shuf: fix random line selection. Closes 9971
""" For example, given input file: foo bar baz after shuffling the input file, foo will never end up back on the first line. This came to light when I ran into a use-case where someone was selecting a random line from a file using shuf | head -n 1, and the results on busybox were showing a statistical anomaly (as in, the first line would never ever be picked) vs the same process running on environments that had gnu coreutils installed. On line https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/coreutils/shuf.c#n56 it uses r %= i, which will result in 0 <= r < i, while the algorithm specifies 0 <= r <= i. """ Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void shuffle_lines(char **lines, unsigned numlines)
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/* RAND_MAX can be as small as 32767 */
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if (i > RAND_MAX)
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r ^= rand() << 15;
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r %= i;
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r %= i + 1;
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tmp = lines[i];
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lines[i] = lines[r];
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lines[r] = tmp;
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