SRAND(3POSIX)

💫 PROLOG 💫

okay bestie, real talk before we even start:

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the full tea on Linux behavior), or honestly? The interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀

🌸 NAME 🌸

srand — pseudo-random number generator

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <stdlib.h>

void srand(unsigned seed);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Refer to rand().

That's it. That's the whole description. The lore lives over in rand(), bestie — this page is just the doorway, and the doorway is iconic but very short. 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legally I have to tell you this and I'm gonna tell you it with my whole chest:

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. (Translation: if these two ever beef, the original wins. No cap.)

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 messenger for a whole copyright notice 💅 but the facts are the facts and I keep every single one of them.

and that's the page, babe 🦋 this one came to you from IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and it lives under the name SRAND(3POSIX). slay, go seed something. ✨🎀