Bug 344411

Summary:	$RANDOM stays the same when job executed in the background
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sami Farin <hvtaifwkbgefbaei>
Component:	bash	Assignee:	Tomas Janousek <tjanouse>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	twaugh
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Fixed In Version:	3.2-19.fc7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Sami Farin 2007-10-21 12:36:01 UTC

Description of problem:
$ echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM &
24366159785618
[2] 8575
[2]-  Done                    echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM
$ echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM &
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[2] 8576
[2]-  Done                    echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM

BUT:

$ echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM
24366159785618
$ echo $RANDOM$RANDOM$RANDOM
194211696721283



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2-18

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Comment 1 Tomas Janousek 2007-11-06 18:04:28 UTC

(just a note for someone reading this bug in the future:
In order to reproduce it, you have to execute "echo $RANDOM" (without &) at
least once before trying this.)

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2007-11-29 01:32:39 UTC

bash-3.2-19.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update bash'

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-11-29 01:37:10 UTC

bash-3.2-19.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update bash'

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-11 22:04:23 UTC

bash-3.2-19.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-01-11 22:04:58 UTC

bash-3.2-19.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.