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workaround: n. 1. A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or
otherwise avoid a bug or
misfeature in some system. Theoretically,
workarounds are always replaced by fixes; in
practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long
periods of time. “The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I
fixed it to interpret them as spaces.” “That's not a fix,
that's a workaround!” 2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some
currently non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example:
“Using META-F7 crashes the 4.43 build of
Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then SHIFT-F5, and delete
the remaining cruft by hand.”
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