From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 12 14:48:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from crawl.var.cx (e166066.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.166.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C8337B413 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yendor.var.cx (yendor.var.cx [192.168.0.6]) by crawl.var.cx (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g5CLkwb07512; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:46:58 +0200 Received: from fvw by yendor.var.cx with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17IFxF-00013y-00; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:47:01 +0200 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:47:01 +0200 From: Frank v Waveren To: parv Cc: Joe Kelsey , freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/39198: sh aborts on variables with periods Message-ID: <1023918173HKC.fvw@yendor.var.cx> References: <200206122010.g5CKA3L09165@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020612214110.GA30199@moo.holy.cow> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020612214110.GA30199@moo.holy.cow> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 05:41:11PM -0400, parv wrote: > if test $RANDOM = $RANDOM omg, you wicked wicked man. That will mysteriously misdetect on ksh/bash once in 32767 times. Please don't. -- Frank v Waveren Fingerprint: 0EDB 8787 fvw@[var.cx|stack.nl|dse.nl|chello.nl] ICQ#10074100 09B9 6EF5 6425 B855 Public key: hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/fvw@var.cx 7179 3036 E136 B85D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message