NRAND48(3P)

👑 NRAND48(3P) — POSIX Programmer's Manual 💖

okay bestie, quick heads up: this one's from the POSIX Programmer's Manual (that's the 3P in nrand48(3P), iykyk), so let's get into it 💅

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

so before we even start, real talk: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so like, consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details on Linux behavior — or honestly, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈 It's giving "check your local listings."

✨ NAME ✨

nrand48 — generate uniformly distributed pseudo-random non-negative long integers 🎲

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <stdlib.h>

long nrand48(unsigned short xsubi[3]);

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so the whole description here is literally just: refer to drand48(). That's it. That's the whole vibe. ✨ Go read that one, bestie, this page is the little sister 🫶

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

ngl this part is the legal girlies talking, but we keep every word, periodt:

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. 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 icon was brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it lives at the very bottom of every page as NRAND48(3P) 🎀✨ mwah, go forth and generate your non-negative long integers 💖🌈