Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

From: Thomas Roach <troach_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:44:09 -0500
Message-ID: <b86ffce61001250744w5d6e4338w378c810de6d7e5ee_at_mail.gmail.com>

I wonder what other lyrics are in the code :)... Could this explain why Oracle keeps taking more room to install? : )

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis_at_conus.info> wrote:

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> strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead
>
> Starting at least at 10.2.0.1, function kfasSelfTest_update() (located
> in kfas.o) use Radiohead lyrics to test... something related to ASM
> probably.
>
> Schematic pseudocode:
>
> #define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing
> here.I don't belong here - radiohead"
>
> kfasSelfTest_update()
> {
> kfasOpen (...);
> somestruct.somevalue=STRING;
> kfasUpdate (somestruct);
> kfasClose (...);
> newstruct=kfasOpen (...);
> if (strncmp (newstruct.somevalue, STRING, ...)!=0)
> {
> // raise error 99999?
> kserec1(99999, 1, ...);
> kserec2(99999, 1, ..., STRING, 1, ...);
> return 0;
> };
> kfasClose (...);
> return 1;
> };
>
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