vitamin wrote: > > You simply not allowed to open the same port for listening by multiple applications. This holds true on any *NIX system as well as Windows. Agree on this part. However, Wine is not on the same line as the *NIX systems or Windows - it doesn't run by itself like the others. It runs on top of an OS and tries to mimic another OS - a wonderful thing. Since it runs on an OS, it is supposed to handle and avoid any potential conflicts with the underlying OS, right? Port conflict (though perhaps rare) is one such things that need to be handled. What if an app run on Wine somehow uses the same port already in use by an app run in the underlying OS? In those cases, Wine should provide a mechanism (though Wincfg perhaps) for the user to remap those few ports in conflicts.
