Editing measure value for vertices fails with Network I/O Error for HP and RedHat Linux

Description

When ArcMap creates a new feature using the Oracle Spatial Linear Referencing System (LRS), it sets the measures to NAN instead of "0" for HP and RedHat Linux. According to the Oracle 8.1.7 documentation, this would be an invalid feature. The values should be set to either NULL, or some measure.

Cause

On HP, Oracle's OCI does not handle NaN's correctly. Oracle is aware of the issue (TAR# 2232230.996)

On RedHat Linux, the functionality was not ported over by Oracle.

Workaround