MRAND48(3P)

📦 version 2017a, in alpine 3.22, alpine 3.23, alpine 3.24, arch rolling, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0

💖 MRAND48 — the POSIX girlie pops off 💖

okay so bestie, we're reading the POSIX Programmer's Manual page for mrand48(3P) and honestly? it's short but it's iconic. let's get into it ✨

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Real talk before we start: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior. OR, plot twist, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈 So vibe check your platform first, fr fr.

✨ NAME ✨

mrand48 — generate uniformly distributed pseudo-random signed long integers

it's giving "random but make it long and signed" 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

long mrand48(void);

look at her. no arguments. no drama. just a long and a dream. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the thing — this page is literally just a pointer, bestie. Refer to drand48().

no cap, that's the whole description. the entire lore lives over in drand48(). go read that one, she's the main character. 🫶

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. periodt. the original stays undefeated. 👑

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 one's from the IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — so like, shoutout to them for the lore, and shoutout to you for reading all the way to the bottom. slay. 💅

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