RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:33:45 -0600
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You'd be surprised (or shocked) at some of the things that have creep into the code over the years...
Ric Van Dyke
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Roach
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 7:44 AM
To: dennis_at_conus.info
Cc: ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
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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Hi.
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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My PGP public key: http://yurichev.com/dennis.yurichev.asc
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