Re: Radiohead lyrics in Oracle RDBMS code

From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:09:42 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <234d8883-c22a-481d-a87e-055cf24fab5f_at_a5g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>

On Jan 25, 12:16 am, Dennis Yurichev <dennis.yuric..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 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;
>
> };

On hp-ux, 10.2.0.4, the strings command seems to filter it out, but grepping directly for hell shows it.

lol, can't even get the lyric right! What was that misheard lyrics site?

jg

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