Erik,
I was thinking of doing this:
export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$(awk 'BEGIN { srand(); print int(rand() * 32767 %
255 + 1) }')
Or would you prefer using 'date'?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle...@mega-nerd.com>wrote:
> Jesse Weinstein wrote:
>
> > The subject line mostly says it all, but for reference, having #!/bin/sh
> causes the following error:
> >
> > arithmetic expression: expecting primary: " % 255 + 1"
>
> Arithmetic support is actually not the issue, rather its that dash/sh
> doesn't support $RANDOM. The solution to this is to replace $RANDOM
> with $(date +%N) which is obviouslsy not all that random, but which
> is close enough to random for this usage.
>
> Since Jaren is in the process of making the scripts POSIX shell
> compliant, I think swicthing to bash is a bad idea :-).
>
> I was going to do the $RANDOM to $(date +%N) conversion after Jaren's
> POSIX patches were all applied.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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