520053692817-0001@t-online.de (Andreas Mohr) writes:
(you do know that I disagree on these things, right ? after all Wine emulates *Windows*, and if Windows does it that way, then we should do it, too, for heaven's sake, especially if it's not really painful)
There is no such thing as "Windows", there are multiple versions that do different things, and we have to choose what we emulate. In this case it's clear that it makes more sense to emulate the NT behavior, since this is what is documented.
Of course we could do a winver check, but if we do this for every single difference between Win98 and NT, we'll end up with a mess of spaghetti code with more version checks than actual code. So winver checks must be limited to cases where they are demonstrably necessary for a real-world application.