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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:49:00 -0400
From: parv <parv@pair.com>
To: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx>
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Subject: Re: bin/39198: sh aborts on variables with periods
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in message <1023927778RGL.fvw@yendor.var.cx>,
wrote Frank v Waveren thusly...
>
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:20:18PM -0400, parv wrote:
> 
> > anyway, i tried...
> > ...the above more than three times each in bash-2.05 &
> > ksh93-20020317 ... and did not get any utterance of 'same'.
>
> it's quite possible that bash uses for instance a linear PRNG in
> bash ... However, this behaviour is not in the spec and thus not
> guaranteed.

i got your point the first time that relying on comparison of a
random number to another random is just plain sick.  and now that
you have put that in more concrete form, the thought will be going
to stick a bit longer.


  - parv

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