Generating random values...

[Xylock]

I'm having trouble generating random values using gcc.

I've tried rand(), but it keeps giving me segmentation faults.

I did read that rand() is not advised in a multi-threading environment, and also somewhere else that the linux kernel could generate random numbers.

Anyone able to give me some advise on how to achieve this? This has always stumped me in C I dont really want to have to write my own (copy someone elses) generator, lol, I'd rather use an existing one

[sinical]

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/bin/bash echo $RANDOM 

How are you calling it in C though.. I know that something along the lines of

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x = rand()  %  y; 

While it does compile no errors will cause issues

[Optional]

Make sure you're seeding the random number generator by calling srand() first.

srand(time(NULL));