LRAND48(3P)

💖 LRAND48(3P) — ok bestie, it's giving random numbers 💖

hey girl hey!! welcome to the LRAND48(3P) page from the POSIX Programmer's Manual. yes, that's the manual name, it's in the title, we're all caught up 🫶

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay so, real talk before we get into it:

• This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
• The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — like, consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details on Linux behavior, fr fr.
• Or the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀 not me finding that out the hard way.

✨ NAME ✨

lrand48 — generate uniformly distributed pseudo-random non-negative long integers 🎲

like... it makes random numbers. non-negative ones. longs. uniform. that's the vibe. 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

long lrand48(void);

no arguments bestie, she takes nothing, she gives everything 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to drand48().

that's it. that's the whole description. she's short, she's iconic, she knows her sisters will do the talking for her. go read drand48() 🌈

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

okay this part is the legal tea and we are not skipping it, so sit down and sip ☕

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.

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. 🏆 like, that's the final boss, that's the one that decides. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

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. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page bestie!! this little baddie was brought to you by IEEE and The Open Group, dated 2017, and filed under LRAND48(3P) in the POSIX Programmer's Manual. 🎀✨ slay, go forth, and generate some non-negative long integers responsibly 💖🦋👑