NRAND48(3POSIX)

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay bestie, real talk before we even get into it 💅 this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. and here's the tea: the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior 🫶. also possible? the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. so like. vibe check your platform first, no cap 😭

✨ NAME ✨

nrand48 — generate uniformly distributed pseudo-random non-negative long integers 🎲✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <stdlib.h>

long nrand48(unsigned short xsubi[3]);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

girl, this is a refer situation 💀 — go read drand48(). that's it. that's the description. she said "iykyk" and pointed you at her sister page 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legal era, let's get into it 🎀

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 — like, she's the final boss, periodt. 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 . (not me being the one to tell you where to snitch on the typos 🙈)

🌈 and that's the whole page, bestie!! short and iconic, it's giving minimalism 💅

IEEE/The Open Group · 2017 · NRAND48(3POSIX) — mwah, stan the Open Group, bye bye 🫶✨💖