Jaren Stangret wrote: > 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'?
Your's is probably better and this is probably an improvement: awk 'BEGIN { srand(); print int(rand() * 255 + 1) }' Awk's rand seems to be seeded by the current epoch seconds, but in this case that doesn't matter. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev