diff --git a/Sources/SakeKit/Bottle.swift b/Sources/SakeKit/Bottle.swift
index 5ef45c6..2d3b0b5 100644
--- a/Sources/SakeKit/Bottle.swift
+++ b/Sources/SakeKit/Bottle.swift
@@ -151,7 +151,11 @@ public struct Bottle: Sendable, Equatable {
     /// and because it is an inode it survives the bottle being renamed. Measured against a
     /// live prefix on 2026-09-20; see docs/runtime.md.
     public var serverDirectory: URL? {
-        guard let attributes = try? FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: url.path),
+        // Resolved first: Wine `chdir`s into the prefix and stats `.`, so a bottle that is a
+        // symlink is named by its target, and `attributesOfItem` describes the link itself.
+        guard let attributes = try? FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(
+                  atPath: url.resolvingSymlinksInPath().path
+              ),
               let device = attributes[.systemNumber] as? Int,
               let inode = attributes[.systemFileNumber] as? Int
         else { return nil }
diff --git a/Tests/SakeKitTests/BottleTests.swift b/Tests/SakeKitTests/BottleTests.swift
index 1115f47..06a1102 100644
--- a/Tests/SakeKitTests/BottleTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/SakeKitTests/BottleTests.swift
@@ -490,6 +490,27 @@ private func trash(in paths: Paths) -> (can: URL, trash: Trash) {
     #expect(renamed.serverDirectory?.path == expected)
 }
 
+@Test func aBottleThatIsASymlinkIsNamedByThePrefixItPointsAt() throws {
+    let paths = temporaryRoot()
+    defer { remove(paths) }
+
+    // The `ex` bottle on 2026-09-29: a link in bottles/ to a prefix on another disk. Wine
+    // names the socket directory after the prefix, and the link's own inode names one that
+    // never exists, so Stop found nothing to stop.
+    let prefix = paths.root.appending(path: "elsewhere/ex")
+    try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: prefix, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
+    try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: paths.bottles, withIntermediateDirectories: true)
+    let bottle = Bottle(paths: paths, name: "ex")
+    try FileManager.default.createSymbolicLink(at: bottle.url, withDestinationURL: prefix)
+
+    let attributes = try FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: prefix.path)
+    let device = attributes[.systemNumber] as! Int
+    let inode = attributes[.systemFileNumber] as! Int
+    let expected = "/tmp/.wine-\(getuid())/server-"
+        + String(device, radix: 16) + "-" + String(inode, radix: 16)
+    #expect(bottle.serverDirectory?.path == expected)
+}
+
 @Test func aPrefixThatIsNotThereHasNoProcessesAndNothingToKill() async throws {
     let paths = temporaryRoot()
     defer { remove(paths) }
diff --git a/docs/gdk.md b/docs/gdk.md
index 8faf5fe..c24e926 100644
--- a/docs/gdk.md
+++ b/docs/gdk.md
@@ -59,11 +59,10 @@ An installer is given it too, because Steam's can start Steam as it finishes, an
 installed in that Steam never passes through sake's Play; that has not been tried. A copy is
 written beside the one it replaces and renamed over it, so nothing ever reads half a DLL. On
 APFS a game that has the old one loaded keeps it; on exFAT, where the `ex` bottle is, what that
-rename does under a running game has not been measured, and sake cannot yet see what runs in a
-symlinked bottle ([#15](https://github.com/typester/sake/issues/15)) to wait for it. The engine
-is one per Mac, so two copies of sake that carry different runtime source each take the other's
-build for stale and build their own again; only a development build run beside a release does
-that.
+rename does under a running game has not been measured, and sake does not check what is running
+in the bottle before it replaces the copy. The engine is one per Mac, so two copies of sake that
+carry different runtime source each take the other's build for stale and build their own again;
+only a development build run beside a release does that.
 
 **libHttpClient is pinned by what it unpacks to.** The step fetches it itself rather than with
 the other sources, so that nothing else in setup waits on it. GitHub's page on downloading
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
index a28640c..bd463c2 100644
--- a/docs/roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/roadmap.md
@@ -98,9 +98,7 @@ easier to read than it was interleaved with `configure` flags.
   through its socket directory ([runtime.md](runtime.md#taking-a-bottle-down)), but the guard
   that refuses to rename a bottle with a game in it still asks what sake started, so it is
   narrower than it needs to be. A wineserver one of Wine's tools started is not something it
-  knows about, so running winecfg does not refuse a rename the way a running game does. In a
-  bottle that is a symlink the socket directory is not found at all
-  ([#15](https://github.com/typester/sake/issues/15)).
+  knows about, so running winecfg does not refuse a rename the way a running game does.
 - **`AppModel` has quietly become where decisions live, and the tests cannot reach it.** Whether
   a bottle may be renamed, which run a title's status belongs to, which variable names a title
   may not set (`typedEnvironment()`), and what to forget after an uninstall are all judgements,
diff --git a/docs/runtime.md b/docs/runtime.md
index 35766da..33610d5 100644
--- a/docs/runtime.md
+++ b/docs/runtime.md
@@ -521,9 +521,7 @@ rather than an assumption of success. Stopping the `wine` sake started is not en
 `Agent.exe` runs with ppid 1, wineserver is its own daemon, and Battle.net keeps a fistful of
 CEF helpers (prototype). `wineserver -k` alone leaves the prefix's own services running, `ps`
 cannot say which prefix a process belongs to, and the directory wineserver keeps its socket in
-can. It finds nothing in a bottle that is a symlink: `Bottle.serverDirectory`
-reads the link's own inode rather than the prefix's
-([#15](https://github.com/typester/sake/issues/15)).
+can.
 
 **`wineserver -k` leaves the prefix's own services behind.** A title was started from the
 library and stopped again: `wineserver -k` took down the game and the server, and then these
@@ -565,3 +563,13 @@ else: the clients hold the server's `tmpmap-*` shared memory open, so they are s
 **after the server itself is gone** (sake, 2026-09-20). An inode does not change when a
 directory is renamed, so this identifies a bottle's processes across a rename; and it is per
 prefix, so nothing here can reach a CrossOver bottle or another of sake's.
+
+**A bottle that is a symlink is named by what the link points at.** Wine `chdir`s into
+`WINEPREFIX` and stats `.`, in ntdll and wineserver alike (read in CrossOver 26.3.0's
+sources, 2026-10-01), while `FileManager.attributesOfItem` describes a link itself, so
+reading the bottle's own path with it names a directory that never exists. In the `ex`
+bottle, a link to a directory on an exFAT disk, the link is `1000012-8fa3a84` and the
+server's directory `server-1000016-116a1`. Through the link's own inode, Stop killed
+wineserver and left nineteen processes running with ppid 1 (sake, 2026-09-29); through its
+target, the sequence Stop runs found eighteen there with Steam up, wineserver and seven
+`steamwebhelper.exe` among them, and left none (sake, 2026-10-01).
diff --git a/docs/troubleshooting.md b/docs/troubleshooting.md
index 82e2e4c..549467d 100644
--- a/docs/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/docs/troubleshooting.md
@@ -83,9 +83,7 @@ the Switch Pro Controller's, so a controller should work. If yours is not seen,
 ## After you quit
 
 - **The Dock still shows sake after it has quit.** Something sake started is still running.
-  **Stop** on a title takes down everything in its bottle, not only the game. In a bottle that
-  is a symlink to another disk, Stop does not find what runs there
-  ([#15](https://github.com/typester/sake/issues/15)).
+  **Stop** on a title takes down everything in its bottle, not only the game.
 
 ## Removing sake