Hi,
So, in summary, that's one big "Marginally more interesting than watching
paint dry." from a guy that's dedicated a large ****tion of his life to
System Security, and one emphatic "Couldn't give a Monkey's!" from an
engineer at the very hub of Rdb development. So having explored all
avenues
I guess we can put this thread to bed now :-)
Cheers Richard Maher
PS. Just because I haven't found anyone yet, it doesn't mean that there
aren't people out there that find this stuff captivating. (I just don't
want
any other losers out there to be discouraged from overcoming their shyness
:-)
"Norman Lastovica" <norman.lastovica@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:422B884A.EB882460@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> so if I understand ... something that didn't work several
> years ago now works and you're concerned about why? just
> good luck and a bug fix by either VMS and/or Rdb. I've
> certainly got a lot better things to do than try search around
> for an old problem being fixed. But thanks for thinking of us.
>
>
> Richard Maher wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Back in November 2001 (Doesn't time fly . . .) I had a problem with
trying
> > to delete a persona after accessing Rdb. In a nutshell, If you'd
started
a
> > read-only transaction for a persona then you were unable to delete it
and
> > were returned ss$_personadelpend even though you'd committed the txn
and
> > gone back to your natural persona. Scary thing, from a VMS point of
view,
> > was you were able to assume a dead persona. (Though I was more
interested in
> > the potential memory-leak/resource exhaustion of endless personae
being
> > created)
> >
> > At the time I had no idea if it was a VMS or Rdb problem, I was
running
> > Alpha VMS 7.2 and Rdb 7.0.3 and no one (least of all Rdb engineering)
was
> > interested in discussing the issue. Anyway, I was testing some new
features
> > the other day and I decided to revisit this functionality and guess
what?
> > It's fixed! I'm now running Rdb 7.1-24 and if I rdb$setver back to 7.0
I
can
> > reproduce the problem. So it is clearly something Rdb was doing that
> > prevented the persona from dying. But what? I scanned through the Rdb
> > release notes and could not find anything. Surely this is a lot more
> > interesting then most of the crap that gets beaten to death in COV?
> >
> > Most of you may not find this exciting, but for me, this is the dog's
> > bollocks! If only Rdb sup****ted Set Session Authorization Persona
> > :ws_integer; :-(
> >
> > Norm, you've been very quite lately; any interest in this? What about
you
> > VMS guys? What could Rdb have been doing that stopped the persona from
dying
> > immediately? I checked SDA> Show Proc/Persona but it had already gone
after
> > the reserve. I was hoping that RefCount might reveal something.
> >
> > Anyway, I'll attach some test code as a reply along with the original
mail.
> > This really is pretty ****-hot stuff! Maybe if someone else asks for
it
we
> > may get a reply?
> >
> > Regards Richard Maher
> >
> > PS. On second thoughts let's resume normal programming - "This persona
stuff
> > could reveal a deep-rooted underlying lack of commitment to VMS!", "I
smell
> > smoke; is that a vibration?", "We're all going to die!!!"
>
> --
> - - - - -
> opinions expressed here are mine and mine alone
> and certainly are not intended in any way to
> express or represent any opinions or commitment
> of oracle cor****ation.
>
> norman lastovica / oracle rdb engineering
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