Oracle & linprocfs (was: Re: linux kernel-land)

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:03:31PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> There doesn't seem to be a significant regression for Oracle on 4.x.
> I've spent 4 hours on this this evening and the installer *still*
> doesn't work properly on 4.x, with or without an "equivalent" patch to
> linprocfs_misc.c.  This isn't new with the linux8 patch, and it's widely
> believed that RELENG_5 or greater is a basic requirement for Oracle to
> work under linux emulation (for 9i at least - I don't have earlier
> versions to hand - marcel wrote the handbook section on this and may be
> able to test Oracle 8.x).

Alas. I don't have any 4.x machines since 5.3 came out and I left my
knapsack of Oracle stuff and knowledge in the Netherlands when I moved
to the US 5 years ago. I don't know and I can't find out :-)

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net