NSTask fails to show text message on command prompt about libs-base HOT 1 CLOSED

I think this is more an issue for cmd.exe than one in GNUstep.

Looking at the code to create a subtask I see:

// |DETACHED_PROCESS
/* We don't set the DETACHED_PROCESS flag as it actually means that the

• child task should get a new Console allocated ... and that means it
• will pop up a console window ... which looks really bad.
  */

I suspect that the behavior you are looking for is to have the task created as a detached process with its own console attached, so that cmd.exe can display in that console, but if the code did that, then we'd have consoles created for tasks that don't need/want them.

You could try uncommenting the line to set the DETACHED_PROCESS flag and see if that does what you want.
If it does, and you thing it's a worthwhile option to have, you could add a windows-specific extension method to control it.

from libs-base.