Bug 344411 - $RANDOM stays the same when job executed in the background
Summary: $RANDOM stays the same when job executed in the background
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: bash
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Janousek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-21 12:36 UTC by Sami Farin
Modified: 2008-01-11 22:04 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 3.2-19.fc7
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-01-11 22:04:35 UTC
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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 &
24366159785618
[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.


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