LCONG48(3P)

💖 LCONG48(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, welcome to lcong48(3P), straight out of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. buckle up, it's short but it's mighty ✨

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

real talk before we even start: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so like, go check the corresponding Linux manual page if you need the deets on Linux behavior. orrrr the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. it's giving "maybe, maybe not" 🙈

🎀 NAME 🎀

lcong48 — seed a uniformly distributed pseudo-random signed long integer generator

yes girl, it seeds a uniformly distributed pseudo-random signed long integer generator. that's the whole job. slay 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <stdlib.h>

void lcong48(unsigned short param[7]);

look at that signature. seven unsigned shorts. param[7]. no return value, no drama, just vibes ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

refer to drand48().

that's it. that's the description. the whole thing. she's lowkey mysterious, highkey efficient. if you want the actual tea, go read drand48() 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legally we have to do this part and honestly it's iconic in its own way:

portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

and the important part, no cap: in the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. so if something looks off, the original wins. periodt.

the original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

also, any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. so like, not the original's fault, it's the conversion's fault 😭 to report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 thanks for reading all the way through, you're literally the main character. this lil number was brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, under the manual name LCONG48(3P) 💜🧚‍♀️