SETSTATE(3POSIX)

🦋 SETSTATE — the setstate(3POSIX) page, bestie edition 🦋

okay so quick vibe check before we even start: this is the SETSTATE(3POSIX) page from the POSIX Programmer's Manual. yes, the whole manual. and it comes with a little warning label, so let's read it together 🫶

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay so real talk first, because this part matters:

• This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
• The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, pls go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the details of Linux behavior. fr fr, don't skip that.
• Or… the interface may not be implemented on Linux <em>at all</em>. not me finding that out the hard way 😭

✨ NAME ✨

setstate — switch pseudo-random number generator state arrays 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

char *setstate(char *state);

literally that's the whole thing. short king of a synopsis.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Refer to initstate().

that's it. that's the description. she's giving "go read the other page, this one's a sequel" 👑

Not a drill: if you actually want to know what this does, the initstate() page is where the lore lives. this page is just pointing at it with both hands.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so the legal bit, and we're keeping every word because rules are rules:

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!! no cap, every crumb of it 🍓

cute lil sign-off to close the group chat: this one's from IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — and the page id is SETSTATE(3POSIX). bye bestie, go read initstate() 💜