Console title not being restored when process terminates

[rksouthee]

According to the documentation for SetConsoleTitle, when the process terminates the original title is restored. When running yori however, the title is not being restored.

C:\temp>ver
YoriLib version: 01.30
Yori shell version: 01.30
Build date: Jul 18 2020
C:\temp>title -g
Yori MSVC
C:\temp>type main.c
#include <Windows.h>

int main()
{
        SetConsoleTitle("new title");
        Sleep(1000);
}
C:\temp>cl /nologo main.c
main.c
C:\temp>main.exe
C:\temp>title -g
new title
C:\temp>

[malxau]

The documentation in SetConsoleTitle is obviously wrong, which your program demonstrates. It never was the case that SetConsoleTitle is specific to a process. It's just that the shell may choose to alter the text later whenever it feels like it.

Yori gives you the choice: if you set the title via ytitle.exe, it's just arbitrary text set at some point in time that lasts until something changes it. If you set it via %YORITITLE%, it gets re-evaluated before each command. This allows the title to be highly dynamic, invoke child processes, etc. Obviously this behavior is more computationally expensive, but I assume it's what things like CMD are implicitly doing anyway.