Bug 4574

Summary:	sh: $RANDOM is not updated when used in pipes
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	potzcoden
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.15.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description potzcoden 2011-12-02 12:27:05 UTC

When using $RANDOM in the builtin sh, it is not set to a new value after use in a pipe expression:

# echo $RANDOM
26470
# echo $RANDOM
27347
# echo $RANDOM
32608
# echo|echo $RANDOM
11420
# echo|echo $RANDOM
11420
# echo|echo $RANDOM
11420

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2011-12-05 01:57:11 UTC

Fixed sometime ago.

I re-checked and latest (1.19.3) release does not have this bug.