On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:53:20AM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John David Anglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> John> The following patch adds LINENO and RANDOM to shell variables
> John> that change in actest.m4.
>
> Thanks, applied. Next time, please, include a ChangeLog.
>
> What shell changes RANDOM? Bash and zsh both support it, but it
> changes only when read (and fortunately `set' does not read the vars :).
/bin/sh under IRIX 6.5
# njoly@claudel [~]> cat foo.sh
#! /bin/sh
set > foo1
set > foo2
diff foo1 foo2
# njoly@claudel [~]> /bin/sh foo.sh
12c12
< LINENO=3
---
> LINENO=4
30c30
< RANDOM=3965
---
> RANDOM=25162
41c41
< _=/bin/sh
---
> _=set
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Nicolas Joly
Informatique Scientifique
Institut Pasteur, Paris.
