Package: bash3 Version: 3.0-12 Severity: normal I would expect the following command to always give the same output, because I seed RANDOM at the outset:
bash3 -c 'RANDOM=1; set -x; true $RANDOM; true $RANDOM | true $RANDOM' What I find in practise, however, is that, although the first line printed is always the same, the next 2 lines are different on each run. My guess is that a subshell is being created to run the pipeline, and that bash, as part of its initialisation code for a subshell, seeds RANDOM again, wiping out the seed I specified. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages bash3 depends on: ii base-files 3.1.2 Debian base system miscellaneous f ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii passwd 1:4.0.3-31sarge5 change and administer password and -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
