http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19861
--- Comment #32 from Octavian Voicu octavian.voicu@gmail.com 2010-06-11 07:02:52 --- (In reply to comment #31)
File handles limit matters at the run-time, and sometimes it's a legitimate error (really too much open files), which can happen on Windows as well.
If we want to follow that philosophy we might as well stop coding Wine and tell everybody to switch to Windows.
It might happen on Windows, but because developers only test their apps with Windows, they make sure not to reach that limit. If we provide an alternative Windows API implementation, it has work at least as well as the original one, but why not even better if we can?