CreateProcess and console handles

Hello, everyone! I hope you can help me with this one...
What I want to do is create a console application that would process user input and then spawn other console applications in the same console window. So I write something like this:

Code:

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        PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;
        STARTUPINFO startupInfo;
        char userInput[100];

        ZeroMemory(&startupInfo, sizeof(startupInfo));
        startupInfo.cb = sizeof(startupInfo);

        if(CreateProcess(NULL, "ls.exe",
                NULL,NULL,FALSE,0,NULL,
                NULL,&startupInfo,&processInfo))
        {
                WaitForSingleObject(processInfo.hProcess,INFINITE);
                CloseHandle(processInfo.hThread);
                CloseHandle(processInfo.hProcess);
        } 

        printf("What do you do?\n" ); // Works OK
        gets(userInput); // Freezes here!
        printf("Got it!\n" );

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The problem is, after the spawned process ends, the console stops receiving keyboard input (the output still works). I used to think that the child process closes the input handles when it finishes, but I realised that bInheritHandles parameter to CreateProcess() is set to FALSE, so that's not what causes the freeze. What can I do about it?

You can try other ways to get keyboard input, getline, cin<< etc.
And are you sure it works before the process?