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Sorry, I was assuming you had looked at my original post. This was simply taking Igor's code and using GetStartupInfo. The problem is that when executing the code from the windows explorer, the...

Paul,

I did the following in the function and it did not work. Note: I set si.cb:
if(AllocConsole())
{
outp = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
coord.X = 80;
coord.Y = 500;...

Thanks Paul. Good catch.

Rich

I assumed when I called GetStartupInfo to fill in the STARTUPINFO structure, the first member of the STARTUPINFO structure would have been set

Rich

I have a feeling its the misuse of the GetStartupInfo function when spawing child processes.

Rich

What's interesting to me is that this worked in Windows XP and prior versions of Windows.

Thanks again,
Rich

Thanks Igor. Your code worked. When I first saw the code, I thought you were just repeating my code.

The difference is in STARTUPINFO. You essentially zeroed it out (except for the size); I...

Did your child process write to stdout and the output was shown in the console window?
Did you try to run your program by double-clicking on the executable file in the windows explorer or running it...

Hope this is enough for you.

int execute_command(char *command)
{
HANDLE outp;
COORD coord;
STARTUPINFO si;
PROCESS_INFORMATION pi;
DWORD exitcode;
BOOL ret;

I have a GUI window that allocates a console using AllocConsole and then executes a child console process which should write to the console window I allocated. When I execute the program from the...