C: Reading file with a starting point
- by Shinka
A simple question but I can't find the answer in my book. I want to read a binary file to seed a random number generator, but I don't want to seed my generator with the same seed each time I call the function, so I will need to keep a variable for my position in the file (not a problem) and I would need to know how to read a file starting a specific point in the file (no idea how). The code:
void rng_init(RNG* rng) {
// ...
FILE *input = fopen("random.bin", "rb");
unsigned int seed[32];
fread(seed, sizeof(unsigned int), 32, input);
// seed 'rng'...
fclose(input);
}
