On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Juan Lang juan.lang@gmail.com wrote:
I'm not arguing with the behavior of broken(). I'm saying that since this feature is undocumented it's entirely possible that it could get removed in some future version of Windows*, so if we're not testing the version we wouldn't know that it got removed. We were lucky to stumble upon this thing in the first place, it's starting to look like it's not actually the issue responsible for the slowdown bug for which we are researching.
Except that an app already depends on the newer behavior, so Microsoft would have to maintain a quirk for the app if they wanted to change the behavior. Since the hypothetical future version of Windows with changed behavior doesn't yet exist, addressing that case seems rather premature. --Juan
Point taken.
Erich Hoover ehoover@mines.edu