Disabling consoles flash on Windows
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Description
Hello.
It may be small enhancement, but on windows, connect function makes few successive console flashes appear (which means some commands are being run through the console). This is not convenient to see.
I traced it and found that if we changed the creation flag for the function CreateProcesssW (openvpn/win/call.hpp, line: 117) to be CREATE_NO_WINDOW (instead of 0), consoles stop appearing.
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Start in openvpn/win/call.hpp around line 117, where the connect function calls CreateProcessW and sets the creation flag. Verify the Windows behavior with CREATE_NO_WINDOW and confirm that connecting no longer produces successive console flashes.
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- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Activity status
- Stale
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