Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7755] A console window is never opened.

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Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 03:49:30 +0000

Comment # 10 on bug 7755 from 
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > However, even with that fix, the problem persists on Windows XP; I'm not
> > sure what the issue is there.
> 
> The issue there appears to be that AllocConsole() returns TRUE (or, at
> least, some non-zero value) but doesn't actually create a console.

Nope, bad test.  The issue is that, for Wireshark launched from a GUI,
AttachConsole() fails, but changes some piece of state information such that a
subsequent AllocConsole() would then fail with ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED - and
FreeConsole() doesn't clear that state.  It *does* clear it on Windows 7.

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