http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10114
--- Comment #19 from Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com 2010-03-18 07:48:07 --- So you're proposing that the loop while sleep 10 do wine cmd /c echo hi done would keep a laptop drive busy if the user had installed Office?
If someone can confirm that, maybe it's worth looking at doing the optimization, but I'm not sure the optimization would actually help that case.