SRANDOM(3POSIX)

💖 SRANDOM — ok bestie, let's talk seeding 💖

So this lil page is SRANDOM(3POSIX) from the POSIX Programmer's Manual, and I'm gonna be so real with you: it is short. Like, main-character-with-three-lines-of-dialogue short. But every word matters, so let's go 🫶

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Okay so before anything else, the important disclaimer energy:

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, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the tea on Linux behavior. Or, plot twist, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all. Vibe check your platform first, bestie 😭

✨ NAME ✨

srandom — seed pseudo-random number generator

Like, that's the whole job. She seeds. That's it. Iconic, honestly 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

void srandom(unsigned seed);

That's the whole thing. Include the header, call the function, hand her an unsigned called seed. Slay 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to initstate().

...and that's genuinely it. Not me getting all excited for a description and getting sent to a different manpage 🙈 The whole lore lives over in initstate(), so if you want the full story, that's where you're headed. Go on, go read it, I'll wait 💜

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Okay now the serious-but-necessary part, and I'm keeping every single word because legal stuff does not get the vibe treatment 💀

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: the real one wins, always.)

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 whole page, bestie ✨ brought to you by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017 — SRANDOM(3POSIX), out. 🎀 go seed something responsibly 🦋💖