess(NULL, cmd, &security, &security,
  security.bInheritHandle, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, env, cwd, &startup,
  &process)) {

• if (!CreateProcess(NULL, cmd, &security, &security,
  security.bInheritHandle, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | CREATE_NO_WINDOW,
  env, cwd, &startup, &process)) {
  return NULL;
  }
  free(cmd);

Index: proc_open.c

RCS file: /repository/php-src/ext/standard/proc_open.c,v
retrieving revision 1.54
diff -u -r1.54 proc_open.c
--- proc_open.c 24 Feb 2007 16:25:55 -0000 1.54
+++ proc_open.c 22 Mar 2007 15:39:17 -0000
@@ -738,11 +738,11 @@
}

if (bypass_shell) {

•   newprocok = CreateProcess(NULL, command, &security, &security,
  

TRUE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, env.envp, cwd, &si, &pi);

•   newprocok = CreateProcess(NULL, command, &security, &security,
  

TRUE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | CREATE_NO_WINDOW, env.envp, cwd, &si,
&pi);
} else {
spprintf(&command_with_cmd, 0, "%s /c %s", GetVersion() <
0x80000000 ? COMSPEC_NT : COMSPEC_9X, command);

•   newprocok = CreateProcess(NULL, command_with_cmd, &security,
  

&security, TRUE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS, env.envp, cwd, &si, &pi);

•   newprocok = CreateProcess(NULL, command_with_cmd, &security,
  

&security, TRUE, NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS | CREATE_NO_WINDOW, env.envp,
cwd, &si, &pi);

	efree(command_with_cmd);
}

http://rquadling.php1h.com/proc_open.diff.txt
and
http://rquadling.php1h.com/tsrm_win32.diff.txt

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Richard Quadling
Zend Certified Engineer : http://zend.com/zce.php?c=ZEND002498&r=213474731
"Standing on the shoulders of some very clever giants!"