SRAND48(3POSIX)

💖 SRAND48 💖 — POSIX Programmer's Manual girlie edition ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the SRAND48(3POSIX) page, straight out of the POSIX Programmer's Manual 💅 this one's short and sweet, no cap.

🚨 PROLOG (read this first, fr fr) 🚨

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

so like… Linux might do its own thing here, or straight up not have this at all 😭 always check the Linux page, bestie. the vibe check matters.

✨ NAME ✨

srand48 — seed the uniformly distributed double-precision pseudo-random number generator 🎲🌸

it's giving "plant the seed and watch the randomness grow" energy. literally.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

void srand48(long seedval);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to drand48().

that's it. that's the whole description. the POSIX girlies said "go read the other one" and honestly? iconic. go look at drand48() for the full tea ☕✨

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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 .

translation: if this page and the official Standard ever beef, the Standard wins. periodt. 💯

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 .

typos? not the original's fault, blame the conversion glow-up 🙈 report them at the link above, bestie.

and that's the whole page!! 🫶 brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, page SRAND48(3POSIX) — stay random, stay seeded, ily bye 💖✨🎀