On Windows, how does console window ownership work?

Question

When a console application is started from another console application, how does console ownership work?

I see four possibilities:

1. The second applicati

Answer 1

CMD 'owns' the console. When it creates a process for an app, that app inherits handles to the console. It can read and write those. When the process goes away, CMD continues ownership.

Note: I'm not entirely sure that 'ownership' is the right word here. Windows will close the Console when CMD exits, but that may be a simple setting.