http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25015
--- Comment #5 from Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org 2010-11-04 04:28:33 CDT --- (In reply to comment #4)
Raising the hard limit probably requires purging the ubuntu codebase of all unsafe uses of select().
No, apps would still be limited by the soft limit unless they explicitly raise it (like Wine does).