[MPlayer-cygwin] [Patch] Enable menu console for MingW builds

[Frank Aurich]

Hi there,

very optimistic that working with child process on Windows couldn't be 
any harder than on *NIX, I attempted to make the menu console in MPlayer 
work for MingW users as well.

I semi-failed.
I modified the file libmenu/menu_console.c and added fork()ing code for 
Win32 systems so that someone can enable the console and type "run 
<cmd>" and let the result be displayed within MPlayers video window.

I successfully set up piping the stdin, stdout and stderr so text 
outputted by the run application will show up in MPlayer (albeit 
badly-formatted).

The real deal though would be to do a "run cmd" and then be able to have 
access to a built-in shell from where you could do almost anything you 
want (that has text ouput).

Here is the part I did not succeed. As soone as I type the above, 
MPlayer stops working. It doesn't crash, the application simply locks.

I've looked over this code and can't find a proper reason why it does 
what it does. Then again, this is my first time of dealing with Win32 
child processes.

In case someone wants to check out the code here's a link to the patch:
http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~fa859178/win32console.diff
After applying the patch enable the console and type "run ipconfig" to 
see the goodness.

Maybe someone will be able to see the horrible mistake I made and "fix" 
the deadlock that appears.

Cheers,
Frank