[perl #63238] op/srand.t #4 failure, all other tests succeed

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This is a bug report for perl from jpierce@cpan.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.


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Fresh build of 5.10.0 on Centos 5 under Xen, all tests pass except
srand #4 (fails to initialize) and fork #20; but the latter seems
to be a symptom of the former, through bug #33749.

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0:

Configured by root at Sat Feb 14 13:12:21 PST 2009.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.3, archname=x86_64-linux
    uname='linux vm10.myvpshost.com 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.028stab059.3 #1 smp wed oct 15 13:33:44 msd 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl/5_10'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64 /usr/local/lib64
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.5'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.10.0:
    /opt/perl/5_10/lib/5.10.0/x86_64-linux
    /opt/perl/5_10/lib/5.10.0
    /opt/perl/lib/x86_64-linux
    /opt/perl/lib
    .

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Environment for perl 5.10.0:
    HOME=/home/belg4mit
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/tcsh

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