RANDOM not random under bash 2.04.11(1)-release

[Todd A. Jacobs]

This problem was detected on a Pentium III running Red Hat Linux
2.2.19-7.0.8 and bash 2.04.11(1)-release.

The following command *always* returns values 0..3 in numerical order, no
matter how many times it's called:

        echo $(( $RANDOM % 4 ))

While the entrance into the series isn't always 0, once the loop has been
started, the numbers *always* follow in numerical sequence.

This also holds true for at least one other mod value: 2, which will
always return 0 and 1, in sequence.

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