Modify the wineserver documentation for the new location of the socket
and add a warning.
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used for "Windows Emulator". In a way, both meanings are
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correct, only seen from different perspectives. The first
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meaning says that Wine is not a virtual machine, it does not
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emulate a CPU, and you are not supposed to install neither
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emulate a CPU, and you are not supposed to install
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Windows nor any Windows device drivers on top of it; rather,
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Wine is an implementation of the Windows API, and can be
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used as a library to port Windows applications to Unix. The
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What is its function in Wine? Well, to be brief, it provides
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Inter-Process Communication (IPC), synchronization, and
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process/thread management. When the wineserver launches, it
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creates a Unix socket for the current host in your home
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directory's <filename>.wine</filename> subdirectory (or
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creates a Unix socket for the current host based on (see below)
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your home directory's <filename>.wine</filename> subdirectory (or
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wherever the <constant>WINEPREFIX</constant> environment
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variable points) - all Wine processes launched later
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connects to the wineserver using this socket. (If a
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the wineserver will then terminate itself once the last Wine
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process has terminated).)
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</para>
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<para>
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In earlier versions of Wine the master socket mentioned
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above was actually created in the configuration directory;
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either your home directory's <filename>/wine</filename>
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subdirectory or wherever the <constant>WINEPREFIX</constant>
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environment variable points>. Since that might not be possible
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the socket is actually created within the <filename>/tmp</filename>
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directory with a name that reflects the configuration directory.
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This means that there can actually be several separate copies of
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the wineserver running; one per combination of user and
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configuration directory. Note that you should not have several
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users using the same configuration directory at the same time;
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they will have different copies of the wineserver running and
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this could well lead to problems with the registry information
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that they are sharing.
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</para>
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<para>
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Every thread in each Wine process has its own request
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buffer, which is shared with the wineserver. When a thread
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