wine users - Oct 2008 - COM ports are not getting locked

I have an application(actually 4 apps) that uses 4 different serial devices.
Each has been mapped properly and can be seen or used by the applications
individually. However the apps do port enumeration to find the proper device to
use. When a new device is enabled wine crashes HARD. The reason is wine is not
locking a say com1 once it is in use and the new app starts scanning from com1
and can actually reopen the already in use port.This of course causes wine to
lock up. This is super bad behavior. Does anyone have a suggestion for a work
around to lock the port so it cannot be opened by another app?

And don't tell me this isn't a wine bug....it is.

Yep it is a bug.  Reason why com ports are not auto.

Applicaiton per WINEPREFIX with com ports setup right so there is not a locking
fight.  its partly because wineserver opened the serial port.  It is a little
more tricky to fix fully.