From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10108290409.AA13343@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Re: ODP: Win2K/XP fixes - implementation review
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:09:56 -0500 (CDT)
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> I think the set-PSP work-around is also specific to W2K.  It doesn't
> hurt, but it slows down by issuing several software interrupts.

> The FSEXT stuff doesn't get called unless the application uses the
> extensions.  By default, FSEXT doesn't get linked in.
> 
> I agree that it's better to test for the presence of bugs directly,
> but this could lead to many tests and many flag variables which tell
> what bugs are present.  If we can lump the bugs in a couple of
> categories, I think it's okay; otherwise, lets stay with version test.
> 
> For now, it sounds like we could get away with only 2 categories:
> NT+W2K and W2K-specific (the latter includes XP).  Maybe we should
> postpone these decisions a bit more.  I'm not sure we know the whole
> extent of the problems right now, although we are close.

For now, I will work on adding the _os_true_ver global and fixing 
references to it.  We need that global anyway.  The dynamic checking
can wait (it would currently be one additional flag).

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