JRAND48(3POSIX)

✨ PROLOG ✨

okay so bestie, real talk before we even get into it: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. 💅

That means the Linux implementation of this interface might do its own little thing and not match exactly — so if you're on Linux, go peek at the corresponding Linux manual page for the actual tea. 🫖

And lowkey the biggest plot twist: this interface might not be implemented on Linux at all. 😭 Not every icon makes it to every platform, iykyk.

🌸 NAME 🌸

jrand48 — generate a uniformly distributed pseudo-random long signed integer 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

long jrand48(unsigned short xsubi[3]);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

not me about to explain this one... okay so jrand48 is out here doing its thing, and the actual deets live over at drand48(). Refer to drand48(), bestie. that's the main character of this whole family. 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay legal bestie moment, we gotta give credit where credit is due, 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. 💜

and if this version ever beefs with the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard? the original is the referee document. periodt. the original always wins. 🏆

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

Any typographical or formatting errors that show up in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format — not the original's fault, fr fr. 🙈 To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole vibe, bestie — this page came to you courtesy of IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it lives under the name JRAND48(3POSIX). slay, go forth and randomise responsibly 💅🌈⭐