Actually I've checked output for perl -V :
$ perl -V | grep SEED PERL_HASH_SEED="-1"
But setting the PERL_HASH_SEED env variable has no effect at all. Using this script :
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Hash::Util qw(hash_seed); my %t=qw( a A b B c C d D e E f F ); print hash_seed() . "\n"; print join( '', %t) ."\n";
I change the PERL_HASH_SEED, the hash_seed differs from run to run, but the hash order remains the same:
$ for i in -1 0 1 42 garbage; do export PERL_HASH_SEED=$i; for j in 1 +2 3; do perl test.pl; done; done 3657515954 eEcCaAbBdDfF 3070542819 eEcCaAbBdDfF 185686570 eEcCaAbBdDfF 0 eEcCaAbBdDfF 0 eEcCaAbBdDfF 0 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1 eEcCaAbBdDfF 42 eEcCaAbBdDfF 42 eEcCaAbBdDfF 42 eEcCaAbBdDfF 3381895560 eEcCaAbBdDfF 2632524130 eEcCaAbBdDfF 1729561246 eEcCaAbBdDfF
The hash seed has no effect, that sucks!

In reply to Re^4: Weird hash order behaviour on several RedHat releases. by wazoox
in thread Weird hash order behaviour on several RedHat releases. by wazoox

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