The Old New Thing

As random as I wanna be: Why cmd.exe's %RANDOM% isn't so random

June 17, 2010 Jun 17, 2010 06/17/10

Raymond Chen

Somebody on my team reported that a particular script in our project's build process would fail with bizarre output maybe once in fifty tries. This script was run from a , and the result was a failed build. Rerunning make fixed the problem, but that's not much consolation when the build lab encounters it approximately every other day. The ...