Package: zsh
Version: 4.2.6-1
Severity: normal

in this command:
while true;do echo `expr $RANDOM`;done
zsh interprets `expr $RANDOM` as a constant.

if "echo `expr $RANDOM`" is entered on commandline, it behaves the same
way -- returning a constant instead of random number.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages zsh depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.4.65     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages zsh recommends:
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libpcre3                      6.4-1.1    Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

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