RANDOM(3P)

💖 RANDOM(3P) — bestie edition 💖

okay so we're in the POSIX Programmer's Manual rn, and this little cutie is called random. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay bestie, real talk before anything else: 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 for the details, fr), or honestly the interface might just not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀 no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

random — generate pseudo-random number 🎲✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <stdlib.h>

long random(void);

she's simple, she's clean, she's iconic 👑

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Refer to initstate().

(yeah that's it. that's the whole vibe. the real tea lives in initstate(), so go read that one bestie 🫶)

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

okay so the legal bit, but make it cute:

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 .

not the typo disclaimer being the most honest part of the whole page 😭 if you spot a formatting glitch, it's a conversion-era casualty, not a you problem. report it at that link above, slay 💖

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨ this one's brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — RANDOM(3P), out. 💜🌸