MRAND48(3POSIX)

🦋 MRAND48(3POSIX) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual, but make it cute 🦋

okay bestie, gather round, because we're doing a whole manual page and it's short and sweet 💖 this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and the title up top is mrand48 in section 3POSIX. iconic. no notes.

✨ PROLOG ✨ (the fine print, but make it fashion)

so like, real talk first 💅 this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. that's the whole vibe.

⚠️ but heads up: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so pls go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior), or — plot twist — the interface may not even be implemented on Linux at all. 😭 not every function gets to be everywhere, and that's just the way it is.

🌸 NAME 🌸

mrand48 — generate uniformly distributed pseudo-random signed long integers 💫

like, it makes random numbers. signed long ones. uniformly distributed ones. that's the girlboss job description. 👑

⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

okay so here's the summoning ritual, copy it exactly bestie:

#include <stdlib.h>

long mrand48(void);

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Refer to drand48().</purgle>

wait let me say that properly:

Refer to drand48().

yeah. that's it. that's the whole description. this page is the lowkey little sister of drand48(), and all the actual lore lives over there. go read it, iykyk 🫶

🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀 (the legal slay)

okay so this part is not mine to vibe-ify away, so here it is, all of it, fr fr:

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 page!! IEEE/The Open Group dropped this in 2017, and the footer tag was literally just MRAND48(3POSIX) again, so consider this my little sign-off: IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, MRAND48(3POSIX) ✨ stay random, stay uniform, stay slaying 💖🦋🎀