workaround

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
   {fix}es; 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 {crash}es 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."