Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 10:35:48 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id: <199609081435.KAA08142@delorie.com>
To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <323235bc.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> (message from Charles Sandmann on Sat, 07 Sep 1996 21:55:56 CDT)
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI R3 incompatible with Quake


> I will probably make a future CWSDPMI ignore locking of uncommitted
> pages just to work around this bug (Quake is a major product, right?

As much as I like quake, I don't recomment making any of our code
wrong just because their code is wrong.  They can either ship the
previous cwsdpmi or issue a quake patch, but if we purposely allow
invalid behavior, other developers will not get the advantage of a
correct environment.  The fact that 386MAX also breaks quake means
that they need to fix quake anyway.

As a general rule, I'd rather do what's *right* and expect the
applications to be fixed, than do something wrong to work around a
broken (albeit popular) application bug.

DJ