Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

On 26 January 2010 15:32, Kellyn Pedersen <kjped1313_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> And I thought the developer was just trying to slip in a message to
> everyone about how he really felt about working on the code... :)
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> --- On *Tue, 1/26/10, Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke_at_hotsos.com>* wrote:
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> From: Ric Van Dyke <ric.van.dyke_at_hotsos.com>
> Subject: RE: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code
> To: troach_at_gmail.com, dennis_at_conus.info
> Cc: "ORACLE-L" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 7:33 AM
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> You’d be surprised (or shocked) at some of the things that have creep
> into the code over the years…
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [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
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> I wonder what other lyrics are in the code :)... Could this explain why
> Oracle keeps taking more room to install? : )
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis_at_conus.info<http://us.mc320.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=dennis_at_conus.info>>
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> Hi.
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> strings oracle.exe | grep radiohead
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> 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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