SEED48(3P)

🌸 SEED48(3P) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual one 💖

okay bestie, real talk: this page lives inside the POSIX Programmer's Manual. ✨

PROLOG 🫶

Heads up, queen. This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior — or, plot twist, the interface might not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀

✨ NAME ✨

seed48 — seed a uniformly distributed pseudo-random non-negative long integer generator

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

unsigned short *seed48(unsigned short seed16v[3]);

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Refer to drand48(). that's it, that's the whole vibe. go read that one, bestie, it's giving "everything you need is over there". 🦋

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legally I have to say all of this and I'm saying all of it, no cap:

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, periodt. 💜 IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, SEED48(3P) — mwah, love u, go seed responsibly. 🍓🧚