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Commit 4fef2e5e authored by Nils Schneider's avatar Nils Schneider
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Merge pull request #7 from FreifunkBremen/master

gluon-autoupdater: get random number from /dev/urandom
parents 086efed4 7cdf3708
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......@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ BRANCH=$(uci get autoupdater.settings.branch)
PROBABILITY=$(uci get autoupdater.${BRANCH}.probability)
if test "a$1" != "a-f"; then
echo | awk "END{srand();exit rand() > $PROBABILITY}"
# get one random byte from /dev/urandom, convert it to decimal and check
# against update_probability*255
hexdump -n1 -e '/1 "%d"' /dev/urandom | awk "{exit \$1 > $PROBABILITY * 255}"
if test $? -ne 0; then
echo "No autoupdate this time. Use -f to override"
exit 0
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