The Simcity case reminds me of Bryan Cantrill's talk on lx-branded zones: apparently, there was a bug in rpm which didn't touch Linux, because Linux wasn't doin

The Simcity case reminds me of Bryan Cantrill's talk on lx-branded zones: apparently, there was a bug in rpm which didn't touch Linux, because Linux wasn't doing things fast enough to trigger the condition. So there was some code added to check if the running program was rpm, and to pause it briefly if it was. Apparently the comment the people who wrote it left amounted to, "we wrote this, and even we feel dirty about it." You can find the actual talk at https://youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs https://youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs