The following reply was made to PR pkg/34695; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Mike M. Volokhov" <mishka@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/34695
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:16:44 +0300

 The single objection I've seen is that awk-based randomization logic
 might not work with non NetBSD awks (for example, on Solaris). So, can
 anybody confirm that the following script is workable on non NetBSD
 platform?
 
 {
         srand(systime());
         n = split($0, words);
         for (i = n; i > 0; i--) {
                 ir = int(rand() * i + 1);
                 t = words[i];
                 words[i] = words[ir];
                 words[ir] = t;
                 print words[i];
         }
 }
 
 Usage:
 echo "one two three four five six seven eight nine ten" | awk -f random.awk
 
 --
 Mishka.