D2237: contrib: ban $RANDOM using check-code

[durin42 (Augie Fackler)]

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REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2237

AFFECTED FILES
  contrib/check-code.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/contrib/check-code.py b/contrib/check-code.py
--- a/contrib/check-code.py
+++ b/contrib/check-code.py
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@
     (r'grep.* -[ABC]', "don't use grep's context flags"),
     (r'find.*-printf',
      "don't use 'find -printf', it doesn't exist on BSD find(1)"),
+    (r'\$RANDOM ', "don't use bash-only $RANDOM to generate random values"),
   ],
   # warnings
   [



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