Windows 11 reverts the command prompt to a single-process architecture

Posted by clbrri@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 6 comments

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PresentDirection41@reddit

This is a perfect example of the kind of childish misinformation that makes discussing anything on reddit exhausting. OP, the post you are quoting is lying. Windows 11 has not "reverted the command prompt to a single process architecture." If you launch a command prompt through the Windows Terminal app, then they are all one process for the purpose of sandboxing within that app. This is specific to how Terminal behaves. You can still easily launch your own separate instances of cmd.exe outside of the Terminal app and they will indeed be separate processes.

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clbrri@reddit (OP)

Thanks. I clicked on the link in the original post, and saw a member of the terminal project confirm that their system is singleprocess, before sharing here.

It is hard to jump to a conclusion of "lying" here. By your description it looks like there may be complications depending on how one launches the terminals.. but "lying" is a somewhat strong statement that accuses the intent to deceive, which I don't see that original post having.

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PresentDirection41@reddit

I stopped giving redditors the benefit of the doubt like 15 years ago, dude. At this point I am 99.999999% sure they are lying on purpose in order to shill whatever narrative they want to shill.

By your description it looks like there may be complications depending on how one launches the terminals

There is an app in Windows called "Terminal" but it is not a terminal in the same way you'd imagine on Linux or Mac. It is just a neat container that displays various terminals in tabs - most commonly powershell.exe and cmd.exe. Terminal is not the same as Command Prompt, in the same way that you can navigate to Reddit.com in Firefox but Firefox is not Reddit.

As I said before, you can still launch cmd.exe outside of Terminal and you will not encounter this limitation. It only occurs in Terminal because all the tabs you open are opened as child processes of Terminal, which allows them all to be within one sandbox and share data with each other.

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clbrri@reddit (OP)

Thanks, let me remove this post since I cannot verify its validity.