Re: Oracle/Linux executables with 0-suffix

Hi Sam,
Files with 0-suffix on other ports arise because of relinking the kernel. This is just the old executable, which is retained in case anything goes wrong.
No doubt this applies to the Linux version also. Apparently the fileset on technet.oracle.com consists of the 'installed' files, and they did relink it.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Sam Jordan wrote in message <373BDC07.78553D9A_at_spin.ch>...
>Hi
>
>Some time ago I downloaded the free Oracle version for Linux from
>technet.oracle.com for evaluation. Now we have ordered the software
>from Oracle and have got the commercial software.
>
>I noticed that in the free version there are two versions of most
>executables, one with and one without 0-suffix (i.e. 'oracle' and
>'oracle0'. In the commercial version there are only executables
>without 'suffix' but the file sizes correspond to the executables
>in the free version *with* suffix.
>
>One consequence of all this is, that the Oracle archive file on
>technet.oracle.com could be about twice as small as it is now,
>because most of these huge executables are present twice.
>BTW, am I the only one which thinks that the Oracle executables
>could be massively smaller, if they didn't use static linking too
>often? (A lot of executables are 3.6MB +- 200KB).
>
>But now I wonder what's the difference between the executables
>of the free version and the ones of the commercial version?
>
>bye
>--
>Sam Jordan
Received on Fri May 14 1999 - 07:22:59 CDT