SRANDOM(3P)

🌸 SRANDOM(3P) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual glow-up 🌸

okay bestie, so this whole thing lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and honestly? she's giving standards queen energy. 💅

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✨ PROLOG ✨

so like, real talk before we even get into it: this page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — and if you wanna know what Linux is actually doing, you gotta go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior. OR. plot twist. 🫢 the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. so yeah. vibe check before you build. 💀

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👑 NAME 👑

srandom — seed pseudo-random number generator

that's it. that's the whole job. she seeds the pseudo-random number generator. iconic behavior, no notes. 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

void srandom(unsigned seed);

look at her. one include, one function, one unsigned seed. minimalist. main character. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so this is the part where the manpage goes 👉 Refer to initstate().

that's literally it. that's the whole description. she said "not my job to explain, go read initstate()" and honestly? respect. go read initstate(), bestie. she's the one with the lore. 📖💫

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🦋 COPYRIGHT 🦋

okay now the serious-but-still-cute part, because we do NOT skip the fine print in this house 🫶

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.

⚠️ and listen — 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. she's the final boss. no arguing. 👑

The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Also, 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 .

so like. if something looks cursed in here, blame the conversion, not the standard. 💀🙈

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🌟 sign-off 🌟

and that's the page, bestie!! brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, and yes the manual title up top is SRANDOM(3P) in case you forgot where you were. now go forth and seed responsibly. 💜🧚🍓

void srandom(unsigned seed); — periodt. 💅