Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

From: Mark D Powell <Mark.Powell2_at_hp.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:39:50 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <a005da23-81db-4fda-ac02-fa0752caffe3_at_b2g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>

On Jan 25, 6:05 am, gazzag <gar..._at_jamms.org> wrote:
> On 25 Jan, 08:16, Dennis Yurichev <dennis.yuric..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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> > Schematic pseudocode:
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> > #define STRING "I'm a creep, I'm a winner, what the hell am I doing
> > here.I don't belong here - radiohead"
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> > 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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> Sadly, if this is true, the lyric is wrong.  The actual words are:
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> "I'm a creep, I'm a _weirdo_.  What the hell am I doing here. I don't
> belong here."
>
> Maybe I'll log a SR.... :P
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> HTH
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The presence of the message seems to be both version platform dependent. I cannot find in on AIX 10.2.0.3 but it can be found on Linux and Solaris.

HTH -- Mark D Powell -- Received on Tue Jan 26 2010 - 13:39:50 CST