SRAND48(3P)

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay so welcome to the SRAND48(3P) page, bestie — this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. not me giving you the heads-up before you get your hopes up 💀✨.

✨ NAME ✨

srand48 — seed the uniformly distributed double-precision pseudo-random number generator. yes bestie, that's the whole name, and it's giving main character energy 👑.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <stdlib.h>

void srand48(long seedval);

that's literally it: void return, one long seedval, no cap. 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Refer to drand48().

okay so this page is lowkey short on purpose: the description says refer to drand48(). that's the whole assignment, periodt. go read drand48() for the actual deets, iykyk 💖.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

legal bestie moment, here's the full copyright tea:

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 .

source/version: IEEE/The Open Group. date: 2017. page: SRAND48(3P). bye bestie, stay seeded and slay 💖✨