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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Multi-channel rand()
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:
> On 12/26/2018 08:48 AM, Bart wrote:
>> This doesn't seem too hard, but it's obviously not in the standard
>> library (which AFAIK only has rand()). Example:
>
> Seems to be in mine...
>
>
> RANDOM(3)              Linux Programmer's Manual              RANDOM(3)
>
> NAME
>         random, srandom, initstate, setstate - random number generator
>
> SYNOPSIS
>         #include <stdlib.h>
>
>         long int random(void);
>
>         void srandom(unsigned int seed);

Scroll down, and you'll see this:

    CONFORMING TO
           POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BS

It's defined by POSIX, but not by ISO C (which is what Bart
presumably meant by "standard library").

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