wine-staging/README.md

wine-compholio
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The Wine "Compholio" Edition repository includes a variety of patches for Wine to run common Windows applications under Linux.

These patches fix the following Wine bugs:

* Support for TransmitFile ([Wine Bug #5048](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5048 "Multiple applications and games need support for ws2_32 SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER TransmitFile (WSAID_TRANSMITFILE)"))
* Support for Junction Points ([Wine Bug #12401](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12401 "Support junction points, i.e. DeviceIoCtl(FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT/FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT)"))
* Rhapsody 2 crashes on startup (GetSecurityInfo returns NULL DACL for process object) ([Wine Bug #15980](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15980 "Rhapsody 2 crashes on startup (GetSecurityInfo returns NULL DACL for process object)"))
* Workaround for TransactNamedPipe not being supported ([Wine Bug #17273](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17273 "Many apps and games need SetNamedPipeHandleState implementation (support for named pipe message mode)(FireFox+Flash, Win8/NET 4.x SDK/vcrun2012, WiX installers)"))
* Add implementation of WTSEnumerateProcessesW ([Wine Bug #29903](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29903 "Some Microsoft debuggers fail to enumerate processes due to wtsapi32.WTSEnumerateProcessesW() being a stub (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, DbgCLR from .NET 2.0 SDK)"))
* Support for stored file ACLs ([Wine Bug #31858](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31858 "Netflix on Firefox fails with Internet Connection Problem when loading bar is at 99%"))
* Implement an Arial replacement font ([Wine Bug #32323](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32323 "Netflix (Silverlight 4.x) and several .NET Framework 3.x/4.0 WPF apps require either Arial or Verdana to be installed"))
* Support for interface change notifications ([Wine Bug #32328](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32328 "Many .NET and Silverlight applications require SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE for interface change notifications"))
* Support for inherited file ACLs ([Wine Bug #34406](http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34406 "Finale Notepad 2012 doesn't copy/create user files on program start"))


Besides that the following additional changes are included:

* Lockfree algorithm for filedescriptor cache (improves file access speed)
* Other Pipelight specific enhancements
* Reduced SetTimer minimum value from 15 ms to 5 ms (improves Silverlight framerates)
* Support for GetVolumePathName
* Support for PulseAudio backend for audio
* Workaround for shlwapi URLs with relative paths
* XEMBED support for embedding Wine windows inside Linux applications