Get the PID of _MY_ OpenConsole.exe?

[vefatica]

I think (could be wrong) that GetWindowThreadProcessId, used on the PseudoConsoleWindow class window, used to get the PID of OpenConsole.exe. In any event, that doesn't seem to be true now; it provides the PID of the shell process.

Is there a way to determine the PID of the OpenConsole.exe which the shell is using?

Thanks!

[DHowett]

Honestly, I'm not sure -- we'll need to think about this one for a little bit.

What do you plan to do with this info? :)

[vefatica]

It's one of those "Am I running in Windows Terminal?" things. MY OpenConsole.exe having WindowsTeminal as parent would be a good indicator.

I also noticed that START /B & EXIT now works to replace the shell instance without affecting WT or OpenConsole (a few years ago it did not work). Is there any discussion of that change? And I noticed that when I do that (even many times) GetWindowThreadProcessId continues to give the PID of the FIRST shell to use the PseudoConsoleWindow ... long after it terminated. That seems a little bogus.

[237dmitry]

It's one of those "Am I running in Windows Terminal?" things. MY OpenConsole.exe having WindowsTeminal as parent would be a good indicator.

You can determine which shell running on which OpenConsole.exe

$groups = Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.Parent.ProcessName -eq 'WindowsTerminal' }
                      | Group-Object { $_.StartTime.ToString() }

foreach ($group in $groups) { $group.Group; ''}

[vefatica]

I want my shell to get the ProcessId of the OpenConsole.exe in which it's running. I can use C/C++ and the WIn32 API.

[vefatica]

Is there any more on this?

[lhecker]

Ah woops, damn...

const auto GetRealWindowOwner = (DWORD(WINAPI*)(HWND))GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandleW(L"user32.dll"), MAKEINTRESOURCEA(2712));